शैडोइंग अभ्यास: Can we learn to sound native in another language? - वीडियो के साथ अंग्रेजी बोलना सीखें

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As adult language learners, can we learn to speak like a native, sound like a native, achieve native-like fluency?

Right up front, I will say that my answer is no.

I think overwhelmingly it's not a realistic goal.

It's not something that we can achieve as adult language learners, and I can explain why.

First of all, let's be realistic.

Overwhelmingly, if there are, according to some estimates, 1.2, 1.5 billion language learners in the world today, 80% of them never get past A2.

B1, which is sort of the beginning of some degree of ability to comfortably communicate, might add another 15 to 20%.

So most people never get past that.

And if we look at the number of hours that are required to achieve these levels, once you get to B1, you have lots of hours ahead of you.

You have a long way to go.

Or if we look at it in terms of the number of words that are required to be at this B2 or C1, C2 level, again, lots of words.

And to be like a native suggests that you are at that upper level of C1 and C2.

Now, granted, there is a difference between sounding like a native, saying a few phrases where you s-, your accent is very good and you sound almost native-like, versus having such a high level of vocabulary that you can read, you know, Proust in French and understand it.

We've all seen the example of the university professor who has probably a very high level, in say English, but who has a strong accent.

So there's this dichotomy between performance and actual knowledge of the language.

And the suggestion of, you know, sound like a native, speak like a native seems to focus in on performance when actually language learning is more about communication and enjoyment.

So when I, for example, uh, started learning French is because I was fascinated by French civilization.

I wasn't very interested when I was in high school.

I became interested, and that spurred me to do more learning.

It was never my intention to become like a native, although the native is always the model.

I mean, that's what we want to try to emulate all the while we are realistic about the fact that we will not achieve that level.

And I have... I think I speak French quite well, but I have no illusions that I am native-like in my knowledge of French.

And I have heard people who speak, say, English, and I think of some of the famous polyglots, you know, on the internet like Luca Lampariello and others who are very good at one or several languages, but there's always something that gives them away.

And I say give them away in terms of not that me as a non-native speaker of, say, Spanish try to judge a non-native speaker speaking Spanish.

I mean a native speaker.

I have heard people who speak English, let's say American English, very, very well, and for a while can sound like a native, But inevitably, there will be something that gives them away.

Now, none of that matters because even those people who achieve this almost native-like level of fluency in a language, they are a very, very small percentage of the people who are learning languages.

So it becomes an unrealistic goal to pursue.

The goal in language learning should be to find a way to enjoy it, to spend enough time with the language, enough hours of listening and reading, and hopefully finding things of interest and enjoying the language without worrying about whether you will be mistaken for a native.

We've heard, you know, "Oh, I went to Germany, and they identified my non-German accent and switched back to English." This is going to happen.

I am identifiable as a non-German speaker, yet when I'm in German, I speak German.

Most people respond to me in German.

Unless you have trouble making yourself understood, in other words, if you are in that 85% of people who speak at a B1 max level, yes, there is a good chance that people will come back to you in English if they speak English better than you speak their language.

But if you have a fairly decent level in the language, B2 has always been to me sort of a level of comfort fluency, where the listener is comfortable and you are comfortable, but you're not being mistaken for a native speaker.

That's a very achievable objective for most people if they're willing to put in the time.

So to me, the key is that we should engage in the task of learning a language in a way that we can control the process.

We cannot control whether or not other people will think we sound like a native.

That's beyond our control.

We can control the amount of time we put in.

We can control what we choose to listen to and read.

To a large extent, we can control how much we enjoy the process.

Those are the things that we should control.

I think back to when I created LingQ.

Why was I motivated to do that?

I had books at home in German and Spanish, as I've said before, full of words that I did not understand.

I was motivated to understand those books better.

I was not motivated to try to sound like a native.

When I was, uh, hitchhiking in Spain back in the '60s, sitting in, uh, you know, with a truck driver or a driver who picked me up, I was only interested in communicating.

Uh, I was not interested in sounding like a native.

However, because I put in the time, because I spoke to a lot of people, I listened to a lot of content, I read a lot of books particularly, which is very important, I accumulated a larger and larger vocabulary, better and better level of comprehension.

I enjoyed the language.

I improved.

I improved to the level where I'm satisfied in some of the languages that I speak.

I'm satisfied with the level that I have achieved.

In the other languages that I'm learning, for example, Persian right now, I recognize my limits.

It doesn't discourage me.

I'm enjoying the process.

I will get better.

You know, sounding like a native is not my goal.

It may be the fact that on the internet, YouTubers, you know, I, I think there's a tendency amongst all of us to try to come up with a title, and maybe that's the case here with this video . We want to try to snare, you know, eyeballs, say something a little bit controversial or a shiny object to attract eyeballs.

But for most people, it's not an achievable goal.

I, I don't even think it's something that most people think about.

As long as they're able to understand what people say, if they're able to get their meaning across, if they have a sense that they can improve in the language, that's really all most people want to do.

It is rather remarkable that most people drop off at about A2, B1.

In other words, they've gone through that early stage where there are some easy victories.

