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🧠 Episode Summary

Welcome to Shadowing With Peter, the calm corner of the Slow English Podcast where we train your ears step by step.

In this episode, Peter focuses on the three biggest traps that stop learners from improving their English — and shows you how to escape them today:

Trap 1 — The Vocabulary Trap

Collecting words but never using them.

Trap 2 — Waiting to Feel Ready

The illusion that you need confidence before speaking.

Trap 3 — Believing You Are the Problem

The mindset that destroys motivation before progress begins.

You’ll hear simple examples, calm explanations, and gentle shadowing prompts that help you speak more clearly, naturally, and confidently.

📌 You are not the problem.

Your method is the problem.

And today, you change it.

⏱️ TIMESTAMPS

00:00 — Welcome & introduction

00:20 — “Why am I still stuck?”

00:48 — The truth about learning traps

01:10 — Trap 1: The vocabulary trap

01:58 — How to escape Trap 1

02:25 — Trap 2: Waiting to feel ready

03:10 — The bicycle example

03:45 — “Messy is better than silent”

04:15 — Trap 3: Believing you are the problem

05:18 — It’s not you — it’s the method

06:10 — From passive learner to active creator

07:00 — Speak, shadow, record — small habits

07:40 — Review of the 3 traps

08:20 — “Your voice opens the English door”

09:00 — Call for comments

09:35 — Closing message

10:00 — End

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🧘 Closing Reflection

You are not slow.

You are not behind.

You are not the problem.

You were simply following a method that didn’t help you grow.

But now you know the traps — and you also know the way out:

use your voice, practice slowly, show up every day.

You are much closer than you think.

Thank you for listening.

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