Shadowing Practice: EVERY LEVEL OF MANIPULATION - Learn English Speaking with Video
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There are seven levels of manipulation, and most people can only spot the first two.
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Everything above that doesn't feel like manipulation at all.
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It feels like friendship.
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It feels like love.
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And sometimes, it feels like your own idea.
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That's what makes the higher levels so dangerous.
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By the time you notice them, they've usually been working on you for months.
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By the end of this video, you'll be able to recognize all seven,
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and you'll know the one question that protects you from every single one of them.
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Let's start with the easiest to see.
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Level 1.
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Flattery.
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You're so smart.
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I knew you'd understand.
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Honestly, you're the only one I can talk to about this.
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Someone as talented as you could do this in five minutes.
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This is Level 1.
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Manipulation through compliments.
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It's the oldest trick there is, and most people think they're immune to it.
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You hear an obviously fake compliment, you roll your eyes, and you move on.
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But a 2010 study found something uncomfortable.
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Researchers showed people flattering messages they knew were insincere, sales pitches that were clearly buttering them up.
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People dismissed the flattery consciously, but deeper, measured attitudes toward the flatterer still shifted in a positive direction,
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and that hidden effect lasted longer than the conscious rejection.
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In other words, you can see through flattery and still be moved by it.
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Flattery is level one because it's mostly harmless.
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Your guard goes down a little, and that's all.
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But a guard that goes down a little is exactly what
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Level 2 needs.
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Level 2 – The Favor Someone does something nice for you that you never asked for.
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They buy you a coffee, they help you move a box, they send you a small gift.
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And a few days later, they ask for something much bigger.
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In 1971, psychologist Dennis Regan ran a simple experiment.
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Participants were paired with a stranger who was secretly working for the researchers.
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During a break, the stranger left the room and came back with a bottle of Coke for the participant, without being asked.
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Later, the stranger asked the participant to buy raffle tickets.
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People who'd received the Coke bought about twice as many tickets as those who hadn't.
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And here's the part that matters.
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It barely mattered whether they actually liked the stranger.
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That's the power of reciprocity.
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A small, unrequested favor creates a feeling of debt.
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And that feeling of debt doesn't care whether the deal is fair.
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At level two, you're not being tricked.
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You're being made to feel like you owe something.
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And once you've paid a little, it gets easier to ask for more.
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Level three, the small yes.
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At level three, nobody asks you for the big thing.
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They ask for something tiny.
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Just a quick favor.
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Just this once.
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Just a small exception.
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In 1966, researchers Jonathan Friedman and Scott Frazier asked homeowners in California to put a large,
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ugly sign in their front yard that said, drive carefully.
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Most people refused.
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But a different group of homeowners had been asked, two weeks earlier, to put a tiny, almost invisible sign about safe driving in their window.
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Most of them agreed to that.
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And later, when they were asked about the big, ugly sign, a large majority said yes.
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Psychologists call it the foot -in -the -door technique.
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Once you've said yes to something small, you start to see yourself as the kind of person who says yes
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and saying no to the next step would feel like going against yourself
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this is where manipulation stops being about one moment
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and becomes about a direction every small yes moves the line a little further
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and you never notice the line moving because each single step looks so small
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and that's where the dangerous levels begin level four love bombing
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it starts like a dream someone new comes into your life and they're completely obsessed with you.
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Constant messages, big compliments, plans for the future after two weeks.
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You've never felt so seen.
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Then, suddenly, it changes.
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They go cold.
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They're distant.
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You don't know what you did wrong.
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And then, just as suddenly, the warmth comes back and the relief feels incredible.
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This is level four, and it's built on one of the most powerful forces in psychology.
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In the 1950s, psychologist B .F.
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Skinner studied how animals learn.
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He found that when a reward came every time, animals learned quickly but quit quickly once the reward stopped.
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When the reward came unpredictably, sometimes yes, sometimes no, the behavior became incredibly persistent.
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Unpredictable rewards are the same principle that keeps people pulling the lever on slot machines.
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At level 4, affection becomes the reward, and the manipulator controls when it arrives.
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You don't stay because things are good, you stay waiting for the good to come back.
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Once someone has that kind of hold over your emotions, the next step.. is to make sure nobody else can loosen it.
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Level 5.
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Isolation.
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It never starts with, don't see your friends.
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It starts with small comments.
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Your sister doesn't really get you like I do.
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I just feel like your friends are a bit jealous of us.
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Why do you need to go out when we have such a good time here?
