쉐도잉 연습: Chatterbox #202 - Christmas traditions - 영상으로 영어 말하기 배우기

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Hey, everybody.
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My name is Andrew. And I'm Suzanne.
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And you're listening to Q-Lips.
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Hey Suzanne.
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Hey Andrew, how are you?
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I'm doing very well.
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How about yourself?
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Whoa, I'm pretty good.
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But it's so busy these days, right?
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Gearing up for the holiday season?
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Yeah, it's a busy time of the year.
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And so I know you and I were both teachers, instructors, and this is a busy time for us as well.
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Yeah.
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You know, the courses that we teach are kind of winding down and it just adds to the craziness, right?
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Yeah.
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It's like everyone and everything has a deadline and the deadline is at the same time.
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So it's pretty busy.
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I'm happy that this year, Christmas and New Year's Day, both fall on a Monday.
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Why is that?
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So there's two long weekends for me.
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Oh, nice.
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Yeah, because I don't get any holiday vacation time.
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Oh, no, that's true.
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Because both of these days fall on a Monday means I get two long weekends.
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So this is great.
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That's great.
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I really relate.
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I'm self-employed, so I don't really get an actual holiday either.
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Just the days that are the holiday.
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Right, right.
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Just the actual holiday days, not totally weeks off.
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This is one of the disadvantages of being self-employed is that there's no real holidays, right?
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You're always working.
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That's true.
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And because of that, you kind of have to get creative with your holiday season and spend your time wisely.
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And sometimes that causes you to create your own alternative holiday traditions, right?
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Actually, Suzanne, that is the topic of today's Chatterbox episode.
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We are going to talk about how we spend the holidays and what our Christmas and holiday traditions are.
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If you don't know, Chatterbox is the series where we have a natural conversation and we let you listen in.
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We create an immersive environment for you to practice your English listening in.
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And yeah, today our topic is Christmas and holiday traditions.
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We have a study guide for this episode on our website, QLips.com.
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That includes the transcript, some detailed vocabulary definitions and explanations, real world examples, and also a quiz.
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Andrew, I had a question for you.
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Yeah, go for it.
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What were some of your family or holiday traditions back when you were younger with your family?
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You know, it's interesting.
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This week I had a snack and it made me think about Christmas because my snack was a tangerine and peanuts.
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And I was laughing at myself about how different my thinking is now compared to when I was younger.
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Because now when I eat peanuts and tangerines, I love it.
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I think, wow, this is a kid every Christmas Eve I would go to church with my parents, my family.
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There was a Christmas Eve candlelight service at the church that I went to when I was younger.
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Nice.
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And at the end of the service all of the children would receive a goodie bag.
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Nice.
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It was a paper bag filled with candy.
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Wow.
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Which was great.
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I always looked forward to receiving this goodie bag on Christmas Eve
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and so I would eat the candy first loved it loved the candy
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and then at the bottom of the candy bag would be some loose peanuts shelled peanuts
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and a tangerine and
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when I was a kid on Christmas Eve I always didn't like this part I liked eating the candy
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and then when it came to the peanuts
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and tangerine I turned my nose up
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and was like ah mom dad you have this I don't want it of Of course.
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Yeah, that's the boring part.
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That was the boring part.
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But this week when I had my snack of peanuts and a tangerine,
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it made me think of that goodie bag that I used to receive on Christmas Eve.
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And you realized, wow, I've grown up.
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I like tangerines and peanuts.
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Yeah, now I think it's the best.
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You can't get any better than that.
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well speaking of peanuts i think watching snoopy and charlie brown christmas oh yeah
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on specials on tv was one of my favorite traditions as a kid
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and the music i really loved the theme of the charlie
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brown christmas special um i think it was written by a composer
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and is kind of included in many Christmas carol CDs or compilations.
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It's a famous song.
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I can't sing it for you right now because it's an instrumental and it kind of slips my mind,
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but I think that's one of my favorite songs and one of my favorite traditions to watch Snoopy and Woodstock.
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It's
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a really beautiful song, actually, the Charlie Brown Christmas theme.
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Yes.
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That was always part of my Christmas tradition, too.
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You know, on the days leading up to Christmas, usually the 21st, 22nd, 23rd these days,
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there are a lot of Christmas specials on TV.
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So Christmas themed TV shows, Christmas themed movies.
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And every year I would watch a Charlie Brown Christmas.
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And that theme song from that episode is really beautiful.
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Yeah, it's true.
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I think as I grew older, I really appreciated it for a very good composition and a really beautiful song.
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I think when I was younger, I pretty much liked those cheesy songs like Jingle Bells
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and all of those kinds of stupid-ish Christmas carols like Frosty the Snowman, you know.
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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
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These songs were more my childhood loves now I appreciate the more handcrafted, stand the test of time kind of songs.
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And yes, always watching that special and being in like the foot pajamas.
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Do you know what foot pajamas are?
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Foot pajamas.
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So it's like a onesie, right?
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Right.
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It's like socks that are attached to your pajamas kind of.
