शैडोइंग अभ्यास: Speaking about Jobs in English for Advanced English Conversation - वीडियो के साथ अंग्रेजी बोलना सीखें

What's your job?

What do you do in life?

How do you make money?

How do you afford to live in that city?

How do you pay your bills?

Hold up, hold up!

While these sentences are grammatically correct, pragmatically speaking, they can be seen as nosy or even rude.

So today, I'm going to teach you much better ways to ask this question, which are pragmatically correct.

Hi, Advanced English Learners!

Mary Daphne here, and today we are talking about how to ask someone about their job.

As with most things in English, we have several ways of asking that question.

So, we don't say, what's your job?

We say things like, what line of work are you in?

What line of work are you in?

What do you do for a living?

How do you make a living?

These questions are a bit more formal and can be used

when you don't know the person very well or if you are in a more professional context.

If you're speaking to someone close in age, more like a peer, a classmate, a colleague, or someone you think you'll be coming friends with,

you can ask this question the following ways.

So, what do you do?

What do you do?

It's kind of fun to say, right?

What do you do?

With this, it's implied that you're talking about work.

The more complete version of this question would be, so what do you do for a living?

So asked in the short way, so what do you do is completely fine.

They will understand what you are getting at.

Asking, so what do you do for fun is about a person's hobbies and interests.

So that is not about work.

You might also say when you're asking about their job, how do you spend your days?

How do you spend your days?

What are you working on at the moment?

Or you can just say, what are you working on?

You might have also heard the term side hustle.

A side hustle is a passion project that can potentially turn into an income stream or something more full -time.

A side hustle is something that you work on, on the side, in addition to your main job.

So this could be something like a freelance gig,

starting a YouTube channel, creating crafts or handmade goods and then selling them online, like in a Netsy shop,

a lot of entrepreneurs start their companies as side hustles.

They pour their heart and soul into those passion projects and they make their living with their job.

If the side hustle is successful, it can become something more full -time and replace their job.

So how do you ask someone about a side hustle?

You can say, do you have a side hustle?

Do you have a side hustle?

What's your side hustle?

Are you working on any passion projects right now?

Working on anything exciting at the moment?

So there you have it, advanced English learners.

As you can see, there are quite a few ways to ask someone what they do for their job

and what they do for their side hustle.

The next time you want to know someone's job, you'll have the right way to ask them that without seeming pushy, rude, or nosy.

Thank you so much for joining me for this lesson

and remember to subscribe for more advanced English lessons to improve your fluency, your confidence, and your clarity in English.

I will see you next time.

Bye for now.

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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