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I analyzed 120 ,000 words spoken by native English speakers
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and it turned out that they don't use the idioms that we learned.
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No kill two birds with one stone or once in a blue moon or the ball is in your court.
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These are idioms that we were taught at school and these are the idioms you also learned from this channel as well.
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Hey guys, welcome to Lingua Marina.
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Most of you know me from this channel where we learn English together,
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but I also have a second channel called Silicon Valley Girl where I interview founders
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and CEOs and a lot of them are native English speakers.
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So I went back through about 70 episodes of course with the help of AI.
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Together we pulled out every single word my guest said
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that gave me about 120 000 words of real unscripted English
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and then I went looking for the idioms we all have learned from textbooks and that's when I got this result.
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Don't get me wrong they do use idioms of course they do just way fewer than I expected,
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and different ones from the ones in the books.
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So today we're going to be shadowing my guests.
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And if you can keep up with native speakers at their real speed, your English is pretty advanced.
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If this is your first shadowing video with me, let me explain very quickly what shadowing means.
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Shadowing means you speak at the same time as the speaker.
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You hear the words and you say them out loud in that same moment.
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And I know it feels super weird for the first time
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when i started doing this i couldn't keep up for more than a few seconds
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because why would you repeat after someone that's normal your mouth also may have never said these words before
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or spoken at that speed so it's normal to stop
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and stumble you can stop take a deep breath and start again
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so for every sentence we have two steps first you listen to the sentence
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and i explain it so you already know what's coming then we play it again
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and you shadow it i want you to shadow the whole sentence, not just the phrase, because in real life,
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nobody says an idiom on its own.
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It always lives inside a sentence.
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Okay, let's start.
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Our first sentence is from Priscilla Chan.
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She's a pediatrician, a children's doctor, and together with her husband, Mark Zuckerberg, she runs the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
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The goal is to cure or prevent all disease.
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And here she's talking about the immune system.
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So there's like a very fine balance in the immune system
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that if we understood how that balance gets out of whack in either direction, we could help a lot of people with autoimmune disease.
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There's like a very fine balance in the immune system that
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if we understood how that balance gets out of whack in either direction, we could help a lot of people with autoimmune disease.
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Out of whack, it means not working right, out of balance.
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Super casual, super American, and she's a doctor talking about science, And she still says it.
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My sleep schedule is out of whack after the flight.
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My back is out of whack.
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My shoulder is really hurting right now.
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Or you can say the numbers are completely out of whack.
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And a fine balance.
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Fine here doesn't mean good.
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It means delicate.
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A fine balance is a balance that's easy to break.
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Now let's say it with her.
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So there's like a very fine balance in the immune system
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that if we understood how that balance gets out of whack in either direction, we could help a lot of people with autoimmune disease.
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Good.
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Next one is from one of my favorite guests, Ryan Roslansky, the CEO of LinkedIn.
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We recorded in Davos at the World Economic Forum, and this is about career paths.
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There is no such thing as a linear career path.
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It's all over the place so the more that people first
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and foremost recognize that you have to take your career into your own hands there's no natural path
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that exists you just get on it three things in here
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take your career into your own hands means stop waiting for
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someone else to do it for you your boss your company the system
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you do it you can take anything into your own hands
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take your health into your own hands take your english into your own hands all over the place
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i use this all the time, it means messy, no pattern, everywhere at once.
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My notes are all over the place.
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First and foremost, it means most importantly, before anything else.
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There is no such thing as a linear career path.
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Like it's all over the place.
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So the more that people first and foremost recognize that you have to take your career into your own hands,
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there's no natural path that exists that you just get on.
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Number three is from Blake Schall.
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He was an engineer at Amazon when Amazon was still small and now he's building a supersonic passenger jet.
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His company's called Boom.
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Here he's talking about running a huge project at Amazon when he was 24.
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I always felt like I was just like an inch from screwing it up enough
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that they would fire me and put somebody who actually knew what they were doing in charge of it.
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I always felt like I was just like an inch from screwing it up enough
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that they would fire me and put somebody who actually knew what they were doing in charge of it.
