Shadowing practice: Real English® 2 Subtitled - Where are you from? - CC Double

This clip is a Real English street interview, not a script read to camera: a presenter walks up to strangers and asks the same question again and again, "Where are you from?" The recording sits at A1, so nearly every answer is a short sentence you can hold in your head after one listen. It runs at 170 words per minute, faster than 34% of the catalogue, so the words still come quickly even though each sentence itself is simple. The accent throughout is American english.

What makes it worth practising speaking on is the repetition. By the middle of the clip the presenter has already asked "Where are you from?" more than a dozen times, and each stranger answers in their own rhythm, some flat, some rising, some hesitant. That variety inside one question is useful for english speaking practice, because you are not drilling one voice, you are drilling one sentence shape across many different speakers.

The presenter's own question stays almost identical every time, which lets you compare how differently people answer it. A full sentence answer like "I'm from Auckland, New Zealand" shows the standard subject, verb, place pattern, while a clipped confirmation like "You're from France?" turns the same fact into a question with a shift in pitch and nothing else.

• "Where are you from?" repeated across dozens of strangers, so you hear the same four words carried by different stress and speed each time.
• "I'm from Auckland, New Zealand" is the full answer pattern: subject, verb, place, a template worth copying for your own answer.
• "You're from France?" turns a statement into a question through rising pitch alone, with no change to word order, good practice for american accent training on intonation.
• "did you spell your name" is a hesitation before a name gets spelled out letter by letter, a reminder that real speech stumbles even in a simple interview.

Work through the clip by the pattern that repeats, not strictly top to bottom, since dozens of separate strangers answer the same line.

• Start on "Where are you from?" itself and say it out loud until the four words come out in one breath, with no gap between them.
• Move to "I'm from Auckland, New Zealand" and shadow the full sentence shape so you have a ready answer template of your own.
• Shadow "You're from France?" separately, matching the rise at the end rather than the words, since the words alone will not tell a listener it is a question.
• Finish on "did you spell your name" and the letter by letter spelling that follows it, useful for practising individual letters aloud as part of daily english conversation practice.