Shadowing Practice: A2 English Listening Practice - Soft Skills - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Hey English learners, welcome to this A2 English listening practice video.
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In today's video, I'm going to talk about soft skills.
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Soft skills are the skills that we have that aren't technical, right?
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In particular, today, I want to talk about soft skills related to communication and how you can use these skills,
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these soft skills, to improve your communication.
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And of course, when you speak English,
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when you speak a foreign language,
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it's good to have these skills.
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They'll make your communication better and more effective in any language that you speak.
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So that's what we're going to talk about today.
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And remember to check out my listening practice seminars.
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You can join my membership and get access to those seminars to help you understand when native speakers speak fast.
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I know that a lot of you have trouble understanding fast English,
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and that's why I have those seminars to help you train
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and help you understand different patterns that can be hard to understand when people speak fast.
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And also, if you want to start speaking and you need a teacher,
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then I highly recommend that you check out my U.S.
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Conversations podcast because in that podcast,
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I talk to many different English teachers from around the U.S.
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And so you can hear and listen to my conversations with those teachers
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and see if you like them and take a class with one of them.
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So those links are down below.
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Okay, let's talk about soft skills.
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So as I already mentioned,
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soft skills are the skills that we have that aren't technical.
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So both soft skills and hard skills are important.
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In some fields, hard skills are more important than soft skills.
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But in some fields, soft skills might be equally as important or even more important than hard skills.
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And for me, in my experience,
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I don't have a lot of hard skills.
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I don't have a lot of technical skills except for skills related to language,
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writing, linguistics, things like that.
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But I do have some soft skills that have helped me develop my career.
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Specifically, my way of communicating,
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my way of speaking these skills have helped me make content for English learners
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and people tend to like my way of talking the way I speak and so these aren't technical skills,
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these are soft skills, but they have been really important for me in my career.
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And I think that soft skills related to communication are really important.
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And you are a language learner and so you should care about
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communicating well and having good soft skills that can help you
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when you interact with other people in English or in any other language.
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So let me talk about some specific soft skills related to communication that can really help you.
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So number one is adjusting your speech to different audiences.
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So many people lack this skill.
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They aren't able to change the way that they speak depending on who is listening to them.
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And I think most people could improve in this area.
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I've seen many instances where an English speaker is talking to someone who doesn't speak English well,
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but the English speaker doesn't change the way that they speak to help the other person understand them.
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They just talk really fast and use complicated phrases and idioms and things like that.
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And they aren't able to adjust the way that they speak so that the person listening to them can understand better.
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And this isn't just for talking to people who don't speak your language well.
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We talk differently to adults,
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to kids, teenagers, people who are a lot older than us,
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people who we need to show a lot of respect towards.
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There are different ways to talk to different people
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and we need to use the appropriate language and tone and formality depending on our audience.
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So this is an important soft skill to have
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because it will allow you to communicate in the proper way to different people.
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And that is something that we want to be able to do.
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Another soft skill related to communication is being able to read other people meaning you can see the other person
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and feel how they are feeling and you can imagine how they might be thinking how comfortable they are,
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things like that.
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You want to be able to tell when a person is uncomfortable,
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when they're uneasy, like they don't feel very good,
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or maybe if they're uninterested in what you're saying,
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or if if they're not understanding what you're saying.
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It's important to be able to identify this so that you can adjust the way that you're talking
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so that the other person responds better, right?
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I think that's an important soft skill to have.
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It can help you keep the other person engaged and comfortable with the conversation, right?
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Another soft skill that's really important is being able to listen well.
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Be a good listener, right?
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We want to listen to other people with interest.
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We want to be genuinely interested what other people are saying.
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When you show a genuine interest, people can feel that.
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People see that and it makes them feel more comfortable around you.
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It makes them want to talk to you.
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So that's good and it's good to show
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that you're listening right you nod you use some affirmations like yes uh-huh you show the other person
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that you're listening that's important uh it's good to react to what the other person is saying it shows
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that you're listening when you have a genuine reaction
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when they say different things um it's good to ask questions about things that they say.
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All of these things are part of being a good listener and they will help you have better interactions with people.
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It's also a good thing to be able to create a comfortable atmosphere.
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That's a good soft skill.
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Smile and laugh.
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That's important.
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Add humor when it's appropriate.
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People like to laugh.
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They like humor.
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If you can add this naturally to the interaction, that can really help.
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It makes the other person feel better when talking to you.
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They're more interested in talking to you, probably.
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And you want to make the other person feel comfortable sharing their opinions,
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talking about their feelings, sharing stories with you.
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You want to create a comfortable atmosphere so that the other person feels comfortable to do those things.
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And one other soft skill that is important to have is to be concise,
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meaning you can communicate something effectively without using too many words.
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It's okay to talk and use a lot of words.
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That's not bad.
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when we're trying to communicate important ideas,
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it's important to be able to do so in a concise way to really help them understand the point.
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I've had this experience before where I'm in a group of people
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and one person starts telling a story and they're not being concise
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and it's hard to understand what the point of the story
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is until the very end after they've talked for a long time
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and I can see that the other people are kind of losing interest
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and they don't get the point of what is being said because the other person who's telling the story isn't being concise.
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They aren't able to effectively communicate the message in a concise way,
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and that causes other people to lose interest,
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or they stop paying attention,
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or they just wonder, hmm,
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why is he telling this story?
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So being concise is an important soft skill to have.
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There are many other soft skills that are important,
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but those are the ones I wanted to talk about today.
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Hopefully, this video got you thinking about how you can improve in these areas
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so that you can have better interactions in English or in your native language.
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So, I hope you enjoyed this video.
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remember to check out my listening practice seminars by becoming a Listening Time family member
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so you can train your listening with me and start to understand better when people speak fast.
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And check out my U.S.
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Conversations podcast so you can practice listening to my conversations that I have with other English teachers.
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So that's a great resource for your listening
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and you can also use it to find an English teacher to take classes online with.
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So those links are down below.
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Thank you all for listening to this A2 English Listening Practice video,
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and I'll talk to you in the next one.

