Shadowing Practice: Zootopia - Judy's Hustle (Tax Evasion) HD - Learn English Speaking with Video

This video has 68 sentences and 408 words to shadow. The speech runs for 3:06. The speaker talks at a steady 131 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. Only 79% 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:

• hustle /ˈhʌsəl/ (verb) — To push someone roughly; to crowd; to jostle.
• bunny /ˈbʌni/ (noun) — A rabbit, especially a juvenile one.
• crack /kɹæk/ (noun) — A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
• steal /stiːl/ (verb) — To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it.
• resource /ɹɪˈzɔːs/ (noun) — Something that one uses to achieve an objective, e.g. raw materials or personnel.
• offense /əˈfɛns/ (noun) — A crime or sin.
• boot /but/ (noun) — A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg.
• stake /steɪk/ (noun) — A piece of wood or other material, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a marker or a support or stay.
• noon /nun/ (noun) — The time of day when the Sun seems to reach its highest point in the sky; solar noon.
• buck /ˈbʌk/ (noun) — A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret, salmonid, shad, skunk and kangaroo.
• borrow /ˈbɑɹ.oʊ/ (verb) — To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.
• maid /meɪd/ (noun) — An adult or adolescent female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant). (In feudal times this could be anyone from a high-ranking assistant to a low-ranking…
• cone /ˈkoʊn/ (noun) — A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line.
• sweetheart /ˈswiːtˌhɑːt/ (noun) — A person who is always very kind.
• fuss /fʌs/ (noun) — Excessive activity, worry, bother, or talk about something.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

• get back to (verb) — Return to (an activity)
• get in (verb) — To get into or inside something, literally or figuratively.
• look at (verb) — To observe or watch.

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 18 contractions and reduced forms, such as you're, don't, gonna. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

• The “sh” and “zh” sounds: evasion /ɪˈveɪʒən/, punishable /ˈpʌnɪʃəbəl/
• Long words — get the stress right: cafeteria /ˌkæ.fə.ˈtɪ(ə).ɹi.ə/, punishable /ˈpʌnɪʃəbəl/

How to practise with this video

1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
2. Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like hustle, bunny, crack.