تدريب Shadowing: Why Socrates Hated Democracy - تعلم التحدث بالإنجليزية عبر الفيديو

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What is the most important thing to think about democracy?
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We're used to thinking very highly of democracy, and by extension, of ancient Athens, the civilization that gave rise to it.
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The Parthenon has become almost a byword for democratic values, which is why so many leaders of democracies like to be photographed there.
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It's therefore very striking to discover that one of ancient Greece's greatest achievements, philosophy, was highly suspicious of its other achievement, democracy.
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The founding father of Greek philosophy, Socrates, is portrayed in the dialogues of Plato as hugely pessimistic about the whole business of democracy.
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In Book 6 of the Republic, Plato describes Socrates falling into conversation with a character called Adimantus
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and trying to get him to see the flaws of democracy by by comparing a society to a ship.
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If you were heading out on a journey by sea, asks Socrates, who would you ideally want deciding who was in charge of the vessel?
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Just anyone or people educated in the rules and demands of seafaring?
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The latter, of course, says Ademantus.
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So why then, responds Socrates, do we keep thinking that any old person should be fit to judge who should be the ruler of a country?
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Socrates' point is that voting in an election is a skill, not a random intuition.
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And like any skill, it needs to be taught systematically to people.
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Letting the citizenry vote without an education is as irresponsible as
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putting them in charge of a trireme sailing to Samos in a storm.
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Socrates was to have first-hand catastrophic experience of the foolishness of voters.
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In 399 BC, the philosopher was put on trial on trumped-up charges of corrupting the youth of Athens.
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A jury of 500 Athenians was invited to weigh up the case and decided, by a narrow margin, that the philosopher was guilty.
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was put to death by Hemlock in a process
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which is for thinking people every bit as tragic as Jesus' condemnation has been for Christians.
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Crucially, Socrates was not elitist in the normal sense.
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He didn't believe that a narrow few should only ever vote.
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He did, however, insist that only those who had thought about issues rationally and deeply should be let near a vote.
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We have forgotten this distinction between an intellectual democracy and a democracy by birthright.
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We have given the vote to all without connecting it to wisdom.
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And Socrates knew exactly where that would lead, to a system the Greeks feared above all.
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Demagoguery.
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Ancient Athens had painful experience of demagogues.
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For example, the loush figure of Alcibiades,
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a rich, charismatic, smooth-talking, wealthy man who eroded basic freedoms and helped to push Athens to its disastrous military adventures in Sicily.
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Socrates knew how easily people seeking election could exploit our desire for easy answers.
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He asked us to imagine an election debate between two candidates, one who was like a doctor and the other who was like a sweet shop owner.
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The sweet shop owner would say of his rival, Look, this person here has worked many evils on you.
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He hurts you, gives you bitter potions and tells you not to eat and drink whatever you like.
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He'll never serve you feasts of many and varied pleasant things like I will.
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Socrates asks us to consider the audience's response.
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Do you think the doctor would be able to reply effectively?
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The true answer, I cause you trouble and go against your desires in order to help you, would cause an uproar among the voters, don't you think?
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We have forgotten all about Socrates' salient warnings against democracy.
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We have preferred to think of democracy as an unambiguous good rather than as something
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that is only ever as effective as the education system that surrounds it.
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As a result, we have elected many sweet shop owners and very few doctors.
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Thank you.
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المفردات وملاحظات التحدث لهذا الدرس

هذا الدرس في المحادثة بمستوى C1 مبني على الفيديو “Why Socrates Hated Democracy”. أكثر الكلمات تكرارًا في الفيديو: Socrates, democracy, Athens, vote, ancient. يحتوي هذا الفيديو على 43 جملة و645 كلمة للتدرب على الترديد. مدة الكلام 4:11. يتكلم المتحدث بسرعة طبيعية، نحو 154 كلمة في الدقيقة، قريبة من المحادثة اليومية. 78% فقط من الكلمات ضمن أكثر 3,000 كلمة شيوعًا في الإنجليزية، فالمفردات صعبة نسبيًا.