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Screw it up, it means to make a big mistake, to ruin something.
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very informal and native speakers use it constantly.
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I screwed up, don't screw this up, we screwed up the order.
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An inch from.
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An inch is about two and a half centimeters.
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So it means extremely close to ruining it.
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One tiny step away.
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And the end of the sentence, somebody who actually knew what they were doing, that's the feeling that everyone has in a new job.
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Everybody else knows what they're doing and I'm an inch from screwing it up.
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I wanted to hear how he says screwing it up.
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Three words, but they come out as one.
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Now shadow the whole thing.
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I always felt like I was just like an inch from screwing it up enough
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that they would fire me and put somebody who actually knew what they were doing in charge of it.
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I don't know if you've ever had this problem, but when people tell you just speak more English, do you ever wonder like how with whom?
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What do you say when you freeze?
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So let me be practical for one minute.
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If you understand everything that i'm saying right now
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but you still freeze up when you have to speak
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or you struggle with fast real world english that's the exact intermediate plateau
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so many learners get stuck on
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that is why we create our course from intermediate to advanced
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it's a seven -week program with 35 short practical lessons covering grammar vocabulary pronunciation
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and how to actually start thinking in english plus starting from the standard package
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you get a live speaking session with a native speaker every single week
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so you get real -time practice instead of passive watching.
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More than 20 ,000 students have already gone through this program.
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One of our students, Tom, said it was the only school in his life where he attended every single lesson with pleasure
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and his dream finally came true.
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He actually started speaking English.
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Because you're watching this video, we're giving you free access to one full lesson so you can meet our teacher,
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Benya Pak, and see how he breaks down tricky topics.
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I'm pretty sure that you will get a lot of value just from this class alone, but if you want to continue,
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use the promo code LINGUA MARINA for $20 off any plan.
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The link is right in the description.
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Okay, back to our sentences.
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Number four is from Connor Grennan.
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He's the chief AI architect at NYU's business school, and he trains big companies to use AI.
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I asked him what skills people need now, and he said, everybody says, be adaptable, be curious, and then this.
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But it drives me a little nuts when people say that, because what does that mean? but it drives me a little nuts
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when people say that because what does
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that mean it drives me nuts nuts means crazy
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so it drives me nuts means it annoys me
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so much it makes me crazy you also hear it drives me crazy
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and it drives me up the wall same idea
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and a little in the middle makes it friendly it drives me a little nuts he's annoyed
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but he's smiling for example that noise is driving me nuts
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or it drives me a little nuts
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when people write you're welcome with no apostrophe i don't know
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it's just coming up with things now shadow it it's short
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so really try to match his speed but it drives me a little nuts
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when people say that because what does
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that mean this one is from marie for leo
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she started her career on wall street at the new york stock exchange
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and then built a business teaching people how to build their own businesses here she's talking about money
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and the fear that it could all disappear.
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Like, if that world happens, all bets are off.
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Then we're in like a Hunger Games situation, and it doesn't matter what I had in the bank.
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Does that make sense?
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All bets are off.
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This comes from gambling.
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If something unexpected happens in the middle of the game, all bets are canceled.
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So in real life, it means nothing we predicted counts anymore.
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Anything can happen now.
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Right before this, she says, of course the market could tank.
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Tank means collapse.
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So if the market tanks, all bets are off.
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For example, if it rains tomorrow, all bets are off.
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We'll plan something else.
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Or if the visa doesn't get approved, all bets are off.
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And a hunger game situation.
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She uses a movie title like an adjective.
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Native speakers do this all the time.
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A titanic moment.
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A home alone situation.
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Now shadow it with her.
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Like if that world happens, all bets are off.
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Then we're in like a Hunger Games situation and it doesn't matter what I had in the bank.
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Does that make sense?
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Next is Aaron Levy, one of my favorite interviews, the founder and CEO of Box.
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It's a $4 billion company and 64 % of the Fortune 500 companies use his product.
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We were talking about what he automates with AI and what he doesn't.