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שיעור הדיבור הזה ברמה A2 מבוסס על הסרטון “A2 English Listening Practice - Soft Skills”. המילים שחוזרות הכי הרבה: skill, soft, listening, English, speak. בסרטון הזה יש 128 משפטים ו-1434 מילים לתרגול Shadowing. הדיבור נמשך 14:04. הדובר מדבר לאט, כ-102 מילים בדקה, כך שיש זמן לחקות כל צליל. 90% מהמילים נמצאות בין 3,000 המילים הנפוצות ביותר באנגלית, כך שקל לעקוב אחרי אוצר המילים.

אוצר מילים מרכזי בסרטון הזה

15 מילים מהסרטון שכדאי ללמוד, עם ההגייה והמשמעות שלהן:

מילההגייהמשמעות
skill שם עצם/skɪl/מְיֻמָּנוּת, כִּשּׁוּרִים
seminar שם עצם/ˈsɛmɪnɑɹ/סֶמִינָר
interaction שם עצם/ˌɪn.təˈɹæk.ʃən/יַחֲסֵי גּוֹמְלִין, אִינְטֶרְאַקְצְיָה
podcast שם עצם/ˈpɑdˌkæst/פּוֹדְקַאסְט, הֶסְכֵּת
adjust פועל/əˈd͡ʒʌst/כוונן, התאים
atmosphere שם עצם/ˈætməsˌfɪɹ/אטמוספירה \ אַטְמוֹסְפֶרָה
genuine שם תואר/ˈd͡ʒɛn.juˌɪn/מקורי, אמתי
depend פועל/dɪˈpɛnd/היה תלוי
humour שם עצם/ˈhjuːmɚ/הוּמוֹר
listener שם עצם/ˈlɪs(ə)nɚ/מַאֲזִין
tone שם עצם/ˈtəʊn/צְלִיל, טוֹן
complicated שם תואר/ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/מסובך, מְסֻבָּךְ
membership שם עצםחֲבֵרוּת
resource שם עצם/ɹɪˈzɔːs/מַשְׁאָב
phrase שם עצם/ˈfɹeɪ̯z/צֵרוּף לָשׁוֹן, מִשְׁפָּט

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משפטים שכדאי לחזור עליהם

משפטים קצרים ושלמים מהסרטון שאפשר להשתמש בהם בשיחה יומיומית:

  • I don't have a lot of hard skills.
  • I think that's an important soft skill to have.
  • They're more interested in talking to you, probably.

