Shadowing Practice: #Anne Hathaway #advice on Being Kind to Yourself - Learn English Speaking with Video

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A lot of people today, especially the age of my women, face success and failure in their career.
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And I've seen some people who tell themselves it was just a fluke when things go well.
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But when things go badly, they easily blame themselves.
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That's what I do sometimes too.
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Then how can we learn to be kinder to ourselves?
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I actually have advice for this.
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This is something I learned from a doctor.
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Because I was having a hard time figuring out how to speak kindly to myself.
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And he asked me to take my favorite picture of myself from when I was a little girl.
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And he said, okay, put the photo face down, say everything that you feel about yourself.
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And I said it.
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He said, okay, now pick up the photo and say the exact same thing to her.
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Couldn't do it.
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Oh, wow.
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I just couldn't do it.
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She didn't deserve it.
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And so I have an inner child, so why would I speak like that to myself?
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I would never speak that way to a child, ever, ever, ever, ever.
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That was kind of the beginning of me learning that we all deserve to speak kindly to each other, including ourselves phototherapy.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Hathaway on Being Kind to Yourself”. This video has 20 sentences and 211 words to shadow. The speech runs for 1:00. The speaker talks fast, about 212 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 87% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.

Key vocabulary in this video

The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
kindly adverb/ˈkaɪn(d)li/In a kind manner, out of kindness.
badly adverb/ˈbæd.li/In a bad manner.
fluke noun/fluk/Any of the triangular blades at the end of an anchor, designed to catch the ground.
phototherapy nounThe use of light to treat disorders of the skin, and certain mood disorders.
ourselves/aʊɚˈsɛlvz/Us; the group including the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition when that group also is the subject.
deserve verb/dɪˈzɝv/To be entitled to, as a result of past actions; to be worthy to have.
blame verb/bleɪm/To assert or consider that someone is the cause of something negative; to place blame; to attribute responsibility (for something negative or for doing…
favourite adjective/ˈfeɪv.ɹɪt/Most-liked. (In other words, [person]'s favorite [noun] = the [noun] that [person] likes the most.)
exact adjective/ɪɡˈzækt/Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect.
inner adjective/ˈɪnə/Being or occurring (farther) inside, situated farther in, located (situated) or happening on the inside of something, situated within or farther within…
photo verb/ˈfəʊ̯.təʊ̯/To take a photograph of.
beginning noun/bɪˈɡɪn.ɪŋ/The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort…
easily adverb/ˈi.zɪ.li/Comfortably, without discomfort or anxiety.
doctor noun/ˈdɑktɚ/A physician; a member of the medical profession; one who is trained and licensed to heal the sick or injured. The final examination and qualification may award…
advice noun/ədˈvaɪs/An opinion offered to guide behavior in an effort to be helpful.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

WordMeaning
figure out verbTo come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.
pick up verbTo lift; to grasp and raise.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

  • That's what I do sometimes too.
  • Then how can we learn to be kinder to ourselves?
  • I just couldn't do it.

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 4 contractions and reduced forms, such as couldn't, didn't, I've. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

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 kindly, badly, fluke.

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