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There's a lot of things I could probably automate
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if I like put my mind to it really, really hard there's a lot of things i could probably automate
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if i like put my mind to it really really hard put your mind to something
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it means to decide to focus on it seriously with all your effort usually
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you hear it as encouragement you can do anything
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if you put your mind to it every american parent says this to their kids aaron uses it
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when talking about work he could automate a lot of things
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if he puts his mind to it and he chose not to. For example, I could learn to cook if I put my mind to it
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or she put her mind to it and pass the exam in three months.
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Now shadow it.
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There's a lot of things I could probably automate if I like put my mind to it really, really hard.
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Next phrase is from Bill Gurley.
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He's a venture capitalist, a general partner at Benchmark, one of the biggest names in Silicon Valley investing.
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I asked him about parents who push their kids into safe jobs.
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If you're in these roles you don't really care that much about and you're not pushing yourself to improve,
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you're kind of a sitting duck anyway, like for these things.
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If you're in these roles you don't really care that much about and you're not pushing yourself to improve,
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you're kind of a sitting duck anyway, like for these things.
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A sitting duck.
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Picture a duck sitting on the water.
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It's not moving, so for a hunter, it's the easiest target in the world.
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A sitting duck is a person who's an easy target who can't protect themselves.
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They're talking about people in jobs they don't care about with AI coming.
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He says that if you're not improving, you're a sitting duck.
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For example, if you never update your phone, you're a sitting duck for hackers.
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Or without a lawyer in that meeting, he was a sitting duck.
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And notice, kind of a sitting duck?
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Native speakers put kind of in front of strong phrases to soften them a little.
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It's still a sitting duck, but it sounds less harsh.
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And by the way, pushing yourself to improve, that's what you're doing right now.
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Now shadow it with me.
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If you're in these roles you don't really care that much about, and you're not pushing yourself to improve,
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you're kind of a sitting duck anyway, like for these things.
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Next one is from Eric Bjernevsen.
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He's an economist at Stanford who has spent 30 years studying what technology does to jobs, and he also teaches.
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So this one is about his students.
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My students don't love it when I cold call on them, but I ask them to, you know, think on their feet and define the problem.
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My students don't love it when I cold call on them, but I ask them to think on their feet and define the problem.
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Two phrases in one sentence, and both of them are about surprise.
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And by the way, Stanford professors.
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So, you know, if you're dreaming of studying in a top university, he represents the type of people you will be learning from.
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Cold call.
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In sales, a cold call is when you phone a stranger with no warning and offer something.
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But a teacher can cold call too.
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It means asking a student without warning.
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No hands up, just you answer and think on your feet.
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It means to react quickly without any preparation.
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You didn't plan it, but you handle it anyway. And actually, that's exactly what shadowing trains thinking on your feet in english for example
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i'm terrible at thinking on my feed during interviews
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or she can really think on her feet now shadow the whole sentence my students don't love it
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when i cold call on them
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but i ask them to you know think on their feet
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and define the problem next is chris petrigal ceo
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and co -founder of granola it's an ai notepad valued at one
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and a half billion dollars and my team actually uses that every day.
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Here's he talking about how they started.
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We'll do whatever it takes to learn as quickly as possible what we need to do to make our product better.
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We'll do whatever it takes to learn as quickly as possible what we need to do to make our product better.
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Whatever it takes, it means we will do anything necessary.
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If it needs 10 hours, then 10 hours.
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If it needs 100, 100.
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This is a phrase you'll hear in sports, in business, in movies.
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I'll do whatever it takes to get this job.
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We'll do whatever it takes to make this work.
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Now shadow it.
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We'll do whatever it takes to learn as quickly as possible what we need to do to make our product better.
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Okay, three more.
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Priscilla Chan again, and this time she's talking about how fast science could move with AI.
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And that's how we're going to be able to move this forward in a pace
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that hopefully will blow all of our minds.
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Blow your mind.
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It means to amaze you completely, to surprise you
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so much you can't believe it this movie blew my mind
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this technology is blowing my mind the view from the top blew my mind
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she says blow all of our minds
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which means everyone's including hers for example the first time
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i heard my own voice in english on a recording
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it blew my mind in a bad way we by the way humans are wired in a way
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that we hate hearing our own voice now let's say it with her
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and that's how we're going to be able to move this forward in a pace
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that hopefully will blow all of our minds.
