शैडोइंग अभ्यास: Reading Unit 10B - वीडियो के साथ अंग्रेजी बोलना सीखें

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Track 20.
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reading 10b Life on the Edge.
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The old ways have little appeal for Malik Lovestrom.
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A slim 24 -year -old, Lovestrom has lived his whole life in Eumenach.
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The people in this small town on Greenland's west coast survive mainly on seal hunting and fishing.
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But Lovestrom's interests lie elsewhere: in rock music and horror movies, He taught himself English by listening to music.
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and now dreams of working as a tour guide on Greenland's cruise ships.
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He knows he should move to a larger town, as many of his friends have done.
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But doing so would leave no one to care for his 80 -year -old grandmother.
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So he remains in Umanach.
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Small towns all over Greenland are losing population.
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Neuronet, a settlement near Umanac, is now home to just 50 people.
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The instability of towns like these has worsened as a result of climate change.
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Ice loss has shortened the hunting season.
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and as a result, traditional hunting and fishing can no longer pay for access to modern amenities.
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Long before the sea ice disappears, economic and social pressures may force people to leave these settlements.
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The question of what to do about this problem is a common topic of debate at gatherings known as Café Mique.
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At one community gathering, Jean -Michel Huckton, a French anthropologist, gets into a lively discussion with a man who is moved to Nook.
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Greenland's largest town.
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The subject is the future of places like Njaranet and whether they even have one.
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Thank you.
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If we don't move out of isolation, we will always be conservative, The man from Nook tells Huckton, I don't want to live in a museum.
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I don't want to live in the old way.
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My son, my daughter should be part of the world.
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The traditional lifestyles survive only because of government subsidies, he argues.
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This approach forces young people into a life of hunting and fishing, rather than encouraging them to look beyond tradition.
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But job opportunities in Greenland are few, Hucked Encounters.
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Anyway, what would happen to the older hunters?
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Should they give up their independence, their boats and dog sleds, and live in a city apartment building?
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"The loss of settlements would be a loss for all," he says.
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Such places preserve Inuit hunting culture.
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But Huckton is hopeful.
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"I think these small, remote communities can invent a sustainable future for themselves," he says.
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The people have gone from hunting to Facebook in less than a century.
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I'm sure they will succeed in the future.
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Fewer people are choosing to stay, however.
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Even fewer arrive from outside.
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An exception is Ilanguj Egedei, who moved to Nyarnet to be with his girlfriend.
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His first job was cleaning the town's toilets.
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But now he manages the town's power plant.
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"I like it here a lot," he says.
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I have a home and a nice salary.
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"You can feel the freshness here, and it's open," he says.
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"I don't want to move anyplace else."

Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Reading Unit 10B”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: hunting, town, Huckton, fishing, settlement. This video has 44 sentences and 495 words to shadow. The speech runs for 3:38. The speaker talks at a steady 136 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. Only 78% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
anthropologist noun/ˌæn.θɹoʊˈpɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/An expert in anthropology.
anyplace adverbAt a non-specific place; anywhere.
freshness noun/ˈfɹɛʃnəs/The state or quality of being fresh.
shorten verb/ˈʃɔɹtn̩/To make shorter; to abbreviate.
worsen verb/ˈwɝsn̩/To make worse; to impair.
amenities noun/əˈmɛn.ə.tiːz/Synonym of pleasantries.
subsidy noun/ˈsʌbsɪdi/Financial support or assistance, such as a grant.
invent verb/ɪnˈvɛnt/To design a new process or mechanism.
instability noun/ɪnstəˈbɪlɪti/The quality of being unstable.
hopeful adjective/ˈhoʊpfl̩/feeling hope
lively adjective/ˈlaɪv.li/Full of life; energetic, vivacious.
isolation noun/ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃən/The state of being isolated, detached, or separated; the state of being away from other people.
disappear verb/dɪsəˈpɪɹ/To vanish.
grandmother noun/ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌmʌðɚ/A mother of someone's parent.
sustainable adjective/səˈsteɪnəbəl/Able to be sustained.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

WordMeaning
give up verbTo surrender (someone or something); to inform on (someone).

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

  • I don't want to live in the old way.
  • I'm sure they will succeed in the future.
  • "I don't want to move anyplace else."

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 5 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

  • The “th” sounds: anthropologist /ˌæn.θɹoʊˈpɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/, grandmother /ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌmʌðɚ/
  • The “sh” and “zh” sounds: freshness /ˈfɹɛʃnəs/, shorten /ˈʃɔɹtn̩/, isolation /ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃən/
  • Long words — get the stress right: anthropologist /ˌæn.θɹoʊˈpɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/, amenities /əˈmɛn.ə.tiːz/, instability /ɪnstəˈbɪlɪti/, isolation /ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃən/, sustainable /səˈsteɪnəbəl/

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 anthropologist, anyplace, freshness.

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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