Hello and welcome back to your English five a day on the English Like a Native podcast.
This is your daily dunk into the English language.
By joining me every day of the working week,
you can slowly increase your vocabulary, improve your listening skills and generally start to feel more
confident with the English language.
My name is Anna and today we are starting week 10 of our story following Gabriel's journey across Britain.
Why are we following Gabriel?
Because learning through stories is much more fun and effective.
So after exploring the wild beauty of the Scottish Highlands,
Gabriel is now heading south and returning to something a little more technical, his pronunciation training.
Because learning English isn't just about vocabulary, it's also about how we connect sounds naturally in speech.
As always, supporting materials for this season are available at www. joinelan. com forward slash plus.
But now, let's begin, as we always do, with a snapshot of what's to come.
On the train to Bristol, Gabriel practices shadowing.
Repeating phrases to match natural rhythm and intonation.
He focuses on linking sounds between words, notices examples of intrusion in connected speech,
reviews tricky diphthongs, and practices sentences where elision makes words sound shorter and more natural.
All right, let's go into our vocabulary breakdown.
First, let's look at the word shadowing.
Shadowing.