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Next is Grant Lee, co -founder and CEO of Gamma, the AI tool that turns one prompt into finished presentation.
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Here he's talking about the first six months of building it.
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Even after six months, we're barely scratching the surface on like the possibilities.
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Even after six months, we were barely scratching the surface on the possibilities.
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Scratching the surface.
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Imagine something deep and you're.. only touching the very top of it.
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That means you've only just started, there is so much more underneath, and barely makes it even smaller,
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barely scratching the surface, almost not even started.
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For example, coming up with it, we've been in Japan for a week and we've barely scratched the surface.
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Or this video is just scratching the surface of what these people say.
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Now say it with him.
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Even after six months, we're barely scratching the surface on like the possibilities.
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And our last one is from one of my favorite people
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and probably a lot of you guys know her her name
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is mel robbins she's a best -selling author her book let
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them is one of the fastest selling non -fiction books ever
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and she hosts the mel robbins podcast this is her advice for anyone who feels behind and if you
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just keep putting your head down and you keep defining what you want
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and you keep inching yourself forward and you really work on being a good person too, that it will work out for you.
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If you just keep putting your head down and you keep defining what you want and you keep inching yourself forward,
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it will work out for you.
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Two phrases in one sentence.
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Put your head down.
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It means work hard and don't look around.
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Don't compare yourself to other people.
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Don't get distracted.
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Just work.
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And inch yourself forward.
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I love that.
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Remember Blake?
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An inch from screwing it up same word an inch is a tiny measurement two and a half centimeters centimeters
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so inching forward means moving very slowly tiny bit at a time
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but moving i love this one for english put your head down inch forward
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it will work out now shadow the whole thing and if you
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just keep putting your head down and you keep defining what you want
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and you keep inching yourself forward and you really work on being a good person too, that it will work out for you.
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And that's our last one.
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We've barely scratched the surface, but look at what you just did.
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You shadowed real English from real native speakers at their natural speed.
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That's a big step.
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So put your head down, keep inching forward, and it will work out for you.
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If you found it hard to shadow some of these phrases, go through them once or twice more until they start to feel natural.
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And comment below with one of the phrases you shadowed today.
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I will be reading your comments.
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That's it for today.
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Thank you guys so much for watching this video up to the very end.
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Please subscribe, please like, and share with someone who's also learning English.
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I will see you very soon.
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Bye -bye.
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Wortschatz und Sprechhinweise zu dieser Lektion
Diese Sprechübung basiert auf dem Video „I analyzed 120,000 words by native speakers. Here's what they actually say“. Dieses Video enthält 289 Sätze und 3330 Wörter zum Nachsprechen. Der gesprochene Teil dauert 17:44. Der Sprecher spricht schnell, etwa 188 Wörter pro Minute – rechne mit verbundenen und verkürzten Lauten. 86 % der Wörter gehören zu den 3.000 häufigsten im Englischen; den Rest solltest du dir vor dem Üben ansehen.