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Slowly, your world gets smaller.
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You see your friends less.
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You stop telling your family what's going on because they'd only worry.
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And without anyone else around, there's no one to say, hey, that's not normal.
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That's why isolation is one of the clearest warning signs of what experts call coercive control,
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a pattern of behavior used to dominate another person over time.
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It's taken so seriously that in 2015, England and Wales made coercive control in relationships a criminal offense.
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At level five, the manipulator becomes your only mirror, and whoever controls the mirror can start to change what you see.
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Level six, gaslighting.
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That never happened.
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You're remembering it wrong.
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You're being way too sensitive.
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Everyone agrees with me, you know.
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The name comes from Gaslight, a 1938 play that became a famous 1944 film.
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In it, a husband secretly dims the gaslights in the house, and when his wife notices, he insists she's imagining it,
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until she starts to doubt her own mind.
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The word became so common that Merriam -Webster named gaslighting its word of the year in 2022.
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Here's why it works.
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Your memory is not a recording.
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In a famous 1974 study, psychologist Elizabeth Loftus showed people a film of a car crash.
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Afterwards, some were asked how fast the cars were going when they smashed into each other.
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Others were asked about the cars that hit each other.
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The smashed group gave higher speed estimates, and a week later, they were more likely to remember broken glass that was never in the film.
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One word changed what people remembered.
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Now imagine someone you trust doing that to you every day, for months.
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At level 6, you stop trusting your own mind.
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And once that happens, you'll believe almost anything the manipulator tells you, including the final lie.
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Level 7.
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You.
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The final level is the hardest to see, because there's no one else in the room.
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At level 7, the manipulation runs by itself.
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You defend the person who hurts you.
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You explain away the warning signs before your friends can point them out.
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You tell yourself it's not that bad, that everyone has problems, that it's probably your fault anyway.
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The manipulator doesn't need to do anything anymore.
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You've learned to do it for them.
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But level 7 isn't only about other people.
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It's also every time you tell yourself the story you want to hear.
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One more episode.
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I'll start on Monday.
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This time it'll be different.
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The physicist Richard Feynman once said it perfectly.
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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
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At level 7, you realize the most persuasive voice in your life has always been your own.
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And that means the defense was always going to have to start there, too.
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But here's the part most people miss.
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These levels don't always come in order.
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Some people go straight to level 4.
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Some stay at level 1 for years.
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And every one of us uses the lower levels sometimes, a little flattery, a favor when we want something.
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That doesn't make you a monster.
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What matters is whether someone is trying to work with you or work on you.
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So here's the one question that protects you from all seven levels.
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Next time someone asks you for something, pause and ask yourself, what happens if I say no?
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At level one, a no to someone flattering you gets you a shrug.
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At level 2, it reveals whether the favor was a gift or a trap.
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At level 3, it stops the line from moving.
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At level 4, watch whether the warmth suddenly disappears.
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At level 5, notice whether they make you feel guilty for having other people in your life.
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At level 6, notice whether a no is suddenly something you made up.
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And at level 7, ask yourself the same question.
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If someone you love wanted to leave this situation, what would you tell them?
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Healthy people can hear no. Manipulators can't.
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And if parts of this video felt a little too familiar, talk to someone you trust outside the relationship.
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That's the first step back to seeing clearly.
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Tell me in the comments which level you think is the most dangerous. And subscribe!
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Because next time, we're going inside the mind of someone who does all seven, and why the people around them almost never notice.
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אוצר מילים והערות הגייה לשיעור הזה
שיעור הדיבור הזה מבוסס על הסרטון “EVERY LEVEL OF MANIPULATION”. בסרטון הזה יש 155 משפטים ו-1595 מילים לתרגול Shadowing. הדיבור נמשך 9:26. הדובר מדבר בקצב טבעי של כ-169 מילים בדקה, קרוב לשיחה יומיומית. 86% מהמילים נמצאות בין 3,000 המילים הנפוצות ביותר באנגלית; כדאי ללמוד את השאר לפני שמתחילים.
