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Welcome to Spotlight.
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I'm Liz Waid.
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And I'm Colin Lowther.
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What do you think of when you hear the word 'luxury'?
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Some people may think of lying in the sand on a beautiful ocean beach.
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Others may think of sitting on a costly boat in the sun, enjoying a cold drink.
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These are experiences of luxury.
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But luxury also involves goods and services.
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Here are some real luxury goods that people can buy.
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A solid gold baby bed for 16 million dollars.
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Women's underwear covered in jewels.
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For $10 million.
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A brand name watch for $42 ,000.
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A popular handbag for $4 ,900.
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A martini drink for $1 ,000.
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A one -person dinner for $270.
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These are extreme examples of available luxury goods.
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Most people could never buy these expensive things. and do?
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What makes people want luxury?
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Is it good for us?
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Today's Spotlight is on luxury.
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To some people, luxury means excess.
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Or having more than what is necessary.
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To others, luxury means goods and services that cost a lot of money.
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In this case, Luxury can represent high quality.
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Or, it can also just represent the image of a particular brand name.
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- Yeah.
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The Oxford Dictionary defines luxury as both a state of being And as a thing.
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It says that luxury is "a state of living with ease and excess.
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And, it says, "Luxury is a thing that is not needed. but desired.
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Expensive And difficult to get.
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Bye.
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The global market for luxury goods and services is growing.
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Euromonitor reports that in five years,
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from 2010 to 2014, the luxury goods market grew 36%.
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It estimates that by 2019,
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The global market for luxury goods will have increased 88 % in 10 years.
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Thank you.
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So why are luxury goods so popular?
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especially since they are difficult to get.
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One of the reasons is because they are so difficult to get.
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It makes people feel like they have status, or a high position.
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that other people do not have.
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The website Psychology Today states: Thank you.
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Buyers purchase luxury goods for different reasons.
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One reason is that luxury goods give a sense of status and wealth.
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They help people feel exclusive.
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or More rare and special. than others.
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Luxury brand names want to stay exclusive, or only available to a few people.
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They encourage the sense that people who buy their products are better than others.
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If too many people have a particular product, it loses its appeal.
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Simon Peck is from the House of Luxury, a company that sells watches and jewels.
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Peck told the BBC: When the person who drives you around owns the same watch as you,
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It is time to look for something better.
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But not everyone wants luxury just to feel better than everyone else.
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Some people simply want to be like everyone else.
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Farnoosh Brock writes a blog on the internet.
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She wrote about her desire for luxury products.
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Brock travelled several times to Japan.
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There, she saw many women with expensive $5 ,000 bags.
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Then she wanted one.
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She wrote about it on her blog Prolific Living.
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She said that buying particular brands is very popular in Japan.
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place in society.
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The top Western brand names speak loudly in that culture.
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So naturally, everyone buys them.
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Possibly this is because everyone wants to belong - to be accepted as an equal.
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desire for a luxury bag.
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She writes: I really badly want a luxury Prada bag.
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Suppose I buy my Prada bag.
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Will I stop wanting the beautiful sunglasses that go with it?
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What about the perfect little black dress?
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pleased and satisfied.
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For other people, luxury is more about beauty.
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Writer Dana Thomas wrote a book about luxury.
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Thomas says that not all luxury is greed.
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She told the Luxury Society: Luxury is moral when it comes from creativity and not greed.
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When you create, to make something beautiful Then you are being mortal.
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Spiritual? and true Luxury does not have to only represent a fashionable brand.
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It can also represent high achievement in beauty and creativity.
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But you still need to have wealth to possess luxury.
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Buying and experiencing luxury puts a person in a rare group.
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Many many people in this world are poor.
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The World Bank reports that more than two billion people live in poverty.
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And more than one billion live in extreme poverty.
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The United Nations reports that almost half of the world's children live in extreme poverty.
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300 million children actually go to bed hungry.
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Every night, The inequality of people living in poverty and in luxury is very clear.
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And it brings up an important question. Is luxury morally wrong?
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Is it wrong to spend $16 million on a golden bed for a baby?
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Is it wrong to spend thousands of dollars on shoes?
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That money could buy food for very poor people.
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It could support schools.
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It could do many other things too.
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you Thank you.
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This is a complex debate.
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You may not be able to buy $5 ,000 shoes.
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But you may be able to spend $50,
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or $100, or possibly even $500.
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These are still large amounts of money.
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Any of those amounts could help a poor person.
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But you need shoes too.
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How can you tell what exact amount is morally right to spend?
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Christian teaching moves the question away from numbers and products.
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The Christian Bible does not say that having wealth is wrong.
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Or even that desire for beauty and comfort is wrong.
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It says, 'Keep your lives free from the love of money.' Be happy with what you have.
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For Jesus said, "I will never leave you." This teaching asks us to examine our hearts.
