C1 English shadowing videos

Shadow YouTube videos at C1 (Advanced) level — listen, repeat, record and score your pronunciation.

How One Company Secretly Poisoned The PlanetC1ScienceKaraoke54:08
How One Company Secretly Poisoned The Planet
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The World's Most Important MachineC1ScienceKaraoke55:00
The World's Most Important Machine
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How a Student's Question Saved This NYC SkyscraperC1ScienceKaraoke33:39
How a Student's Question Saved This NYC Skyscraper
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Exposing Why Farmers Can't Legally Replant Their Own SeedsC1ScienceKaraoke46:58
Exposing Why Farmers Can't Legally Replant Their Own Seeds
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Something Strange Happens When You Trust Quantum MechanicsC1ScienceKaraoke33:00
Something Strange Happens When You Trust Quantum Mechanics
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Why Do Escalator Steps Have Teeth?C1ScienceKaraoke22:17
Why Do Escalator Steps Have Teeth?
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You Need to Be Bored. Here's Why.C1BusinessKaraoke5:49
You Need to Be Bored. Here's Why.
Harvard Business Review7
There Is Something Faster Than LightC1ScienceKaraoke44:15
There Is Something Faster Than Light
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The Internet Was Weeks Away From Disaster and No One KnewC1ScienceKaraoke53:00
The Internet Was Weeks Away From Disaster and No One Knew
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The Most Controversial Idea In MathC1ScienceKaraoke33:00
The Most Controversial Idea In Math
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The Ridiculous Engineering of Jet EnginesC1ScienceKaraoke39:34
The Ridiculous Engineering of Jet Engines
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The Biggest Misconception in PhysicsC1ScienceKaraoke27:39
The Biggest Misconception in Physics
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The Perfect Battery Material Is DangerousC1ScienceKaraoke34:42
The Perfect Battery Material Is Dangerous
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This mechanism shrinks when pulledC1ScienceKaraoke23:06
This mechanism shrinks when pulled
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The Strange Math That Predicts (Almost) AnythingC1ScienceKaraoke32:32
The Strange Math That Predicts (Almost) Anything
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How this helicopter survived 1004 days on Mars, then disappeared...C1Science29:07
How this helicopter survived 1004 days on Mars, then disappeared...
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Can you really reach anyone in 6 steps?C1ScienceKaraoke33:17
Can you really reach anyone in 6 steps?
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What Happens If You Keep Slowing Down?C1ScienceKaraoke30:09
What Happens If You Keep Slowing Down?
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The Man Who Fooled The WorldC1ScienceKaraoke46:09
The Man Who Fooled The World
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The asbestos problem is worse than we thoughtC1ScienceKaraoke54:46
The asbestos problem is worse than we thought
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You've (Likely) Been Playing The Game of Life WrongC1ScienceKaraoke45:13
You've (Likely) Been Playing The Game of Life Wrong
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This is the natural disaster to worry aboutC1ScienceKaraoke41:07
This is the natural disaster to worry about
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The Crystal That Could Destroy All MedicineC1ScienceKaraoke33:24
The Crystal That Could Destroy All Medicine
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What happens if you drop 0.125 grams of antimatter?C1ScienceKaraoke58:53
What happens if you drop 0.125 grams of antimatter?
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What is C1 (Advanced)?

At C1 you understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts and recognise implicit meaning. You express ideas fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for words, and use language flexibly for social, academic and professional purposes.

C1 on IELTS, TOEFL & Cambridge

C1 maps to roughly IELTS 7.0–8.0, TOEFL iBT 95–120, and the Cambridge C1 Advanced (CAE) exam. See the full CEFR comparison table or the official Council of Europe descriptors.

How to shadow at C1

Use fast podcasts, panel discussions and casual interviews where speakers overlap and use idioms. Shadow at full speed, copying connected speech and reductions. Pick subjects you enjoy from shadowing topics or a channel; when it feels easy, move up to C2.