Shadowing Practice: Eminem rhymes the word orange | 60 Minutes Archive - Learn English Speaking with YouTube

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I've heard you say that you bend the word.
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I've heard you say that you bend the word.
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Yeah, it's just in the enunciation of it.
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Like, people say that, uh, the word orange.
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doesn't rhyme with anything.
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And that kind of pisses me off because I can think of a lot of things that rhyme with orange.
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What rhymes with orange?
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If you're taking the word at face value and you just say orange, nothing is gonna rhyme with it exactly.
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If you enunciate it and you make it like more than one syllable, orange.
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You could say like, I put my Orange, four -inch door hinge in storage.
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and ate porridge with George.
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You just have to figure out the science to breaking down words and try to-- And do you think about this?
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Throughout the day, I mean driving along you think about Rhyming words.
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Yeah, all day.
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I actually drive myself insane with it.
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But it's interesting.
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I mean, for a guy who hated school, who, you know, was in the ninth grade three times, you spend all your time thinking about words.
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I found that no matter how bad I was at school, like, and no matter how low my grades might have been at some times,
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I always was good at English.
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I heard that you used to read the dictionary.
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I just felt like I want to be able to have all these words at my disposal in my vocabulary.
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at all times, whenever I need to pull them out.
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You know, somewhere they'll be stored, like, locked away.
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His words are stored, but they're not exactly locked away.
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He actually keeps them in boxes.
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So you store stuff in just boxes like this?
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Yes.
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Inside are hundreds of scraps of paper, in which he's obsessively scrawled down words and phrases.
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Wait, this is a...
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This is a pad from a hotel in Paris, looks like.
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- Yeah.
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- And you just scribbled that, you have four little words.
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Just scribbled it.
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- Yeah.
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- How do you even read this?
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This is tiny.
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- I know what it says, I guess.
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I don't know, I might use that actually.
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They're not lyrics really, they're just ideas that he collects.

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You're practicing English with "Eminem rhymes the word orange | 60 Minutes Archive" using the Shadowing technique — a method originally developed for professional interpreter training.

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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.