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What the writer means when he says: 'I had never heard spoken back to me' and ' my big plan of beating the city folks was thawing before my eye'?
I realized that my classmates were already all talking in English, simple sentences tossed out to each other in their red-faced introductions and carefree chatting. Their intonations were curving and dramatic and their pronunciation refined and accurate. But as I stretched to catch the drips and drops of their humming dialogue, I couldn’t understand it all, only that it was English. Those words now flying before me sounded a little familiar. I had read them and tried to speak them, but I had never heard them spoken back to me in such a speedy, fluent manner.My big plan of beating the city folks was thawing before my eyes.

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'My big plan of beating the city folks was thawing before my eyes.'

This sentence incorporates a 'metaphor'. A metaphor is a 'figure of speech' where a comparison is made but without using the word "like" or "as" (for example, the car was hot "as" fire) but just replacing the thing that is being compared with the thing it is being compared with (for example, the car was a cauldron).

This is just a more sophisticated example.

"My... plan... was thawing before my eyes."

'thaw' is a word that is used with ice.  When ice thaws, it melts; it ceases to be ice; it disappears.

So it's a way of saying 'my plan' was being defeated by something beyond my control and I watched it happen.

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'to have [something] spoken back to you'

if you tell someone 'I love you' and, in response, they tell you 'I love you', they have spoken the words back to you.
  
'spoken back' is for speaker 2 to say the same thing to speaker 1 that speaker 1 said to speaker 2.

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I added some text to it. Would you please answer it too?

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Spoken is the past tense for speak.