शैडोइंग अभ्यास: Describing Personality at Work Adjectives - वीडियो के साथ अंग्रेजी बोलना सीखें

पाठ बनाया जा रहा है...
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How is your new job, Sam?
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It's great. Are your colleagues nice?
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Some of them are.
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Lee is very kind and helpful.
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He helped me a lot on my first day.
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This day, Rebecca is really funny.
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She often makes us all laugh. That sounds nice.
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It is.
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Most of my coworkers are very nice, honest, and friendly.
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Not all of them?
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A couple of people are not so good.
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Why?
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Catherine is very selfish.
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She only thinks about herself.
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Mike always starts arguments with people.
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Phil talks too much.
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I thought talkative was a good thing.
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Not with Phil.
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He is too talkative.
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I can't do any work when he's in the office because he keeps talking to me.

Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This A2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Describing Personality at Work Adjectives”. This video has 20 sentences and 120 words to shadow. The speech runs for 1:23. The speaker talks slowly, about 87 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. 4 of its 20 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.

Key vocabulary in this video

10 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
helpful adjective/ˈhɛlp.fl̩/Furnishing help; giving aid; useful.
selfish adjective/ˈsɛlf.ɪʃ/Holding one's own self-interest as the standard for decision making.
colleague noun/ˈkɒliːɡ/A fellow member of a profession, staff, academic faculty or other organization; an associate, a workmate.
talkative adjective/ˈtɔ.kə.ɾɪv/Tending to talk a lot.
microgram noun/ˈmaɪ.kɹəˌɡɹæm/An SI unit of mass equal to 10⁻⁶ grams. Symbol: μg A unit of mass equal to one millionth of a gram, or 0.000 001 grams.
laugh verb/læf/To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and…
argument noun/ˈɑɹɡjʊmənt/A fact or statement used to support a proposition; a reason.
friendly adjective/ˈfɹɛnd.li/Generally warm, approachable and easy to relate with in character.
herself/hɝˈsɛlf/Her; the female object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject.
honest adjective/ˈɑ.nɪst/Scrupulous with regard to telling the truth; not given to swindling, lying, or fraud; upright.

How to practise with this video

  1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
  2. Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
  3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like helpful, selfish, colleague.

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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