शैडोइंग अभ्यास: My Life Story - वीडियो के साथ अंग्रेजी बोलना सीखें

A question I get asked surprisingly often is, is Veritasium a real element?

Nope, I made it up.

When I was a kid about 10 or 11 years old I went to this Genghis Khan exhibit at a museum, and I didn't know much about Genghis Khan except he was some famous warrior who lived a long time ago So I was thinking maybe we'd see his mummified body or his suit of armor or his sword something like that But when I got to the museum all they had were like these tiny fragments of pottery, and some old shoes, and I was incredibly disappointed So in this video, I want to tell you my story but with real pieces of my life : Hi!

: Hi!

Real photons that bounced off my face hit a sensor, created a current that created a magnetic field - flipping some domains on magnetic tape which was later replayed, recreating the current, passed into a computer, digitized into zeros and ones, beamed to your device, which recreates the light that's hitting your eyes right now : I'm waiting for you to take a picture : Of what?

: Of me!

Now there is a direct path of particles from my four-year-old face to yours right now and there is nothing you can do to undo that. I grew up in Vancouver Canada. So I'm mostly Canadian Mostly because my family was South African After my parents got married they moved to Vancouver where my two older sisters were born But I was born in Australia And that's because my dad was working there as an engineer at a pulp and paper mill at the time This is the first house where I ever lived I lived there for the first 18 months of my life Soon after my family returned to Canada and I guess I was a competitive kid Because I graduated top of my class and had a full scholarship to go and study engineering at Queen's University The problem was I didn't really want to be an engineer I wanted to be a filmmaker but, there isn't a straightforward path to becoming a filmmaker like there is for Becoming an engineer or a doctor or a lawyer.

Plus your chance of success at filmmaking is very low Especially in the year 2000 when your best bet is probably to become a PA and try to catch a break somewhere It didn't feel like a meritocracy or like your life was in your own hands So, what did I do? Well, I did the smart thing. I took the scholarship and completed a degree in engineering physics : It's starting to get power : Winderrific You know some people seem to think it's strange to have interests in both science and film, but to me They are both incredible ways of getting at the truth I mean film records everything exactly as it happens and it never changes so it's like this perfect Observation so you can't fool yourself later like about how I felt stifled by four years of engineering : I feel like I've been stifled by four years of engineering.

Now while I was at college I did take a few film production courses as many as I could squeeze into my engineering timetable My final project was a film about someone who is really good at math, but really wants to be an artist So that's really painfully autobiographical I also made videos with my engineering friends, but they always wanted to do something with a gimmick, like vampires, ninjas, Bigfoot, pirates The videos weren't very good and we didn't even post them to YouTube. Why not?

Well because YouTube didn't exist yet so after the engineering degree I decided to move to Australia and go to film school see the Lonely Planet guide and the film school application on my desk : I'm leaving in five days, and I've done barely anything to get ready But once I got to Australia I figured I needed to get a job and get some film experience before I could make a decent application I mean they weren't just gonna accept this Canadian engineer with some ridiculous videos; and on my sixth day in the country, I auditioned for and got a role in this play at the University of Sydney and then I started asking around about physics tutoring work and Within a couple weeks, I had enrolled in a PhD in the School of Physics : So it seems like a kind of funny place to be in given that I came here to do film but, after a short time I realized how much I still liked learning and how much I liked physics and I was hoping that I could meld the two, physics and film In a PhD about how to make films that actually teach physics.

Now, I know that sounds incredibly relevant now But at the time it didn't really satisfy either of my passions in physics or film I know because this is me the night the data first starts coming in from students watching videos that contain misconception I just think that you know including extra material that is wrong and stuff into multimedia segments is just something that no one's ever gonna really put time and energy into and It's never really gonna be worth much and that sort of pisses me off and I wish I was doing something a bit more practical After I got my PhD, I applied to the film school : Now I feel like I'm ready to become an after student and got rejected. I got rejected again the next year I applied twice to the drama school, but never made it past callbacks I was looking for that well-defined path toward a creative career but failing at that I did the smart thing and I took a job as the head of science at a tutoring company where I'd been teaching during my PhD they were making motors and it was a great job I love the students and the other teachers and the flexibility. I had the pay was great and so at the end of 2010 my friends were a bit confused when I told them I was quitting full-time work to start a YouTube channel, but I guess I had reached a kind of breaking point I was 28 years old and I'd spent my whole life up to then building backup plans and doing the things that were most likely to succeed Engineering and a PhD and teaching and I wanted to make this shift It was like a shift in life philosophy towards pursuing Wholeheartedly the things that I felt to be true the things that I'd always told myself I wanted to do, the things I told myself I wanted to be, I wanted to aim for That and not just something that was safe a good strategic decision in the moment So is veritasium a real element?

