शैडोइंग अभ्यास: What is the “generation gap problem”? - वीडियो के साथ अंग्रेजी बोलना सीखें

The generation gap problem is a problem that began to be analyzed in the late 1960s.

In fact, the phrase generation gap dates from 1967, as far as we can tell.

Jonathan Green, who's a lexicographer, puts it at that particular year,

and that's very significant because that's the year of the summer of love of hippies

and all of the efflorescence of the Beatles and Sgt Pepper

and also it's a year when political protest was gaining momentum

so young people were defining themselves for the first time in

living memory over against the variation of their parents way of living their parents generation

if you like and that was all to do with the legacy of the Second World War, recovering from the austerity of World War II.

And young people with a bit more economic freedom, but also with the pill coming on stream and sexual permissiveness, were beginning to say, we have another way of living.

And so the so -called baby boom generation took hold.

And analysts from that point onwards began to see generational difference in terms of antipathy between the generations.

It hadn't been quite so acute before then, but it became quite acute after that.

And ever since, there's been a sort of analysis around every 20 years a new generation having to come through.

So Generation X followed the baby boomers.

So millennials followed Generation X.

And now people are starting to talk about Generation Z.

And they're all assumed to have their own characteristics and their own particular psyche.

But I would want to say that that's prone to really massive generalisation and we need a more biblical view of things.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “What is the “generation gap problem”?”. This video has 19 sentences and 279 words to shadow. The speech runs for 1:48. The speaker talks at a natural 155 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 82% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

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

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
acute adjective	/əˈkjut/	Brief, quick, short.
protest noun	/ˈpɹoʊ.tɛst/	A formal objection, especially one by a group.
legacy noun	/ˈlɛɡəsi/	Money or property bequeathed to someone in a will.
boom verb	/bum/	To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound.
define verb	/dɪˈfaɪn/	To determine with precision; to mark out with distinctness; to ascertain or exhibit clearly.
psychology noun	/saɪˈkɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/	The study of the human mind.
phrase noun	/ˈfɹeɪ̯z/	A short written or spoken expression.
recover verb	/ɹɪˈkʌvɚ/	To get back, to regain (a physical thing; in astronomy and navigation, sight of a thing or a signal).
variation noun	/ˌvɛəɹiˈeɪʃn̩/	The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing.
momentum noun	/ˌmə(ʊ)ˈmɛntəm/	Of a body in motion: the tendency of a body to maintain its inertial motion; the product of its mass and velocity, or the vector sum of the products of its…
analyst noun	/ˈænəlɪst/	Someone who analyzes.
pill noun	/pɪl/	A small, usually round or cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication.
characteristic noun	/ˌkæɹ(ə)ktəˈɹɪstɪk/	A distinguishing feature of a person or thing, a part of mental or physical behavior.
prone adjective	/pɹəʊn/	Lying face-down.
biblical adjective	/ˈbɪblɪkəl/	Of or relating to the Bible.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
come through verb	To come into a room or other space through a door or passageway.

इस वीडियो का व्याकरण

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

संरचना	वीडियो में
Passive voice be + past participle — ज़ोर इस पर कि क्या होता है, न कि कौन करता है	be analyzed

Pronunciation to watch

Long words — get the stress right: psychology /saɪˈkɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/, momentum /ˌmə(ʊ)ˈmɛntəm/, characteristic /ˌkæɹ(ə)ktəˈɹɪstɪk/, antipathy /ænˈtɪpəθi/, austerity /ɔˈstɛɹɪti/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like acute, protest, legacy.

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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