Do This One Exercise Daily to Improve Your English | Improve Your Speaking Skills at Home

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English with Veronika Mark


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hello guys and welcome back to my YouTube  channel in this video I wanted to tell you 
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about one exercise you can do daily to improve  your English just one simple exercise I know that  
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right now every time you go on YouTube there are  so many videos teaching you guys English teaching  
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you guys the correct pronunciation new words and  grammar while I think it's absolutely amazing  
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that nowadays we have so many resources I also  understand that sometimes it feels intimidating  
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you just have so many videos and you don't know  which one to choose and when you don't have time  
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when you only need one exercise one thing to  do every single day and improve your English  
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you have to try this one it's called shadowing  the shadowing technique is very simple in fact  
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it's actually too simple shadowing practically  means to copy something in English this means to  
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listen to someone and then copy everything they're  saying copy their pronunciation and intonation so  
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the first thing we're gonna do guys is to find the  video we want to Shadow so again guys it has to  
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be short it has to be done by a native speaker so  native speakers have to be talking there and also  
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you have to like it and that's it these three  rules I found an amazing short movie on YouTube  
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called posted it's only seven minutes long and the  conversation is actually only five minutes long  
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and it's a great example of casual informal speech  and I know what you're all probably thinking about  
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Veronica how do we find this website where we  can find all of the videos we can Shadow and  
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then improve our English this way and I'm gonna  tell you guys right now this website is called  
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busu busu is a language learning platform  connecting over 120 million users across the  
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world they provide compact lessons from experts  and they connect you with a community of native  
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speakers to ensure that you master all the  vocabulary and you know which words to use  
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and how to use them with boo so you can learn up  to 13 languages and English is certainly one of  
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them I know that for a lot of you guys finding  good videos good videos to learn English with  
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might be a struggle and right now if you want a  shadow if you want to improve your pronunciation  
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in English and start working on your accent  this is where busu can really help you they  
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break down information into small lessons to  improve your grammar vocabulary listening and  
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speaking skills there are two premium features  in boo suit that I absolutely love the first  
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one is called your personalized study plan it can  help you stay motivated and achieve more than you  
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thought was possible because basically this plan  breaks down your lesson your studying into good  
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chunks it reminds you when to study and how long  to study for and it lets you set realistic goals  
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and the second feature that I love is learning  English or Spanish or any other language with  
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the community of native speakers there is often  this problem of not being able to check if native  
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speakers actually use this word if people actually  use all of these grammar rules in real life and  
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this is where their Community can really help  you you can exchange pronunciation and grammar  
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tips and get feedback from native speakers so if  you want to unlock all the premium features for  
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seven days completely for free make sure to use  my links below and check out busu for yourself  
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and now guys let's go back to the video video  and continue talking about shadowing so let's  
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begin I have my computer right here I'm gonna  turn this video on and we're gonna start [Music]  
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I think it's kind of ridiculous you're not  sitting down I think it's kind of ridiculous  
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you're not sitting down so the most important  aspect of shadowing is you have to try to copy  
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them you have to try to speak as fast as they are  and they are speaking fast because they're native  
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speakers if it doesn't work at first do it again  like replay the same moment and say I think it's  
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kind of ridiculous you're not sitting down right  try to speak as fast as they are speaking but here  
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guys also what's very important is notice all the  little pronunciation tricks are doing instead of  
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saying kind of she said kinda I think it's kind  of ridiculous I think it's kind of ridiculous  
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oh I don't I don't mind standing well there's  plenty of room oh well I don't mind standing  
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the room and I'm not well there's plenty of room  no here guys see how she said the word plenty she  
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didn't say plenty of room she said plenty  of room there is plenty of room no so yeah  
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as you can see this is how I will approach this  video I'm gonna be watching it kind of sentence  
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by sentence trying to Shadow them so repeat  everything they're saying but also notice those  
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pronunciation tricks I'm not intimidating and  I'm not intimidating uh yeah uh yeah it's true
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I have to ask I have to ask what's  in the box what's in the box  
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it's um it's um it's it's  nothing it's uh it's nothing  
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well you carry it like it's something  well you carry it like it's something
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sorry it's none of my business sorry it's none  of my business how did she say the word none  
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of my business again guys she didn't say it's  none of my business she said it's none of my  
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business none of my business as you can notice  guys it often happens to the word of especially  
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when people are speaking fast they almost never  say of they just say uh or something like this  
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they basically merge this word with a previous  word so she said Nana it's none of my business  
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I guess I was just intrigued  I guess it was just intrigued
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uh it's uh picture frames staplers a stapler  paper clips and paper clips and pans and a  
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stack of Post-its pens and a stack of Post-its  here we can notice how he's saying the word  
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and it's very common in English to drop the  last D sound and just say pants and a stack  
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of Post-its panzen and that's it not a  human head then not a human head then  
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uh no it's not a human head uh no it's not a human  head I'm Clara by the way I'm Clara by the way and  
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guys I encourage you to do the same thing the same  thing I am doing this video is just an example  