Wichtiger Wortschatz in diesem Video
15 lernenswerte Wörter aus dem Video, mit Aussprache und Bedeutung:
| Wort | Aussprache | Bedeutung |
|---|---|---|
| shadow Substantiv | /ˈʃædəʊ̯/ | Schatten |
| duck Substantiv | /dʌk/ | Ente, Ant |
| phrase Substantiv | /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/ | Redewendung, Phrase |
| scratch Verb | /skɹæt͡ʃ/ | kratzen |
| define Verb | /dɪˈfaɪn/ | bestimmen |
| founder Substantiv | /ˈfaʊ̯n.dəː/ | Gründer, Gründerin |
| immune Adjektiv | /ɪˈmjuːn/ | immun |
| lesson Substantiv | /ˈlɛs.ən/ | Lehrstunde, Stunde |
| hunger Substantiv | /ˈhʌŋɡɚ/ | Hunger |
| practical Adjektiv | /ˈpɹæk.tɪ.kəl/ | praktisch |
| pace Substantiv | /peɪs/ | Schritt |
| ruin Substantiv | /ˈɹuː.ɪn/ | Ruine |
| linear Adjektiv | /ˈlɪn.i.əɹ/ | linear |
| freeze Verb | /ˈfɹiːz/ | gefrieren |
| topic Substantiv | /ˈtɑpɪk/ | Thema |
Phrasal Verbs, die du hören wirst
| Wort | Aussprache | Bedeutung |
|---|---|---|
| come up with Verb | ausdenken | |
| break down Verb | versagen, den Geist aufgeben | |
| come out Verb | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | herauskommen |
| go back Verb | zurückgehen, zurückfahren | |
| hands up | /hæn(d)ˈzʌp/ | Hände hoch! |
| keep up with Verb | mithalten, mit etwas Schritt halten | |
| look around Verb | sich umsehen, sich umschauen | |
| turn out Verb | sich herausstellen als/dass, sich erweisen als |
Sätze zum Wiederholen
Kurze, vollständige Sätze aus dem Video, die du im Alltag wiederverwenden kannst:
- What do you say when you freeze?
- You didn't plan it, but you handle it anyway.
- I'll do whatever it takes to get this job.
- We'll do whatever it takes to make this work.
- Imagine something deep and you're..
Grammatik in diesem Video
Die Strukturen, die der Sprecher am häufigsten verwendet, mit den genauen Worten aus dem Video:
| Struktur | Im Video |
|---|---|
| Present Perfect have/has + Partizip Perfekt – eine vergangene Handlung, die jetzt noch wichtig ist | have learned · you've ever had · have already gone |
| Relativsätze who / which + Satz – eine Zusatzinformation über eine Person oder Sache | somebody who actually · anyone who feels |
| Passiv be + Partizip Perfekt – wichtig ist, was geschieht, nicht wer es tut | were taught · are canceled · are wired |
Aussprache, auf die du achten solltest
Der Sprecher verwendet 67 Kurzformen und abgeschwächte Formen, zum Beispiel you're, don't, we're. Sprich sie in der kurzen Form, so wie du sie hörst.
- Die „th“-Laute: breathe /bɹiːð/, underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/
- Die Laute „sh“ und „zh“: shadow /ˈʃædəʊ̯/, fiction /ˈfɪkʃən/, preparation /ˌpɹɛpəˈɹeɪʃ(ə)n/, presentation /ˌpɹɛzn̩ˈteɪʃn̩/, examination /ɪɡˌzæm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/
- Lange Wörter – auf die Betonung achten: intermediate /ɪn.tə(ɹ)ˈmi.di.ət/, preparation /ˌpɹɛpəˈɹeɪʃ(ə)n/, examination /ɪɡˌzæm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/, unexpected /ʌnɪkˈspɛktɪd/, importantly /ɪmˈpɔɹ.tənt.li/
Laute, die Deutschsprachigen schwerfallen:
- /w/ — mit runden Lippen, nicht wie das deutsche „w“ (/v/): wire /ˈwaɪɚ/, whack /ˈwæk/
- Stimmhafter Auslaut — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ am Wortende nicht verhärten: phrase /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/, freeze /ˈfɹiːz/, package /ˈpæk.ɪd͡ʒ/, unexpected /ʌnɪkˈspɛktɪd/, approve /əˈpɹuːv/
- /æ/ — offener als „ä“: shadow /ˈʃædəʊ̯/, scratch /skɹæt͡ʃ/, practical /ˈpɹæk.tɪ.kəl/, package /ˈpæk.ɪd͡ʒ/, passenger /ˈpæs.ɪn.d͡ʒɚ/
So übst du mit diesem Video
- Höre dir das ganze Video einmal an, ohne zu sprechen, und notiere die Wörter, die du nicht kennst.
- Beginne mit 0,75-facher Geschwindigkeit, sprich Satz für Satz nach und wechsle zur normalen Geschwindigkeit, sobald es leichtfällt.
- Nimm dich auf und vergleiche mit dem Original; achte dabei auf Wörter wie shadow, duck, phrase.
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.