أهم المفردات في هذا الفيديو

أصعب 15 كلمة في الفيديو، مع النطق والمعنى:

الكلمةالنطقالمعنى
philosopher اسم/fəˈlɑsəfɚ/فَيْلَسُوف
foolishness اسم/ˈfuːlɪʃnəs/حَمَاقَة
pessimistic صفة/ˌpɛ.səˈmɪs.tɪk/مُتَشَائِم
potion اسم/ˈpoʊ.ʃən/جُرْعَة
unambiguous صفةغَيْر مُبْهَم
condemnation اسم/ˌkɑndəmˈneɪʃən/إِدَانَة
intuition اسم/ˌɪn.tjuːˈɪʃ.ən/حَدْس
surround فعل/səˈɹaʊnd/أَحَاطَ, حَفَّ
exploit اسم/ˈɛksplɔɪt/مَأْثُرَة
ruler اسم/ˈɹulɚ/مِسْطَرَة
educate فعل/ˈɛd͡ʒ.əˌkeɪt/يُعَلم, درّب
feast اسم/ˈfiːst/وَلِيمَة, مَأْدُبَة
weigh فعل/weɪ/وَزَنَ
sail اسم/seɪl/شِرَاع
civilization اسم/ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/حَضَارَة, تَمَدُّن

القواعد في هذا الفيديو

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

التركيبفي الفيديو
المضارع التام have/has + اسم المفعول — حدث ماضٍ ما زال له أثر الآنhas become · has been · have forgotten
المبني للمجهول be + اسم المفعول — التركيز على ما يحدث لا على من يفعلهbe photographed · is portrayed · be taught
جمل الوصل who / which + جملة — معلومة إضافية عن شخص أو شيءvalues, which is · those who had · man who eroded

نطق يحتاج إلى انتباه

يستخدم المتحدث 4 من الصيغ المختصرة، مثل didn't, don't, he'll. انطقها بصيغتها القصيرة كما تسمعها.

  • أصوات “sh” و“zh”: crucially /ˈkɹuːʃəli/, foolishness /ˈfuːlɪʃnəs/, potion /ˈpoʊ.ʃən/, condemnation /ˌkɑndəmˈneɪʃən/, intuition /ˌɪn.tjuːˈɪʃ.ən/
  • الكلمات الطويلة — انتبه لموضع النبر: philosopher /fəˈlɑsəfɚ/, charismatic /ˌkɛɹəzˈmætək/, demagoguery /ˌdɛməˈɡɑɡəɹi/, pessimistic /ˌpɛ.səˈmɪs.tɪk/, systematically /ˌsɪs.təˈmæt.ɪ.kli/

أصوات يجدها متحدثو العربية صعبة:

  • /p/ — ليس /b/: انطقه مع نفخة هواء: pessimistic /ˌpɛ.səˈmɪs.tɪk/, potion /ˈpoʊ.ʃən/, uproar /ˈʌpɹɔːɹ/, portray /poɹˈtɹeɪ̯/, irresponsible /ˌɪɹ.əˈspɑn.sə.bəl/
  • تتابع الصوامت — لا تضف حركة بينها: crucially /ˈkɹuːʃəli/, salient /ˈseɪ.li.ənt/, intuition /ˌɪn.tjuːˈɪʃ.ən/, catastrophic /ˌkætəˈstɹɑfɪk/, flaw /flɔ/

كيف تتدرب بهذا الفيديو

  1. استمع إلى الفيديو كاملًا مرة واحدة دون أن تتكلم، ودوّن الكلمات التي لا تعرفها.
  2. ابدأ بسرعة 0.75×، وردّد جملة جملة، ثم عُد إلى السرعة العادية عندما يصبح الأمر سهلًا.
  3. سجّل صوتك وقارنه بالأصل، مع الانتباه إلى كلمات مثل philosopher, foolishness, pessimistic.

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