Shadowing Practice: Viggo Mortensen on fear, ignorance and prejudice and consumerism | ScreenSlam Exclusive - Learn English Speaking with Video

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I think it's just a question of educating yourself or hopefully for children, the parents, educate them to not be afraid of what's different.
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Because a lot of the problems we have in the world
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and these social political divisions have to do with ignorance
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and ignorance breeds fear and mistrust and prejudice and I think that's important.
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So I've been lucky that I've always been traveling and exposed to different cultures.
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I like it.
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I have for a long time thought that it's always more important how you are than where you are.
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There's that consumer mentality that the way we've set up our societies now,
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now it's for a long time you know since all the 20th century and into this one
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it's how much can you spend
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and it's always in the news it's like spending is down people aren't buying all this crap
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and we're worried about it
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because it affects the economy well we have to rethink things
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we can't keep doing this forever just like environmentally we can't keep doing this we have to rethink
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how much do you need?
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How much you need to be happy and to just live life.
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Life is short and I think more focus should be on health care and how you feel, not how much you own.
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If everybody has enough to get by, then they can focus more on what's important,
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on their relationship with people, their relationships to themselves.

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You're practicing English with "Viggo Mortensen on fear, ignorance and prejudice and consumerism | ScreenSlam Exclusive" using the Shadowing technique — a method originally developed for professional interpreter training.

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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.