शैडोइंग अभ्यास: PHILOSOPHY - The Stoics - वीडियो के साथ अंग्रेजी बोलना सीखें
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The Stoicism This is a film about Stoicism and why you need more of it in your life.
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Because, as people seldom tell you, but we will quietly.
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Stoicism was a philosophy that flourished for 480 years in ancient Greece
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and Rome and was popular with everyone from slaves to the aristocracy.
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Because, unlike so much philosophy, it was helpful.
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Helpful when we panic, want to give up, despair and rage at existence.
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We still honour this philosophy whenever we think of someone as brave and without perhaps quite knowing why, call them stoic.
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There are two great philosophers of stoicism.
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The first is the Roman writer and tutor to Nero, Seneca.
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He lived between AD 4 and AD 65.
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That's right, tutor to Nero, the infamous dictator who slept with his own mother, raped young boys and just because he felt like it, asked his old tutor, Seneca,
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to commit suicide in front of his own family.
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And our other guide to Stoicism is the kind and magnanimous Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, AD 121-180, who was forced to spend most of his reign on the edges of the empire,
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fighting off invincible Germanic hordes, but found time to write one of the greatest works of philosophy, the Meditations, in his tent at night.
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There are two problems Stoicism can help us with in particular.
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The first is anxiety.
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When you're feeling anxious about something, most people are maddening.
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They believe it's their duty to cheer you up.
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However intelligent they might otherwise be, they say things like it'll be okay, don't worry, even cheer up.
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The Stoics were appalled.
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They hated any kind of consolation that aims to give the listener hope.
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Hope is the opium of the emotions
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and must be stamped out conclusively for a person to stand any chance of inner peace.
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Because hope only lifts you up higher for the eventual fall.
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The Stoics advise us to take a different path.
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To be calm, one has to tell oneself something very dark.
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It will be terrible.
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I might have to go to prison.
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The lump really could be malign.
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I probably will be fired and humiliated, my friends almost certainly will succeed.
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But a huge, consoling stoic but.
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One must keep in mind that one will, nevertheless, be okay.
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Okay, because in the end, as Marcus Aurelius said, we are each of us stronger than we think.
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Prison won't be fun, nor we're losing one's job or being made a laughing stock, but one will get through it.
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Stoicism emboldens us against the worst fate can throw at us.
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And if you really, really can't take it, suicide is always an option.
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The Stoics mentioned this repeatedly.
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Here is Seneca.
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Can you no longer see a road to freedom?
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It's right in front of you.
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You need only turn over your wrists.
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To build up an impression of one's own resilience, the Stoics suggested one regularly rehearse worst-case scenarios.
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For example, twice a year, one should take off one's smart clothes, into some dirty rags, sleep on a rug in the kitchen floor
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and eat only stale bread and rainwater from an animal's bowl.
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And thereby, you'll make an amazing discovery.
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As Marcus Aurelius put it, almost nothing material is needed for a happy life for he who has understood existence.
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Another subject of interest to the Stoics was anger.
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Romans were a bad tempered lot.
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The Stoics wanted to calm them down, but they did so by an unusual route, by intellectual argument.
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They propose that getting angry isn't something you do by nature
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because you have a Latin temper or are somehow inherently hot blooded.
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It's the result of being stupid, of having the wrong ideas about life.
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Anger stems when misplaced hope smashes into unforeseen reality.
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We don't shout every time something bad happens to us, only when it's bad and unexpected.
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For example, you never shout just because it started raining, even though rain can be horrible, because you've learnt to expect rain.
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The same should apply to everything.
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Don't only expect rain, expect betrayal, infamy, sadism, theft, humiliation, lust, greed, spite.
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One will stop being so angry when one learns the true facts of the misery of life.
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The wise person should aim to reach a state where simply nothing could suddenly disturb their peace of mind.
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Every tragedy should already be priced in.
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We're going to leave you with the most beautiful remark that Seneca made, just as Nero's guards were grabbing him
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and shoving him into a bathroom where he was meant to take a sharp knife and kill himself.
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His wife, Polina, and two children were panicking, weeping, clinging to his cloaks.
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But Seneca turned to them, pulled a weary smile at them, and simply said, what need is there to weep over parts of life?
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The whole of it calls for tears.
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We have much to learn from the Stoics.
