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Shadowing practice: Guillermo at NBA Media Day 2026

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  1. Yeah, I'm here in San Antonio for the NBA finals.0:08
  2. Let's wrap up some interviews.0:11
  3. I got one.0:14
  4. Want to do a push -up competition?0:16
  5. With you, with you?0:17
  6. Yeah.0:18
  7. Yeah, let's do it.0:19
  8. All right, let's do it.0:19
  9. You go first.0:20
  10. You go first.0:21
  11. No, you go first.0:21
  12. Off the basis, let's go first.0:22
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  1. Off the basis, let's go first.0:23
  2. All right, forget about it.0:25
  3. Say by the bell.0:29
  4. This question is for all the views.0:29
  5. You know all the people who watch all the views?0:32
  6. This is from Miss Franquin, okay?0:34
  7. Do the benefit of male circumcision avoid the risk?0:37
  8. Well...0:42
  9. He's a simple question.0:43
  10. He's a simple question.0:45
  11. I'm not gonna say what I am, guys.0:46
  12. I'm not gonna say anything.0:49
  13. I just want to say congratulations on making it to the finals.0:50
  14. Thank you, thank you.0:53
  15. I appreciate it.0:53
  16. Let me ask you, how many chickens will it take to kill an elephant?0:54
  17. Probably like 150, 200.0:59
  18. But there have to be big chickens.1:03
  19. What are the top three sexiest condiments?1:07
  20. Sexiest condiments?1:10
  21. Yeah.1:11
  22. Hot sauce, you know?1:12
  23. Hot sauce, yeah, spicy, yeah.1:13
  24. What about tartar sauce?1:16
  25. What sauce?1:18
  26. Tartar sauce.1:19
  27. Tartar sauce?1:19
  28. No, that's not sexy.1:20
  29. No, that's not sexy.1:21
  30. I don't think so, yeah.1:22
  31. No, tartar sauce.1:22
  32. I gotta go and catch up to start off with.1:23
  33. What?1:25
  34. Catch up with the sexy one?1:26
  35. Yeah, for sure.1:28
  36. Catch up with the versatile, you know what I mean?1:28
  37. Yeah.1:30
  38. It's the person that makes the catch up sexy, you know what I mean?1:30
  39. You know Harrison Barr?1:32
  40. Of course.1:34
  41. So, that guy loves catch up.1:34
  42. I asked him, he loved catch up.1:37
  43. Like sexy, crazy, he was like, catch up is so sexy, he loves catch up so much.1:39
  44. He's so horny for catch up.1:43
  45. I'm worried about him.1:45
  46. I can't see him doing that, but I'll get him catch up.1:46
  47. Yeah.1:48
  48. I'll get him catch up.1:48
  49. Who's your heated rivalry?1:50
  50. Heated rivalry.1:52
  51. Oh.1:53
  52. Who's yours?1:54
  53. Well, my brother.1:55
  54. Wow, your brother?1:57
  55. That's intense.1:59
  56. You went to Vianova, right?2:00
  57. Mm -hmm.2:02
  58. Also the pop too.2:03
  59. Yeah.2:05
  60. How he was in school?2:06
  61. He was in school?2:08
  62. I don't know, I'm not that old.2:09
  63. You want to give him my shout out?2:11
  64. Yeah, man, shout out to pop Leo.2:12
  65. Obviously, go cats.2:14
  66. Can you hold this?2:18
  67. Yes, I can.2:19
  68. Oh.2:26
  69. There we go.2:28
  70. Wow.2:29
  71. That's what we call a ten -yard hat.2:30
  72. You all right?2:32
  73. What you got in there?2:33
  74. Hopefully, it's sufficient electrolytes.2:35
  75. Thank you very much.2:37
  76. Yeah, you're welcome.2:38
  77. Hey, listen, you know Tim and the Charlemagne, he's a big fan of you guys, all right?2:40
  78. That's all I got.2:45
  79. Have you seen the one, the movie that he has a pitch, and then he makes love to the pitch?2:45
  80. What movie is that?2:51
  81. Call me by your name.2:52
  82. But you look a little bit like Charlemagne.2:54
  83. A little bit?2:56
  84. You like peaches?2:56
  85. Not like that.2:58
  86. We're at the same table, you know, Kylie and Tim at their wedding.3:01
  87. But by accident, I ordered a salmon, and you ordered a chicken.3:06
  88. Can we go half -ish?3:11
  89. We're going half -ish.3:12
  90. Yeah.3:13
  91. We're going half -ish.3:13
  92. Deal?3:14
  93. Deal.3:15
  94. You want to take an Uber together?3:16
  95. Probably not.3:18
  96. No.3:19
  97. Probably not.3:19
  98. I'll see you later.3:20
  99. Okay.3:21
  100. Cut.3:23
  101. Cut.3:25
  102. Hey, let me ask you, what do they call you, cat?3:26
  103. Carl and the New Town.3:29
  104. What does that mean?3:32
  105. Yeah.3:32
  106. That's a name.3:34
  107. I will tell you though, C -A -T is probably a little better.3:35
  108. Look, the cat in the hat.3:37
  109. The cat in the hat.3:39
  110. Yes, the cat in the hat.3:39
  111. Yeah.3:41
  112. How you doing?3:42
  113. I love you, man.3:43
  114. I love you too.3:44
  115. I was sure.3:45
  116. You're all my girls.3:45
  117. Gracias.3:46
  118. Me and you, we are so talented.3:47
  119. We're so good at almost everything.3:50
  120. Me and you, we're like this, brother.3:51
  121. Yeah, we're like this.3:53
  122. So I want to ask you a question.3:54
  123. How do you say in French, I love tequila.3:56
  124. Jam.4:00
  125. Jam.4:01
  126. Jam.4:02
  127. Jam.4:02
  128. Jam.4:03
  129. Jam.4:04
  130. La.4:05
  131. La.4:05
  132. Tequila.4:06
  133. Jam.4:07
  134. La.4:08
  135. Tequila.4:08
  136. You want to rub my belly for good luck?4:09
  137. Wow, that was amazing.4:13
  138. I have a tequila.4:15
  139. And I want you to help me to promote my own tequila.4:17
  140. It's called Guillermo half drunk tequila.4:20
  141. Half drunk tequila.4:22
  142. Yeah.4:23
  143. I drink half a bottle so you don't have to.4:24
  144. Okay?4:26
  145. I don't drink at all.4:27
  146. No, don't worry.4:29
  147. I'll pour it down your throat.4:30
  148. Okay.4:32
  149. Yo.4:34
  150. Yo.4:35
  151. Yo.4:35
  152. Yo.4:36
  153. Yo.4:37
  154. Yo.4:38
  155. Yo.4:39
  156. Yo.4:39
  157. Yo.4:40
  158. I've never done it.4:41
  159. I've never done it.4:42
  160. This is not how we're going to start tequila.4:43
  161. When you play in NBA finals, you don't have time for a full bottle of tequila.4:44
  162. That's what I come in.4:48
  163. I like to dunk, but I love half drunk.4:49
  164. When you only want some tequila, test the Guillermo.4:52
  165. Taste the Guillermo.4:56
  166. Guillermo's half drunk tequila.4:58
  167. It's a slam drunk.4:59
  168. I guess it took a half court shot.5:03
  169. After tequila for the whole price.5:06
  170. And that's Guillermo guarantee.5:08
  171. You're scammed, bro.5:10
  172. Perfect tequila for half the time.5:12
  173. I'm sober.5:14
  174. I'm not.5:16
  175. I know.5:17
  176. Not me.5:18
  177. Well, that's it for the NBA finals.5:19
  178. Until next year.5:21
  179. Yippee -ki -yay, motherf**kers.5:23
  180. Bye.5:26