They now, you know, understand some things.

They have a bit of vocabulary, and it's at that point that they have to commit to staying the course, and most people don't.

And I think rather than, uh, suggesting somehow, uh, an unrealistic goal of sounding like a native, as people who are in, you know, keen on language learning, I think our goal should be to motivate people to stay the course.

You don't have to become a native.

You won't become a native.

There are people who speak very well.

You may or may not get close to their level.

But you have to believe that if you continue putting in the time, doing the reading and listening, speaking when you have the opportunity, without worrying about your performance, then you will continue to improve.

You will achieve whatever level you achieve.

You will become as good as you can become based on the time and effort you put in, and that's the important message, not trying to sound like a native.

Thanks for listening.

Bye for now.

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इस वीडियो के साथ बोलने का अभ्यास क्यों करें?

इस वीडियो में, वयस्क भाषा शिक्षार्थियों के लिए यह चर्चा की गई है कि क्या वे किसी अन्य भाषा में मूल वक्ता की तरह बोलना सीख सकते हैं। यह एक महत्वपूर्ण विषय है, खासकर उन लोगों के लिए जो अंग्रेजी बोलने का अभ्यास कर रहे हैं। वीडियो में कहा गया है कि जबकि यह आकर्षक है कि हम मूल वक्ता की तरह बोलने का लक्ष्य रखें, हमें यह भी ध्यान रखना चाहिए कि वास्तविकता में, यह हमेशा संभव नहीं होता। हालांकि, अंग्रेजी शैडोइंग के माध्यम से, हम अपनी भाषा कौशल में सुधार कर सकते हैं और अधिक आत्मविश्वास के साथ संवाद कर सकते हैं।

व्याकरण और संदर्भ में अभिव्यक्तियाँ

वीडियो में कुछ मुख्य भाषा संरचनाएँ और अभिव्यक्तियाँ हैं जो हम समझ सकते हैं:

"sounding like a native" - यह एक महत्वपूर्ण वाक्यांश है जो यह दर्शाता है कि हम मूल वक्ता की तरह बोलने की कोशिश कर सकते हैं, लेकिन यह वास्तव में कठिन है।
"communicate comfortably" - यह एक सकारात्मक लक्ष्य है, जिसका अर्थ है कि हमें अपने विचार व्यक्त करने में सहज होना चाहिए।
"enjoying the language" - भाषा सीखने में आनंद लेना एक आवश्यक पहलू है, जो हमें लगातार सीखने के लिए प्रेरित करेगा।
"decent level of fluency" - यह बताता है कि एक बेहतर स्तर पर पहुंचना संभव है, जहां हम मूल वक्ता के रूप में पहचाने नहीं जाएंगे, फिर भी प्रभावी ढंग से संवाद कर सकते हैं।

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वीडियो में कुछ ऐसे शब्द और उच्चारण भी हैं जो विद्यार्थियों के लिए चुनौतीपूर्ण हो सकते हैं:

"identify" - इस शब्द का उच्चारण करते समय सही ध्वनि पर ध्यान देना महत्वपूर्ण है।
"communicating" - इसे सही से उच्चारित करने के लिए, अंत में आने वाले ‘-ing’ पर ध्यान दें।
"achieve" - इस शब्द का उच्चारण हल्का सा कठिन हो सकता है, इसलिए इसे बार-बार बोलने का अभ्यास करें।

जब हम वीडियो के साथ अंग्रेजी उच्चारण में सुधार करने का अभ्यास करते हैं, तो shadow speech तकनीक का उपयोग कर सकते हैं। यह तकनीक हमें न केवल सही उच्चारण में मदद करती है, बल्कि यह भी सुनिश्चित करती है कि हम भाषा का सही संदर्भ समझें।

इस वीडियो का व्याकरण

वक्ता जिन संरचनाओं का सबसे अधिक प्रयोग करता है, वीडियो के असली शब्दों के साथ:

संरचना	वीडियो में
Present perfect have/has + past participle — बीता हुआ काम जिसका असर अभी भी है	have heard · We've heard · has always been
Relative clauses who / which + उपवाक्य — व्यक्ति या वस्तु के बारे में अतिरिक्त जानकारी	people who speak · people who achieve · people who are
Passive voice be + past participle — ज़ोर इस पर कि क्या होता है, न कि कौन करता है	are required · was fascinated · will be mistaken

शैडोइंग तकनीक क्या है?

शैडोइंग (Shadowing) एक विज्ञान-समर्थित भाषा सीखने की तकनीक है जो मूल रूप से पेशेवर दुभाषिया प्रशिक्षण के लिए विकसित की गई थी। विधि सरल लेकिन शक्तिशाली है: आप मूल अंग्रेज़ी ऑडियो सुनते हैं और तुरंत इसे ज़ोर से दोहराते हैं — जैसे वक्ता की छाया 1-2 सेकंड की देरी से। शोध से पता चलता है कि यह उच्चारण सटीकता, स्वर, लय, जुड़ी हुई ध्वनियाँ, सुनने की समझ और बोलने की प्रवाहशीलता में काफ़ी सुधार करता है।

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