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It's like a big onesie for a kid or an adult.
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Right.
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So it's pajamas, a pair of pajamas.
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Actually, it's not a pair.
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It's a one piece piece of clothing that you get into
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and it has the socks attached to the leg of the pants.
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So it's really comfortable and cozy for the wintertime.
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Right.
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And then you sit there with a hot chocolate, maybe with some marshmallows.
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and watch Snoopy and Charlie Brown.
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There you go.
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One of my family traditions is that, well, we don't do this anymore, but when I was younger,
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we always opened one Christmas present on Christmas Eve.
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Nice.
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Did you do this as well growing up?
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Yeah, we did do that as kids.
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Yes, because we couldn't wait.
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We really wanted to get right in there and open up gifts.
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So, yes, my parents would allow us to open one gift.
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But since we got older and we stopped believing in Santa Claus, we started opening up gifts,
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I would say, almost all of our gifts at night on Christmas Eve.
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And then just go to sleep and sleep in.
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I like it.
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I like it.
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Yeah.
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Well, my hometown of Kelowna, British Columbia, has a fairly large population of European immigrants.
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Oh, nice.
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Especially people from Northern Europe.
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So the Nordic countries, Germany, Poland, these places.
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And now I'm not exactly sure if everybody from these countries does this and listeners out there from northern Europe,
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please send me an email and correct me if I'm wrong.
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But I believe that it's a tradition to open all your presents on Christmas Eve in these countries.
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A lot of my friends opened all of their presents on Christmas Eve growing up.
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So my family didn't do this.
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We waited until Christmas morning.
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And I remember being really jealous of my friends that got to open their presents, all of their presents on Christmas Eve.
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You know, they would open their presents and then call me on the phone.
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Be like, Andrew, I just got the new Super Nintendo game I wanted.
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And I was like, ah, I'm so jealous.
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And then did you get your Nintendo the next day?
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Oh, probably, probably.
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I was always spoiled.
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You couldn't wait that one night.
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Yeah.
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You know, when you're nine or 10 years old, 12 hours is a lifetime.
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I know.
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You can't sleep.
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I always had trouble sleeping Christmas Eve.
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Yeah.
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Well, something funny that my dad would do, and it became a tradition in our house,
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was he would eat the cookies and the milk or coffee that we left for Santa,
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and he would make crumbs all over the table and near the plate and on the chair.
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And then he would take the red felt from the stockings that we hung up and the white felt as well.
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And he would put them around the chair like little tufts of felt and fuzz.
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And then he would take his boots
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and he would scuff the wall around like the chimney
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or around the chair to make it look like Santa was there for real.
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Whoa.
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And he even took my dog whose name was Pee Wee, which is a funny name.
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Yeah.
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And he would put her feet in like,
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I don't know, mud or maybe ink and make footprints around the house.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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So you thought it was a reindeer?
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Really?
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A reindeer?
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Yeah.
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Like there was a reindeer and Santa actually came.
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So I really believed it.
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I mean, he made it sound and seem like Santa really was there.
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But lo and behold, it wasn't true.
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Wow.
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Your dad went to a lot of work to make it look like Santa actually visited your house.
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I know.
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It was a grand lie.
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Suzanne, you used a really interesting word a couple sentences ago, and I think maybe it would be a new word for many of our listeners.
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That word was scuff.
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You said your father scuffed the wall.
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What does this mean, scuff?
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With his boots.
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So he would rub the boot on the floor or the wall and create a mark.
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so when you rub your shoe or a rubber sole on a wall
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or on a floor that's a hard floor maybe hard wood it will leave a mark
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and that you would call a scuff yeah a mark
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that you leave behind or a sort of abrasion like a rough spot
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that you leave behind with your with your shoe totally
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and i think this is why sometimes
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when you go to a gym to exercise or a gymnasium to play a sport like badminton or basketball,
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you'll see a sign that says no outside shoes.
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Why the sign is there is they don't want you to scuff the floor.
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They don't want you to leave a mark on the gymnasium floor with your dirty shoes.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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So this is a good word to know.
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Scuff.
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Suzanne, we will leave it at that for today.
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Thanks for sharing some of your Christmas traditions with us.
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Sure, thank you.
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Yeah, and everyone, once again, please visit our website, QLips.com.
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That is the place where you can download the study guide.
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and if you have any questions
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and let us know how you are spending the holiday season.
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Suzanne, I think this will be our last episode of the year.
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So I want to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
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We'll talk to you in 2018.
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Oh my gosh.
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You too, Andrew.
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Thank you.
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And Happy New Year to everybody.
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Happy holidays.
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Bye, guys.
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Happy holidays.
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이 레슨의 어휘와 말하기 포인트