אוצר מילים מרכזי בסרטון הזה
15 מילים מהסרטון שכדאי ללמוד, עם ההגייה והמשמעות שלהן:
| מילה | הגייה | משמעות |
|---|---|---|
| reward שם עצם | /ɹɪˈwɔɹd/ | פְּרָס, שָׂכָר |
| psychologist שם עצם | /ˌsaɪˈkɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/ | פְּסִיכוֹלוֹג, פסיכולוגית |
| compliment שם עצם | /ˈkɑmpləmənt/ | מחמאה |
| participant שם עצם | /pɑːɹˈtɪsəpənt/ | מִשׁתַתֵף |
| trick שם עצם | /ˈtɹɪk/ | טריק, תכסיס |
| mirror שם עצם | /ˈmiɹɚ/ | מַרְאָה, רְאִי |
| ugly שם תואר | /ˈʌɡli/ | מכוער \ מְכֹעָר |
| principle שם עצם | /ˈpɹɪn.sɪ.pəl/ | עִקָּרוֹן |
| defend פועל | /dɪˈfɪnd/ | הֵגֵן |
| technique שם עצם | /tɛkˈniːk/ | טֶכְנִיקָה |
| sensitive שם תואר | /ˈsɛn.sɪt.ɪv/ | רגיש |
| reveal פועל | /ɹɪˈviːl/ | גילה, חשף |
| afterwards תואר הפועל | /ˈæf.tɚ.wɚdz/ | אחר־כך |
| butter שם עצם | /ˈbʌtɚ/ | חֶמְאָה |
| friendship שם עצם | /ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/ | יְדִידוּת |
Phrasal verbs שתשמעו
| מילה | משמעות |
|---|---|
| come back פועל | שָׁב |
| go down פועל | ירד |
| go out פועל | יָצָא |
משפטים שכדאי לחזור עליהם
משפטים קצרים ושלמים מהסרטון שאפשר להשתמש בהם בשיחה יומיומית:
- Let's start with the easiest to see.
- Your guard goes down a little, and that's all.
- At level two, you're not being tricked.
- You're being made to feel like you owe something.
- You've never felt so seen.
דקדוק בסרטון הזה
המבנים שהדובר משתמש בהם הכי הרבה, עם המילים המדויקות מהסרטון:
| מבנה | בסרטון |
|---|---|
| סביל (Passive voice) be + past participle — הדגש הוא על מה שקורה, לא על מי שעושה את הפעולה | be moved · were paired · being asked |
| הווה מושלם (Present perfect) have/has + past participle — פעולה שקרתה בעבר ועדיין יש לה חשיבות או השפעה עכשיו | you've paid · you've said · You've never felt |
| משפטי זיקה (Relative clauses) who / which + clause — מידע נוסף על אדם או דבר | those who hadn · person who says · person who hurts |
הגייה ששווה לשים לב אליה
הדובר משתמש ב-35 קיצורים וצורות מקוצרות, כמו you're, doesn't, don't. אמרו אותם בצורה הקצרה, כפי שאתם שומעים אותם.
- הצלילים של “sh” ו-“zh”: manipulation /məˌnɪp.juˈleɪ.ʃən/, smash /smæʃ/, isolation /ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃən/, friendship /ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/, exception /əkˈsɛpʃən/
- מילים ארוכות — שימו לב להטעמה: manipulation /məˌnɪp.juˈleɪ.ʃən/, psychologist /ˌsaɪˈkɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/, participant /pɑːɹˈtɪsəpənt/, isolation /ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃən/, experiment /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/
צלילים שדוברי עברית מתקשים בהם:
- /w/ — שפתיים מעוגלות, לא /v/: reward /ɹɪˈwɔɹd/, warmth /wɔɹmθ/, afterwards /ˈæf.tɚ.wɚdz/, persuasive /pə(ɹ)ˈsweɪsɪv/
- /æ/ — פתוח יותר מה-“אֶ” העברית, לא כמו “a” ב-“cup”: smash /smæʃ/, afterwards /ˈæf.tɚ.wɚdz/, trap /tɹæp/, talented /ˈtæləntɪd/, flattery /ˈflæt.ɚ.i/
- /r/ — הלשון לא נוגעת בשום מקום, לא ה-“ר” הגרונית: reward /ɹɪˈwɔɹd/, researcher /ˈɹiˌsɝ.t͡ʃɚ/, participant /pɑːɹˈtɪsəpənt/, trick /ˈtɹɪk/, mirror /ˈmiɹɚ/
איך לתרגל עם הסרטון הזה
- הקשיבו לכל הסרטון פעם אחת בלי לדבר, ורשמו את המילים שאתם לא מכירים.
- התחילו במהירות 0.75×, תרגלו Shadowing משפט אחר משפט, וחזרו למהירות רגילה כשזה מרגיש קל.
- הקליטו את עצמכם והשוו למקור, תוך תשומת לב למילים כמו reward, psychologist, compliment.
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