This speaking lesson is built on the video “30-Days Slow English — Day 4: Phone Call Conversation ☎️”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: hear, meet, clock, busy. This video has 72 sentences and 304 words to shadow. The speech runs for 8:44. 86% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start. 27 of its 72 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.

Key vocabulary in this video

12 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
clock noun	/klɑk/	A chronometer, an instrument that measures time, particularly the time of day.
relax verb	/ɹɪˈlæks/	To make something loose.
café noun	/ˌkæˈfeɪ/	A coffee shop; an establishment selling coffee and sometimes other non-alcoholic beverages, simple meals or snacks, with a facility to consume them on the…
appointment noun	/əˈpɔɪnt.mɛnt/	The act of appointing a person to hold an office or to have a position of trust.
signal noun	/ˈsɪɡnəl/	A sequence of states representing an encoded message in a communication channel.
afternoon noun	/ˌæf.tɚˈnun/	The part of the day from noon or lunchtime until sunset, evening, or suppertime or 6pm.
minute noun	/ˈmɪnɪt/	A unit of time which is one sixtieth of an hour (sixty seconds).
yesterday noun	/ˈjɛstɹdeɪ/	The day immediately before today; one day ago.
glad adjective	/ɡlæd/	Pleased; happy; gratified.
wonderful adjective	/ˈwʌndəfl̩/	Tending to excite wonder; surprising, extraordinary.
suggest verb	/sə(ɡ)ˈd͡ʒɛst/	To imply but stop short of explicitly stating (something).
yours	/jɔɹz/	That or those belonging to you; the possessive second-person singular pronoun used without a following noun.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
go ahead verb	/ˌɡoʊ əˈhɛd/	To proceed with; to begin.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

I'm good, how about you?
Are you free this afternoon?
Would you like to meet?
What time should we meet?
Sorry, what did you say?

ไวยากรณ์ในวิดีโอนี้

โครงสร้างที่ผู้พูดใช้บ่อยที่สุด พร้อมคำพูดจริงจากวิดีโอ:

โครงสร้าง	ในวิดีโอ
คำแนะนำด้วย “should” should + กริยา — บอกสิ่งที่ควรทำ	should we meet
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — สิ่งที่กำลังเกิดขึ้นตอนนี้หรือช่วงนี้	are you doing · They're doing
อนาคตด้วย “will” will + กริยา — การตัดสินใจ คำสัญญา หรือการคาดการณ์	I'll meet

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 15 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, I'll, they're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

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 clock, relax, café.

เทคนิค Shadowing คืออะไร?

Shadowing เป็นเทคนิคการเรียนรู้ภาษาที่ได้รับการรับรองทางวิทยาศาสตร์ พัฒนาขึ้นสำหรับการฝึกนักแปลมืออาชีพ วิธีการนี้เรียบง่ายแต่ทรงพลัง: คุณฟังเสียงภาษาอังกฤษจากเจ้าของภาษาและพูดตามทันที — เหมือนเงาที่ตามผู้พูดด้วยช่วงเวลาห่าง 1-2 วินาที การวิจัยแสดงว่าเทคนิคนี้ปรับปรุงความแม่นยำในการออกเสียง ทำนองเสียง จังหวะ การเชื่อมเสียง การฟังเข้าใจ และความคล่องแคล่วในการพูดได้อย่างมีนัยสำคัญ

เทคนิค shadowing: อ่านคู่มือฉบับเต็มทีละขั้นตอน →

ฝึกพูดภาษาอังกฤษด้วยเทคนิค Shadowing จากวิดีโอ: 30-Days Slow English — Day 4: Phone Call Conversation ☎️

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