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for you an example of one daily exercise you can  do every single day please pause this video and  
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repeat all of those phrases after them after me  however you like it hi hi hi sorry uh I'm Elroy
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so Elroy so Elroy sorry you lost your job sorry  you lost your job here very interesting how she  
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combines lost and your she kind of says lost  your job sure she adds this cheer sound sorry  
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you lost your job and instead of saying your  job she kind of just says yeah and that's it  
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what no oh what no because of the Box  because of the Box no I didn't no I  
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didn't lose my job I didn't lose my job oh well  congratulations then oh whoa congratulations then  
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why why oh for not losing your job for not losing  your job okay okay right right thanks thanks um
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this is my mom's stuff this is my mom's  stuff it was it was she died she died she  
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um she worked up at the insurance company  she worked up at the insurance company and  
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guys as you can see he's a native speaker but  right now he's speaking pretty slowly I mean  
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slower than before because he's anxious  he's nervous his mom just passed away  
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obviously he's extremely sad so he's making  pauses and he is constantly saying the word  
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um up the street up the street yeah she worked  there for a long time yeah she worked there for  
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a long time a really long time it really when  I was in high school I'd get up for school in  
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the morning when I was in high school I'd get  up for school in the morning she'd already be  
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gone and she'd already be gone here guys very  interesting how she says the word wood I would  
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get up for school and she would already be gone  instead of saying the whole ward he just says I'd  
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I'd get up for school in the morning and should  already be gone but um we leave these little
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on the door I'm just kind of nice  again guys instead of saying kind  
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of he just says kinda I don't know why I'm  telling you any of this I don't know I'm
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just to be honest she sounds amazing she  sounds amazing yeah she is yeah she is she was  
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her and I were really different her and I were  really different though well herself she was so  
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nice to everyone so so nice to everyone I mean  honestly half the time I can't I mean honestly  
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half the time I can't stand people but  she could find something nice to say about  
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pretty much anyone but she could have had  something nice to say about pretty much anyone  
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but you could do that well you could do  that no I can't no I can't seems like you're  
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just waiting for an opportunity seems like  you're just waiting for an opportunity well  
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be nice to this girl you're talking to  right now yeah you might be right about that  
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yeah you might be right about that again guys as  you can see American speech in particular is all  
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about connected speech and this is something that  I always tell you guys I have a whole playlist on  
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my channel here's the link you can find a lot  of videos about the American accent and about  
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the connected speech about the way Americans  connect all their words together so that it  
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sounds Flawless it sounds like one long word  you're right about that could be it could be
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hey Elroy this is my friend Elroy by the way hey  
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it's my friend Elroy poster now bro  posted yeah sure let's go next go  
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nuts just basically means go crazy like go  ahead you know borrow as many as you want
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foreign
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hey Elroy hey Elroy what are you doing what are  
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you doing I wrote a nice shirt how  do you say shirt what do you think
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yeah it's great I mean yeah it's great it  really is a nice shirt it really is a nice shirt  
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come here would you stop throwing stuff with me  please would you stop trying to stop at me please  
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it's your turn it's your turn
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yeah all right yeah yeah what do you got
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oh my God he's gonna write  something nice too nice hopefully
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nice mustache nice mustache  mustache you guys are weird  
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you guys are we don't even know her that well so  you know I didn't even know her that well so do  
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you have anything else to do today all right  do you have anything else to do today Elroy
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[Music]  
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okay guys I'm gonna pause this video right here  because I want you to go and watch this full  
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video it's gonna end in a couple of minutes  and there's no more speaking there but I just  
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want you to you know watch the video and learn  what actually they decide to do because it's  
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really interesting so this is basically an  example of Shadow you can choose any video  
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you want to but again guys the shorter the better  because it does take time especially if there are  
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some words you don't know like maybe for example  the word mustache was a new to you who knows if  
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there are words you don't know try to obviously  memorize them write them down you know any kind  
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of memorization tool you're using but if all the  words are familiar to you it's good too just try  
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to focus all your efforts on the pronunciation so  you guys I think that's it for this video this is  
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basically one exercise you can do every single  day to improve your English because it will  
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help you improve your listening skills as you're  watching something it will help you improve your  
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speaking skills as you're actually speaking  it will help you improve your vocabulary in  
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English because you'll be learning new words  it will help you improve your pronunciation  
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in English because obviously you really  have to focus on the pronunciation here  
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also if you want to dig even deeper and work  on your writing skills you can create some  
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kind of sentences like example sentences with  all the new vocabulary if you want to continue  
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improving your pronunciation in English and  your acts and make sure to check out this  
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video right here because it has all of the  rules of the American English and how people  
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in the United States talk and you guys that's  it for this video If you like this video make  
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sure to give it a thumbs up and subscribe to my  channel and I'll see you guys in my next one bye
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