쉐도잉 연습: Choose Your Life: The Secret to Living Your Truth & Finding Meaning - 영상으로 영어 말하기 배우기
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There is no ways you can make it on this ocean called planet Earth without that boat called self.
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It’s a sail ship...
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spirit sails it.
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Where it goes, you cannot know.
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The only compass you have on this boat is your heart.
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My mom told me a lot to always think about tomorrow.
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And it was something that she lived.
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Living in a state of fear where you believe that it’s the last tomato so I must cut it in half so that I can have again tomorrow.
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I grew up in a very poor area where people didn’t have much.
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The fridge would be full one week in a month.
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And then the rest of the three weeks there’s a bottle of water and mayonnaise that’s been left over for the past three months.
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But I ate every day.
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She would give even though she didn’t have.
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She would make it happen.
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I can’t be thankful enough.
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When I was growing up, it was explained to me what my name means, Mthunzi Gamama.
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It means ‘moms place of rest’.
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So my purpose for my name is one who must grow up and then look after my mom.
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At around age eleven was the time when I started feeling the pressures of society’s expectations, my mom’s expectations.
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How you feel, that’s not a question that we ask where we’re from.
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You must find a vocation that brings in the most income boy or else you are a waste of opportunity.
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I had always known that the expectations that people have of me, they were going to get disappointed.
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Because I was not going to be a doctor.
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I was not going to be an accountant.
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I knew those were not the options for me.
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Right now my mom and I aren’t talking.
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And the reason for that... sorry man...
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The reason for that is because of the person I have chosen to be.
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She has known me her whole life.
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She had thought she knew me.
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Me too. I thought I knew me too.
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And then I got to a point where I realised that I was going deeper and deeper into learning me.
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I had misled myself a lot and made decisions that were not loving to me.
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It hurts because she’s holding onto what she thinks she knows about me.
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And that is no longer here.
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I read somewhere a simple line that said ‘On the other side of your fear is the life that you want.’ And I think that this is just that.
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It’s time to put the fear down and to pick up the heart and light it up and follow where it goes.
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I have come to a place where I have removed all those layers of these opinions to come to this bareness...
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this absolute bare reality of who I am.
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For the first time in my life I don’t have this voice of authority that I need to answer to before I make a decision.
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And this sort of freedom is so great for my kids and for myself.
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For my kids, what I hope for is for them to have the confidence to make the decisions that make them happy.
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The freedom to follow your heart... unapologetically.
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To know that whatever it is that you’re going to do will work for as long as you put your energy and your heart into it.
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You’re just here to follow your heart.
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And to do that... whatever that is.
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I hope one day that my mom gets to see the light that she brought into this world.
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I have forgiven my mom for not understanding who I am... what I am.
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You have to forgive because people are going to hurt you.
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People are going to come and do something that’s going to make you not believe in love, make you not believe in security.
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Things like that are going to happen on Earth.
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And you’re going to have to forgive some very hard things.
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You can’t be happy unless you have forgiven.
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Forgiveness and happiness are the same thing.
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If I could have one gift for every human being on this earth it would be a piece of happiness.
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Where happiness happens is what a human being is.
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It’s a quality of beingness that is above the murmur of worry or uncertainty.
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I’d wish a person to wake up and with all the unknowns that this mystery is, still be blown away by the amount of absolute lovingness that comes from being on this planet.
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That they find for themselves the courage to jump, to run into the unknown.
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(Why are you not scared? Why do you trust?) Because I am love.
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Love has got nothing to be scared of.
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And I trust because I have been given a reason to trust...
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by love. And if you follow your heart, everything is fine.
왜 이 비디오로 말하기 연습을 해야 할까요?
이 비디오는 자기 발견과 진정한 삶을 사는 방법에 대한 깊은 통찰을 제공합니다. 다양한 감정을 표현하는 상황에서의 말하기 연습은 학습자가 자신의 생각과 감정을 영어로 전달하는 데 도움을 줄 수 있습니다. 특히, 이야기는 우리의 두려움과 기대에 대한 탐구로 가득 차 있어, 일상 대화에서 자주 사용되는 주제들에 대한 이해를 돕습니다. 비디오의 주인공이 자신을 알고 받아들이는 과정을 통해, 우리는 일상 대화에서 자주 접하는 주제들을 더 깊이 이해할 수 있습니다. 이를 통해 shadowspeak 기술을 활용하여 말하기 능력을 향상시킬 수 있습니다.
문맥 속 문법 및 표현
이 비디오에서 사용된 몇 가지 핵심적인 문장 구조를 분석하여 더욱 효과적인 말하기 연습을 할 수 있습니다:
- “On the other side of your fear is the life that you want.” - 두려움을 넘으면 원하는 삶이 있다는 표현은 목표 설정에 대한 강한 메시지를 전달합니다.
- “I have come to a place where I have removed all those layers of these opinions.” - 자신의 정체성을 찾기 위한 노력과 단순화를 나타내는 표현입니다.
- “To know that whatever it is that you’re going to do will work for as long as you put your energy and your heart into it.” - 자신의 열정을 쏟는 것의 중요성을 강조하며, 결정적인 행동에 대한 긍정적인 태도를 나타냅니다.
이러한 표현들을 연습하면서, 영어의 다양한 문법 구조와 일상적 표현을 자연스럽게 습득할 수 있습니다.
일반적인 발음 함정
비디오에서 자주 등장하는 몇 가지 발음이 어려운 단어들이 있습니다:
- “compass” - 이 단어는 ‘컴파스’([kʌmpəs])로 발음됩니다. 영어 발음 교정에 도움이 필요할 수 있는 단어입니다.
- “unapologetically” - ‘안 사과하며’라는 뜻인데, 발음이 복잡해 연습이 필요합니다. ‘어난폴로제틱컬리’([ˌʌnəˌpɑːləˈdʒɛtɪkli])로 발음합니다.
- “forgive” - ‘용서하다’의 의미이며, 발음은 ‘포기브’([fərˈɡɪv])로 쉽게 혼동될 수 있습니다.
이러한 단어들을 통해 발음의 미묘한 차이를 이해하고 연습하며, shadow speech 접근방식을 활용하여 발음을 개선할 수 있습니다.
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.