Hello, I'm Anna Beginner shadowing lesson
This clip is from Let's Learn English, the beginner course from VOA Learning English, where Anna is a young woman who has moved to Washington, D.C. She says hello and meets her roommate Marsha, a few other people and her new boss, Caty Weaver. The sentences are short, slow and clear, so they are easy to repeat at beginner level.
- Beginner
- Audio
- 0:44
- 15 sentences
Free, no account needed. The app plays one sentence and waits for you to say it.
The sentences
Hello, everyone. Hi there.
I'm Anna, and I live in Washington, D.C.
Every day I learn more about this great city.
I live with Marsha.
We're roommates. I'm Jonathan.
I'm in apartment B4.
I am in apartment C2.
Here I am at my new job.
I am your boss, Caty Weaver, but please call me Caty.
Thank you, Ms. Weaver.
Just Caty.
Sure thing, Ms. Weaver.
Okay, then. Every day I do my morning show.
I have to go now. Goodbye.
Goodbye, Anna.
Words and phrases
- live in
- have your home in a place
- roommates
- people who share a home
- apartment
- a home of a few rooms inside a bigger building
- new job
- work you have just started
- boss
- the person in charge of you at work
- call me
- use this name when you talk to me
- Sure thing
- a friendly way to say yes
- I have to go
- I must leave
How to practise this clip
Listen for the short forms I'm and We're, and how live in joins into one sound, like li-vin.
- Read the sentence and the words to know, then listen to it.
- Say it right after the speaker, slowly at first. The app waits until you finish.
- Play your try next to the speaker's, then say it again until it sounds the same.
Source
VOA Learning English (Voice of America), Let's Learn English, public domain