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Jesus' followers believe that they do not have to chase wealth.
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They can have money, but they should not love money.
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They believe that God will provide for their needs, including the presence of Jesus.
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The writer of this program was Jen Hawkins.
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The producer was Michio Ozaki.
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The voices you heard were from the United States and the United Kingdom.
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All quotes were adapted for this program and voiced by Spotlight.
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You can listen to this program again, and read it on the Internet. at www.
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dot radioenglish .com dot net.
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This program is called "Buying Things That Cost A Lot." Tell us what you think about today's program.
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You can leave a comment on our website.
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We hope you can join us again for the next Spotlight program.
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Goodbye.
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Warum das Sprechen mit diesem Video üben?
Das Üben des Sprechens mit Videos wie diesem ist eine hervorragende Methode, um die eigenen Sprachfähigkeiten zu verbessern. Diese besondere Form des shadow speech bietet zahlreiche Vorteile. Indem Sie den Sprechern zuhören und gleichzeitig nachsprechen, können Sie Ihre Englische Aussprache verbessern und ein besseres Gefühl für die Sprachmelodie entwickeln. In diesem Video werden Luxusgüter und deren Bedeutung diskutiert, was nicht nur Ihren Wortschatz erweitert, sondern auch interessante Diskussionen anregt. Durch das Nachahmen der Sprecher können Sie typische englische Ausdrücke und Redewendungen erlernen, die in alltäglichen Gesprächen verwendet werden.
Grammatik & Ausdrücke im Kontext
Im Video werden mehrere wichtige Strukturen verwendet, die Sie beim Englisch sprechen üben unterstützen können:
- "What do you think of when you hear..." - Diese Struktur ist ideal, um Meinungen zu äußern und Gespräche zu beginnen.
- "Luxury means..." - Diese Aussage illustriert die Definition von Begriffen und fördert den Austausch über Bedeutungen.
- "is both a state of being and as a thing" - Diese Grammatik hilft beim Verständnis von Komplexität in der Sprache und zeigt, wie vielseitig Begriffe sein können.
- "give a sense of status..." - Hier wird Ausdrücken von Empfindungen und sozialen Status eine Stimme verliehen - nützlich für persönliche Gespräche.
Häufige Aussprachefallen
Beim Üben der Englisch Shadowing-Technik können einige Worte und Ausdrücke herausfordernd sein. Hier sind einige typische Aussprachefallen aus dem Video:
- Luxury - Achten Sie darauf, wie das "x" in der Mitte des Wortes klingt. In den meisten Fällen neigen Lernende dazu, es zu übergehen, was die korrekte Aussprache beeinträchtigen kann.
- Status - Dieses Wort kann in verschiedenen Dialekten unterschiedlich ausgesprochen werden, daher ist es essenziell, die richtige Variante zu hören und zu üben.
- Expensive - Die Betonung auf der zweiten Silbe kann oft Schwierigkeiten verursachen; üben Sie, dies deutlich zu artikulieren.
Indem Sie diese Herausforderungen angehen und im Rahmen Ihres Englisch sprechen üben, werden Sie nicht nur Ihre Aussprache verbessern, sondern auch mehr Selbstvertrauen beim Kommunizieren in Englisch aufbauen.
Grammatik in diesem Video
Die Strukturen, die der Sprecher am häufigsten verwendet, mit den genauen Worten aus dem Video:
| Struktur | Im Video |
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| Passiv be + Partizip Perfekt – wichtig ist, was geschieht, nicht wer es tut | is not needed · be accepted · is greed |
| Relativsätze who / which + Satz – eine Zusatzinformation über eine Person oder Sache | people who buy · person who drives |
| Möglichkeit mit „might / may“ might/may + Verb – etwas ist möglich, aber nicht sicher | may think · may not be · may be |
| Komparativ -er than / more … than – zwei Dinge vergleichen | better than |
Was ist die Shadowing-Technik?
Shadowing ist eine wissenschaftlich fundierte Sprachlerntechnik, die ursprünglich für die professionelle Dolmetscherausbildung entwickelt und durch den Polyglotten Dr. Alexander Arguelles populär gemacht wurde. Die Methode ist einfach aber wirkungsvoll: Du hörst englisches Audio von Muttersprachlern und wiederholst es sofort laut — wie ein Schatten, der dem Sprecher mit nur 1–2 Sekunden Verzögerung folgt. Anders als passives Hören oder Grammatikübungen zwingt Shadowing dein Gehirn und deine Mundmuskulatur, gleichzeitig echte Sprachmuster zu verarbeiten und zu reproduzieren. Studien zeigen, dass es Aussprachegenauigkeit, Intonation, Rhythmus, verbundene Sprache, Hörverständnis und Sprechflüssigkeit signifikant verbessert — was es zu einer der effektivsten Methoden für die IELTS Speaking-Vorbereitung und reale englische Kommunikation macht.