Shadowing Practice: Introducing Best of Luck with Kyla Scanlon - Learn English Speaking with Video
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How do you plan a career when nobody can tell you which jobs will even exist in five years?
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Every piece of career advice that we've been given, pick a stable field, get the right education,
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pay your dues, comes from an economy that doesn't exist anymore.
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The economic ladder doesn't go where it used to.
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So how do we make the right decisions about work in a world where the rules keep on changing?
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I'm Kyla Scanlon.
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I help make economics make sense
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and I'm launching a new show with Fox called Best of Luck that helps to answer some of these questions.
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Starting on October 27th, I'm going to have weekly conversations with everyone, from economists to farmers to comedians,
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and we're going to try to understand and define this economy that we're actually working in.
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Yes, it's scary.
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Yes, it's changing.
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But there is a way to make it work for us.
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I'm not on recession watch, but there is so much change going on under the hood of the US economy.
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Grad school is a trap and a disaster.
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Even over the last 15 years, when you look at the tech boom,
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the people who've done best in the economy are those who have great technical skills and great social skills.
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And if you only have brilliant technical skills, you're actually not near the top.
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Earlier this year, I was down 400 grand in a single day on this one trade.
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Dude, what are you treating?
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Best of luck.
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How to make work work.
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Subscribe on YouTube or your favorite podcast app for new episodes starting on October 27th.
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Whenever I read any of your newsletter posts, it's like deep economic data that combines philosophy and news.
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And you're like, I feel so smart reading this.
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It's on a screen, but I feel smart.
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And then at the end is some insane sentence that's like, but are you living up to your self -worth?
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So it's great to be experiencing this in real time.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Introducing Best of Luck with Kyla Scanlon”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: economy, skills, economic. This video has 28 sentences and 336 words to shadow. The speech runs for 1:42. The speaker talks fast, about 197 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 85% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| skill noun | /skɪl/ | A capacity to do something well; a technique, an ability, usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities that are regarded as innate. |
| stable noun | /ˈsteɪ.bəl/ | A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) ungulates, especially horses. |
| economics noun | /ˌiːkəˈnɒmɪks/ | The study of resource and wealth allocation, consumption, and distribution, of capital and investment, and of management of the factors of production. |
| insane adjective | /ɪnˈseɪn/ | Exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind; not sane; utterly mad. |
| disaster noun | /dɪˈzɑːs.təː/ | An unexpected natural or man-made catastrophe of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction, loss of life or sometimes permanent… |
| scary adjective | /ˈskɛə.ɹi/ | Causing fear or anxiety |
| boom verb | /bum/ | To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound. |
| trap noun | /tɹæp/ | A machine or other device designed to catch (and sometimes kill) animals, either by holding them in a container, or by catching hold of part of the body. |
| define verb | /dɪˈfaɪn/ | To determine with precision; to mark out with distinctness; to ascertain or exhibit clearly. |
| farmer noun | /ˈfɑɹ.mɚ/ | A person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock; anyone engaged in agriculture on a farm. |
| podcast noun | /ˈpɑdˌkæst/ | A program, especially an audio program, produced on a regular basis, delivered over the Internet in a compressed digital format and designed for playback on… |
| combine verb | /kəmˈbaɪn/ | To bring (two or more things or activities) together; to unite. |
| ladder noun | /ˈlæd.ɚ/ | A frame, usually portable, of wood, metal, or rope, used for ascent and descent, consisting of two side pieces to which are fastened rungs (cross strips or… |
| subscribe verb | /səbˈskɹaɪb/ | To write (one’s name) at the bottom of a document; to sign (one's name). |
| comedian noun | /kəˈmiː.di.ən/ | An entertainer who performs in a humorous manner, especially by telling jokes. |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 12 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, doesn't, we're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- Long words — get the stress right: economics /ˌiːkəˈnɒmɪks/, comedian /kəˈmiː.di.ən/, economist /iˈkɑ.nə.mɪst/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like skill, stable, economics.
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