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इस पाठ की शब्दावली और बोलने के सुझाव
यह C1 स्तर का स्पीकिंग पाठ वीडियो “PHILOSOPHY - The Stoics” पर आधारित है। सबसे ज़्यादा दोहराए गए शब्द ये हैं: stoic, stoicism, Seneca, philosophy, Aurelius। इस वीडियो में शैडोइंग के लिए 66 वाक्य और 821 शब्द हैं। बोला गया हिस्सा 4:28 लंबा है। वक्ता तेज़ बोलता है, लगभग 184 शब्द प्रति मिनट, इसलिए जुड़ी हुई और कमज़ोर ध्वनियाँ ज़्यादा मिलेंगी। केवल 80% शब्द अंग्रेज़ी के 3,000 सबसे आम शब्दों में से हैं, इसलिए शब्दावली कठिन है।
इस वीडियो की मुख्य शब्दावली
वीडियो के 15 सबसे कठिन शब्द, उच्चारण और अर्थ के साथ:
| शब्द | उच्चारण | अर्थ |
|---|---|---|
| tutor संज्ञा | /ˈtjuːtəː/ | शिक्षक, शिक्षिका |
| weep क्रिया | /ˈwiːp/ | रोना |
| shout क्रिया | /ʃaʊt/ | चिल्लाना |
| humiliate क्रिया | /hjuːˈmɪliˌeɪt/ | विनीत करना, नीचा दिखाना |
| invincible विशेषण | /ɪnˈvɪn.sə.bəl/ | अजय |
| magnanimous विशेषण | /mæɡˈnæn.ɪ.məs/ | उदार, महानुभाव |
| rainwater संज्ञा | वर्षाजल | |
| sadism संज्ञा | /ˈseɪdɪzəm/ | परपीड़न |
| listener संज्ञा | /ˈlɪs(ə)nɚ/ | श्रोता |
| flourish क्रिया | /ˈflʊ̈ɹ.ɪʃ/ | उभरना, पनपना |
| consolation संज्ञा | /ˌkɑn.səˈleɪ.ʃən/ | सांत्वना |
| humiliation संज्ञा | /hjuːˌmɪliˈeɪʃən/ | निरादर, अपमान |
| cloak संज्ञा | /kləʊk/ | चोग़ा |
| seldom क्रिया विशेषण | /ˈsɛldəm/ | कभी कभी |
| dictator संज्ञा | /ˈdɪkˌteɪtəɹ/ | तानाशाह, अधिनायक |
वीडियो में आने वाली फ़्रेज़ल वर्ब
| शब्द | अर्थ |
|---|---|
| take off क्रिया | उतारना |
दोहराने लायक वाक्य
वीडियो के छोटे, पूरे वाक्य जिन्हें आप रोज़ की बातचीत में इस्तेमाल कर सकते हैं:
- They believe it's their duty to cheer you up.
- Can you no longer see a road to freedom?
- It's right in front of you.
इस वीडियो का व्याकरण
वक्ता जिन संरचनाओं का सबसे अधिक प्रयोग करता है, वीडियो के असली शब्दों के साथ:
| संरचना | वीडियो में |
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| Passive voice be + past participle — ज़ोर इस पर कि क्या होता है, न कि कौन करता है | was forced · were appalled · must be stamped |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — बीता हुआ काम जिसका असर अभी भी है | has understood · you've learnt |
ध्यान देने योग्य उच्चारण
वक्ता 12 बार संक्षिप्त रूपों का प्रयोग करता है, जैसे don't, we're, can't। इन्हें वैसे ही छोटा बोलें जैसा आप सुनते हैं।
- “th” की ध्वनियाँ: thereby /ðɛɹˈbaɪ/, cloth /klɒθ/
- “sh” और “zh” की ध्वनियाँ: shout /ʃaʊt/, flourish /ˈflʊ̈ɹ.ɪʃ/, consolation /ˌkɑn.səˈleɪ.ʃən/, humiliation /hjuːˌmɪliˈeɪʃən/, shove /ʃʌv/
- लंबे शब्द — बलाघात सही रखें: aristocracy /ˌɛɹ.ɪˈstɑ.kɹə.si/, humiliate /hjuːˈmɪliˌeɪt/, invincible /ɪnˈvɪn.sə.bəl/, magnanimous /mæɡˈnæn.ɪ.məs/, consolation /ˌkɑn.səˈleɪ.ʃən/
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: weep /ˈwiːp/, invincible /ɪnˈvɪn.sə.bəl/, weary /ˈwɪɚi/, shove /ʃʌv/, eventual /ɪˈvɛn.t͡ʃu.əl/
- /z/ — इसे “ज” (/dʒ/) न बनाएँ: stoicism /ˈstoʊɪsɪzəm/, sadism /ˈseɪdɪzəm/, resilience /ɹɪˈzɪl.ɪ.əns/, misery /ˈmɪz(ə)ɹi/, propose /pɹəˈpəʊz/
- शब्द की शुरुआत में s + व्यंजन — पहले “इ” न जोड़ें: stoicism /ˈstoʊɪsɪzəm/, stoic /ˈstoʊ.ɪk/, spite /spaɪt/, smash /smæʃ/
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 tutor, weep, shout जैसे शब्दों पर ध्यान दें।
शैडोइंग तकनीक क्या है?
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