이 B1 수준 말하기 레슨은 영상 “Chatterbox - Christmas traditions”을(를) 바탕으로 합니다. 가장 자주 반복되는 단어는 다음과 같습니다: christmas, holiday, Eve, tradition, peanuts. 이 영상에는 섀도잉할 문장 235개와 단어 2098개가 있습니다. 말하는 구간의 길이는 16:35입니다. 화자는 분당 약 126단어의 일정한 속도로 말해서 섀도잉하기에 편한 속도입니다. 영어에서 가장 많이 쓰이는 3,000단어에 속하는 단어가 81%뿐이라 어휘가 어려운 편입니다.

이 영상의 핵심 어휘

영상에서 가장 어려운 단어 15개를 발음, 뜻과 함께 정리했습니다.

단어발음뜻
peanut 명사/ˈpiˌnʌt/땅콩
pajamas 명사/pəˈd͡ʒɑ.məz/파자마, 잠옷
tangerine 명사/ˈtæn.d͡ʒəˌɹiːn/귤
candy 명사/ˈkæn.di/캔디, 사탕
reindeer 명사/ˈɹeɪndɪɹ/순록
shoe 명사/ˈʃu/신발, 신
listener 명사/ˈlɪs(ə)nɚ/경청자, 청취자
snack 명사/snæk/간단한 식사, 경식
boot 명사/but/장화, 목화
gymnasium 명사/d͡ʒɪmˈneɪ.zi.əm/체육관
onesie 명사/ˈwʌn.zi/바디슈트
sock 명사/sɑk/양말
attach 동사/əˈtæt͡ʃ/첨부하다, 붙이다
vocabulary 명사/vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/어휘, 어휘력
quiz 명사/kwɪz/퀴즈

따라 말해 볼 만한 문장

영상에 나오는 짧고 완결된 문장으로, 일상 대화에서 그대로 쓸 수 있습니다:

  • You can't get any better than that.
  • Do you know what foot pajamas are?
  • Did you do this as well growing up?
  • Yes, because we couldn't wait.
  • You couldn't wait that one night.

이 영상의 문법

화자가 가장 많이 쓰는 문형을 영상 속 실제 표현과 함께 정리했습니다.

문형영상 속 표현
수동태 be + 과거분사 — 누가 하는지보다 무슨 일이 일어나는지에 초점is now compared · was written · are attached
동사 + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — 뒤에 -ing형이 오는 동사stopped believing · love hearing
현재진행 am/is/are + -ing — 지금 또는 요즘 일어나고 있는 일You're listening · I'm doing · You're always working
“will” 미래 will + 동사 — 결정, 약속 또는 예측will leave · you'll see · will be

주의할 발음

화자는 don't, I'm, you're 같은 축약형과 약화된 형태를 33번 사용합니다. 들리는 대로 짧게 발음하세요.

  • “sh”와 “zh” 소리: shoe /ˈʃu/, abrasion /əˈbɹeɪ.ʒən/, marshmallow /ˈmɑɹʃˌmɛl.oʊ/, compilation /ˌkɑm.pɪˈleɪ.ʃən/, gosh /ɡɑːʃ/
  • 긴 단어 — 강세 위치에 주의: gymnasium /d͡ʒɪmˈneɪ.zi.əm/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, disadvantage /ˌdɪsədˈvæntɪd͡ʒ/, compilation /ˌkɑm.pɪˈleɪ.ʃən/, instrumental /ɪnstɹəˈmɛntəl/

한국어 화자가 어려워하는 소리:

  • /f/ — ㅍ(/p/)으로 바꾸지 말고 윗니를 아랫입술에 대기: scuff /skʌf/, footprint /ˈfʊtpɹɪnt/, fuss /fʌs/, feedback /ˈfiːdˌbæk/
  • /v/ — ㅂ(/b/)과 구별하기: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, immersive /ɪˈmɜːɹ.sɪv/, disadvantage /ˌdɪsədˈvæntɪd͡ʒ/
  • /z/ — ㅈ이 아니라 성대를 울리는 /s/: pajamas /pəˈd͡ʒɑ.məz/, gymnasium /d͡ʒɪmˈneɪ.zi.əm/, onesie /ˈwʌn.zi/, quiz /kwɪz/, cheesy /ˈt͡ʃiːzi/

이 영상으로 연습하는 방법

  1. 먼저 말하지 않고 영상을 끝까지 듣고 모르는 단어를 적어 둡니다.
  2. 보통 속도로 한 문장씩 섀도잉하고, 화자의 리듬과 맞을 때까지 반복합니다.
  3. 자신의 목소리를 녹음해 원본과 비교하고, peanut, pajamas, tangerine 같은 단어에 특히 주의합니다.

쉐도잉이란? 영어 실력을 빠르게 키우는 과학적 방법

쉐도잉(Shadowing)은 원래 전문 통역사 훈련을 위해 개발된 언어 학습 기법으로, 다언어 학자인 Dr. Alexander Arguelles에 의해 대중화된 방법입니다. 핵심 원리는 간단하지만 매우 강력합니다: 원어민의 영어를 들으면서 1~2초의 짧은 지연으로 즉시 소리 내어 따라 말하는 것——마치 '그림자(shadow)'처럼 화자를 따라가는 것입니다. 문법 공부나 수동적인 청취와 달리, 쉐도잉은 뇌와 입 근육이 동시에 실시간으로 영어를 처리하고 재현하도록 훈련합니다. 연구에 따르면 이 방법은 발음 정확도, 억양, 리듬, 연음, 청취력, 말하기 유창성을 크게 향상시킵니다. IELTS 스피킹 준비와 자연스러운 영어 소통을 원하는 분들에게 특히 효과적입니다.

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