تدريب Shadowing: Does Your Family Tree Outgrow Earth? 🤯 - تعلم التحدث بالإنجليزية عبر الفيديو

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This is you, and these are your two parents.
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They each have two parents as well, who are your four grandparents, who each have two more parents.
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With every generation, the tree grows, meaning by the time you go back to the year 1400, you'll have over 16 million ancestors.
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And if you go back a few centuries more, your family tree will include more humans than the population of Earth at that time.
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But that's because the further back you go, the less people there were on Earth.
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So the more likely it is your ancestors were already related, with distant cousins marrying each other.
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And that means one ancestor will show up more than once in different places on your family tree.
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Meaning it's not that big after all.

Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This video has 8 sentences and 129 words to shadow. The speech runs for 0:49. The speaker talks at a natural 157 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 92% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.

Key vocabulary in this video

8 less common words from the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

  • cousin /ˈkʌz(ə)n/ (noun) — Chiefly with a qualifying word: Any relation (especially a distant one) who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of a person's extended family; a…
  • marry /ˈmæɹi/ (verb) — To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife.
  • distant /ˈdɪstənt/ (adjective) — Far off (physically, logically or mentally).
  • ancestor /ˈæn.sɛs.tɚ/ (noun) — One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a forefather; a forebear.
  • grandparent /ˈɡɹæn(d)pɛəɹənt/ (noun) — The parent of someone's parent.
  • tree /tɹiː/ (noun) — A perennial woody plant taller and larger than a shrub with a wooden trunk and, at some distance from the ground, having leaves and branches.
  • grow /ˈɡɹəʊ/ (verb) — To become larger, to increase in magnitude.
  • generation /ˌd͡ʒɛnəˈɹeɪʃən/ (noun) — The act of creating something or bringing something into being; production, creation.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

  • go back (verb) — To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time.
  • go back to (verb) — To stem from; to originate in.
  • have over (verb) — To host (a visiting guest) at one's house.
  • show up (verb) — To appear, arrive, or attend, especially suddenly or erratically.

How to practise with this video

  1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
  2. Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
  3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like cousin, marry, distant.

القواعد في هذا الفيديو

أكثر التراكيب التي يستخدمها المتحدث، مع العبارات نفسها من الفيديو:

التركيبفي الفيديو
المبني للمجهول be + اسم المفعول — التركيز على ما يحدث لا على من يفعلهwere already related
صيغة المقارنة -er than / more … than — المقارنة بين شيئينmore humans than
المستقبل بـ “will” will + فعل — قرار أو وعد أو توقعyou'll have · will include · will show

ما هي تقنية التظليل الصوتي؟

التظليل الصوتي (Shadowing) تقنية تعلم لغة مدعومة علمياً، طُورت أصلاً لتدريب المترجمين الفوريين المحترفين. الطريقة بسيطة لكنها قوية: تستمع لصوت إنجليزي أصلي وتكرره فوراً بصوت عالٍ — كظل يتبع المتحدث بتأخير 1-2 ثانية. تُظهر الأبحاث تحسناً كبيراً في دقة النطق والتنغيم والإيقاع وربط الأصوات والاستماع والطلاقة.

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