Shadowing Practice: Tiktok is changing our hobbies - Learn English Speaking with Video
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25 משפטים
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1
If hobbies go away, our identity only becomes about what we do for money.
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We forget about the part of ourself that exists without an audience.
3
When was the last time somebody asked you who you are or what you do, and you didn't only talk about your job?
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I'll tell you what I've taken on as a hobby.
5
Two or three loads of laundry a day.
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Dishes all day because these kids are all slobs.
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I used to spend hours making videos day in and day out.
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Not because I was good at it or because it was making me money, but because it really made me feel like me.
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When I started making everything about what other people thought, when I started only making videos for money,
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when I got caught in the social media trap, I started to realize what I was losing.
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But I think there's hope.
12
While I was researching for this video, I saw so many people who are actively pushing back against these issues I was talking about.
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It was almost as if people started to realize how harmful some of these things could be.
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That's when I realized, maybe the apocalypse that I'm seeing isn't the death of hobbies, but instead is the death of joyless consumerism.
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All the endless buying, pointless consumerism, the distortion of hobbies, we're seeing less of that and more of the true joy that hobbies can bring.
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I think that maybe the most important form of a hobby is the simplest one.
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The ones that don't require a mountain of supplies, the ones that don't make money, the ones that aren't meant to impress strangers.
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So maybe we should pick one hobby.
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Don't film it, don't post it, don't try to monetize it.
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Just be bad and have fun.
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I'm really good at the being bad part.
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I've got that, I've Got that down to a T.
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I'm goaded at that.
24
That was, well, I don't know.
25
Why did I say that?
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Tiktok is changing our hobbies”. This video has 25 sentences and 335 words to shadow. The speech runs for 1:28. The speaker talks fast, about 228 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. Only 81% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| hobby noun | /ˈhɑ.bi/ | An activity that one enjoys doing in one's spare time. |
| 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. |
| stranger noun | /ˈstɹeɪnd͡ʒɚ/ | A person whom one does not know; a person who is neither a friend nor an acquaintance. |
| actively adverb | /ˈæktɪvli/ | In an active manner. |
| dish noun | /dɪʃ/ | A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle. |
| endless adjective | /ˈɛndlɪs/ | Having no end. |
| laundry noun | /ˈlɔːn.dɹi/ | A laundering; a washing. |
| harmful adjective | /ˈhɑɹmfl̩/ | Causing or likely to cause harm or damage; injurious. |
| impress verb | /ɪmˈpɹɛs/ | To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably. |
| pointless adjective | /ˈpɔɪntləs/ | Having no point or sharp tip; terminating squarely or in a rounded end. |
| apocalypse noun | /əˈpɑkəlɪps/ | A revealing, especially a prophecy of, or the unfolding of, supernatural events. |
| distortion noun | /dɪsˈtɔːʃən/ | An act of distorting. |
| consumerism noun | /kənˈsumərɪzm̩/ | A materialistic attachment to possessions with a heavy use of consumables; a lifestyle based on such tendencies. |
| goad verb | /ɡoʊd/ | To prod with a goad. |
| joyless adjective | Without joy; unhappy, sad. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| go away verb | To depart or leave a place. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- I'm really good at the being bad part.
- That was, well, I don't know.
- Why did I say that?
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 17 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, I'm, I've. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: dish /dɪʃ/, distortion /dɪsˈtɔːʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: apocalypse /əˈpɑkəlɪps/, consumerism /kənˈsumərɪzm̩/
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 hobby, trap, stranger.
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