Well for me it was! it was that idea That I wanted to pursue things, I felt to be true Now you think that this would be the triumphant moment from which I'd never look back but the truth is it I wasn't very good at making youtube videos : It attracts any object with mass Towards any other object with mass an online science video blog Fiji water has been recommended to me by a friend for example the mass of the Sun : Sometimes I think it's a blessing not to know how bad you are because if I had known I probably would have quit But I didn't and so I kept working at it and after a couple of years Well, I started making enough money on YouTube that I could stop doing all other work So YouTube became my main source of livelihood and from that point on I've done so many amazing things that I never could have imagined and the greatest adventure by far is one that I haven't told you about but it's when I moved to LA and met a girl and fell in love and : Will you marry me?

: Yes!

Yes! And here we are : Fly drone!

Gonna fly the drone gonna go outside Now my ability to do what I love every day is All thanks to you and I know that may sound cheesy but it is absolutely, true that Every video view and like and comment and share All of that great stuff is what has made veritasium and by extension my life possible. So Seriously, thank you. And I guess I owe a debt of gratitude to YouTube because they've made possible something that was unimaginable in the year 2000 when I graduated from From high school and it still didn't exist in 2004 when I graduated from college and I think about the people who are currently in high school and college and I think well the job that you will have may not have been invented yet or You may invent it. So what is the point of my story is it to say if you follow your dreams anything is possible?

Hardly, because I'm all too aware of the survivor bias That is if you look at the subset of people who are successful at a particular thing well, you're kind of ignoring all the experience of the Many more people who did not manage to succeed So when I see actors talking about just you know, pursue your dreams and you can do anything It feels really wrong. Like there's this statistical bias in it but at the same time I feel like there's a paradox to the survivor bias because the one thing you know about the people who Survived are that they...

attempted in the first place that they ignored the logical choice That, you know, survivor bias would have you believe never try something which is statistically unlikely They ignored that and they went for it anyway So I guess my advice is if there is something you feel you really want to do Then you should at least try it and accept that there is a very high probability of failure but better to try than the alternative where you face certain failure Now having kids definitely makes it harder to make videos Mainly because I want to spend all my time playing with them and not say, editing So thank you for being patient as the pace of video uploads has slowed to a crawl But you know having kids has also made me re-evaluate the types of videos I want to be making and what I want to be doing with my time, you know This idea of veritasium was an idea where I wanted to Focus on the things I really wanted to accomplish and go straight for those. I think that's a decision You don't just make once but you have to keep making and keep reevaluating and that's what I'm doing Trying to decide exactly what I want to do next for veritasium if you've got any ideas leave them in the comments below and Thank you for sticking with me as this channel and I evolve

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इस पाठ की शब्दावली और बोलने के सुझाव

यह B2 स्तर का स्पीकिंग पाठ वीडियो “My Life Story” पर आधारित है। इस वीडियो में शैडोइंग के लिए 17 वाक्य और 1880 शब्द हैं। बोला गया हिस्सा 11:21 लंबा है। वक्ता लगभग 166 शब्द प्रति मिनट की स्वाभाविक गति से बोलता है, जो रोज़मर्रा की बातचीत के करीब है। केवल 81% शब्द अंग्रेज़ी के 3,000 सबसे आम शब्दों में से हैं, इसलिए शब्दावली कठिन है। इसके 17 वाक्यों में से 7 प्रश्न हैं, इसलिए यह प्रश्नों के लहजे और छोटे जवाबों के अभ्यास के लिए अच्छा है।

इस वीडियो की मुख्य शब्दावली

वीडियो के 15 सबसे कठिन शब्द, उच्चारण और अर्थ के साथ:

शब्द	उच्चारण	अर्थ
bias संज्ञा	/ˈbaɪ.əs/	पक्षपात, पूर्वाग्रह
survivor संज्ञा	/sɚˈvaɪvɚ/	उत्तरजीवी
tutor संज्ञा	/ˈtjuːtəː/	शिक्षक, शिक्षिका
scholarship संज्ञा	/ˈskɑːləɹʃɪp/	छात्रवृत्ति, स्कालरशिप
livelihood संज्ञा	/ˈlaɪvlihʊd/	जीविका, आजीविका
misconception संज्ञा	/ˌmɪs.kənˈsɛp.ʃən/	भ्रम
photon संज्ञा	/ˈfəʊtɒn/	प्रकाशाणु, फ़ोटोन
timetable संज्ञा	/ˈtaɪmˌteɪbəl/	अनुसूची, समयसारणी
unimaginable विशेषण	/ˌʌnɪˈmædʒɪnəbəl/	अकल्पनीय, कल्पनातीत
subset संज्ञा	/ˈsʌbˌsɛt/	उपसमुच्चय
fragment संज्ञा	/ˈfɹæɡmənt/	अंश, खंड
multimedia संज्ञा	/ˌmʌltiˈmiːdi.ə/	मल्टीमीडिया
undo क्रिया	/ʌnˈduː/	उधेड़ना
paradox संज्ञा	/ˈpæ.ɹəˌdɒks/	असत्याभास
pulp संज्ञा	/pʊlp/	गूदा

इस वीडियो का व्याकरण

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

संरचना	वीडियो में
शर्त वाले वाक्य if + उपवाक्य, will/would + क्रिया — शर्त और उसका नतीजा	if I had known I probably would have
Present perfect have/has + past participle — बीता हुआ काम जिसका असर अभी भी है	I've been stifled · I've done · has been recommended
Relative clauses who / which + उपवाक्य — व्यक्ति या वस्तु के बारे में अतिरिक्त जानकारी	tape which was · someone who is · people who are
Passive voice be + past participle — ज़ोर इस पर कि क्या होता है, न कि कौन करता है	were born · I've been stifled · has been recommended

ध्यान देने योग्य उच्चारण

वक्ता 37 बार संक्षिप्त रूपों का प्रयोग करता है, जैसे didn't, I'm, gonna। इन्हें वैसे ही छोटा बोलें जैसा आप सुनते हैं।

“sh” और “zh” की ध्वनियाँ: scholarship /ˈskɑːləɹʃɪp/, misconception /ˌmɪs.kənˈsɛp.ʃən/, audition /ɑˈdɪʃən/, accomplish /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ/
लंबे शब्द — बलाघात सही रखें: autobiographical /ˌɑtoʊˌbaɪəˈɡɹæfəkəl/, meritocracy /mɛɹəˈtɑkɹəsi/, misconception /ˌmɪs.kənˈsɛp.ʃən/, unimaginable /ˌʌnɪˈmædʒɪnəbəl/, multimedia /ˌmʌltiˈmiːdi.ə/

हिंदी भाषियों के लिए मुश्किल ध्वनियाँ:

/v/ और /w/ का फ़र्क़ — /v/ में ऊपर के दाँत निचले होंठ को छूते हैं, /w/ में होंठ गोल होते हैं: survivor /sɚˈvaɪvɚ/, invent /ɪnˈvɛnt/, livelihood /ˈlaɪvlihʊd/, evolve /ɪˈvɑlv/, straightforward /ˌstɹeɪtˈfɔː(ɹ)wə(ɹ)d/
/z/ — इसे “ज” (/dʒ/) न बनाएँ: digitize /ˈdɪd͡ʒɪtaɪz/, cheesy /ˈt͡ʃiːzi/, squeeze /skwiːz/, surprisingly /səˈpɹaɪzɪŋli/, exhibit /ɪɡˈzɪbɪt/
शब्द की शुरुआत में s + व्यंजन — पहले “इ” न जोड़ें: stifle /ˈstaɪf(ə)l/, scholarship /ˈskɑːləɹʃɪp/, statistically /stəˈtɪs.tɪ.kə.li/, straightforward /ˌstɹeɪtˈfɔː(ɹ)wə(ɹ)d/, squeeze /skwiːz/

इस वीडियो से अभ्यास कैसे करें

पहले बिना बोले पूरा वीडियो एक बार सुनें और जो शब्द नहीं आते उन्हें लिख लें।
0.75× गति से शुरू करें, एक-एक वाक्य की शैडोइंग करें, और सहज लगने पर सामान्य गति पर लौटें।
अपनी आवाज़ रिकॉर्ड करें और मूल से तुलना करें, ख़ासकर bias, survivor, tutor जैसे शब्दों पर ध्यान दें।

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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