A fast American celebrity interview for daily english conversation practice

This clip is Guillermo, Jimmy Kimmel's sidekick, working NBA Media Day 2026 in San Antonio and stopping players for quick, unscripted interviews. He opens with "Yeah, I'm here in San Antonio for the NBA finals." before the first player is even in frame. The recording is rated B1, spoken in an American accent throughout, and moves at 258 words per minute, faster than 97% of the catalogue, so lines land close together and speakers step on each other's sentences the way people actually do in daily english conversation practice.

What makes it worth practising speaking on is the turn taking, not a monologue. Two men stall over who goes first, "You go first." then "No, you go first.", the kind of hesitation and repetition scripted material never gives you. Because the exchanges are short, you can loop a single line for english speaking practice without losing the thread of the scene, and the questions Guillermo asks are absurd enough that the players' real reactions carry the comedy, not the script.

The language in this clip: reductions to catch at american accent training pace

Three lines are worth slowing down for. Guillermo dodges a personal question with "I'm not gonna say what I am, guys.", where going to collapses to gonna and the words run together at speed, exactly the kind of compression that trips up learners doing american accent training on faster recordings. Later he says "I gotta go and catch up to start off with.", another reduced form, got to becoming gotta, said so fast it barely separates from the next word.

  • "I'm not gonna say what I am, guys." Listen for how little air goes into gonna. It is closer to one beat than two words.
  • "I gotta go and catch up to start off with." Notice gotta lands on the stressed syllable and the rest of the line rushes past it.
  • "What are the top three sexiest condiments?" The rare word condiments carries rising question intonation. Say it slowly first to fix the stress on the second syllable, then speed it back up to match the clip.

A line by line order for english shadowing practice on this clip

Work through this recording in a fixed order rather than jumping around. It keeps the B1 vocabulary load light and lets you build up speed gradually before the language gets stranger.

  • Start on line 1, "Yeah, I'm here in San Antonio for the NBA finals.", to get the flat opening pace before anyone starts talking over anyone else.
  • Loop lines 9 to 14, the "You go first." back and forth, to shadow this line for turn taking rhythm rather than meaning. Nobody is saying anything complex, so all your attention goes to timing.
  • Isolate line 23, "I'm not gonna say what I am, guys.", and repeat it until gonna comes out as one unit, not two separate words.
  • Slow line 31, "What are the top three sexiest condiments?", to a crawl for the word condiments, then bring it back to full speed to match the clip.
  • Finish on line 44, "I gotta go and catch up to start off with.", pairing it with the earlier gonna line so both reductions are fresh in the same session and you can hear how similar they sound at speed.
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