דקדוק בסרטון הזה

המבנים שהדובר משתמש בהם הכי הרבה, עם המילים המדויקות מהסרטון:

מבנהבסרטון
הווה מושלם (Present perfect) have/has + past participle — פעולה שקרתה בעבר ועדיין יש לה חשיבות או השפעה עכשיוhave helped · have been · I've seen
משפטי זיקה (Relative clauses) who / which + clause — מידע נוסף על אדם או דברsomeone who doesn · people who don · people who are
פועל + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — פעלים שמתחברים ל-ing אחריהםstart speaking · starts telling · stop paying
השוואות (Comparatives) -er than / more … than — השוואה בין שני דבריםmore important than · older than

הגייה ששווה לשים לב אליה

הדובר משתמש ב-35 קיצורים וצורות מקוצרות, כמו aren't, you're, don't. אמרו אותם בצורה הקצרה, כפי שאתם שומעים אותם.

  • הצלילים של “sh” ו-“zh”: interaction /ˌɪn.təˈɹæk.ʃən/, affirmation /æfɝˈmeɪʃn/
  • מילים ארוכות — שימו לב להטעמה: communicate /kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/, interaction /ˌɪn.təˈɹæk.ʃən/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, complicated /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/, differently /ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/

צלילים שדוברי עברית מתקשים בהם:

  • /w/ — שפתיים מעוגלות, לא /v/: equally /ˈiːkwəli/, linguistics /lɪŋˈɡwɪstɪks/
  • /æ/ — פתוח יותר מה-“אֶ” העברית, לא כמו “a” ב-“cup”: interaction /ˌɪn.təˈɹæk.ʃən/, podcast /ˈpɑdˌkæst/, atmosphere /ˈætməsˌfɪɹ/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, react /ɹiːˈækt/
  • /r/ — הלשון לא נוגעת בשום מקום, לא ה-“ר” הגרונית: seminar /ˈsɛmɪnɑɹ/, interaction /ˌɪn.təˈɹæk.ʃən/, atmosphere /ˈætməsˌfɪɹ/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, resource /ɹɪˈzɔːs/

איך לתרגל עם הסרטון הזה

  1. הקשיבו לכל הסרטון פעם אחת בלי לדבר, ורשמו את המילים שאתם לא מכירים.
  2. תרגלו Shadowing משפט אחר משפט במהירות רגילה, וחזרו על כל משפט עד שהקצב שלכם תואם את הדובר.
  3. הקליטו את עצמכם והשוו למקור, תוך תשומת לב למילים כמו skill, seminar, interaction.

מהי טכניקת השאדואינג?

שאדואינג היא טכניקת למידת שפה מבוססת מדע שפותחה במקור להכשרת מתורגמנים מקצועיים ופופולרית על ידי הפוליגלוט ד"ר אלכסנדר ארגואלס. השיטה פשוטה אך עוצמתית: אתה מקשיב לאודיו באנגלית ילידית וחוזר עליו בקול רם מיד — כמו צל העוקב אחרי הדובר עם עיכוב של 1–2 שניות בלבד. בניגוד להאזנה פסיבית או תרגילי דקדוק, שאדואינג מכריח את המוח והשרירים בפה לעבד ולשחזר דפוסי דיבור אמיתיים בו זמנית. מחקרים מראים שזה משפר משמעותית את דיוק ההגייה, האינטונציה, הקצב, הדיבור המחובר, הבנת השמיעה ושטף הדיבור — מה שהופך אותו לאחת השיטות היעילות ביותר להכנה לIELTS Speaking ולתקשורת באנגלית בעולם האמיתי.

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