쉐도잉 연습: DICTATION2 UNIT15 - 영상으로 영어 말하기 배우기

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Unit 15.
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People are different.
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There are more than 6 billion human beings in the world.
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Each one is different from all the others.
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No two people look exactly alike.
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People from one country may look the same in general, but they are not totally alike.
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Most people in Vietnam have straight black hair and black eyes.
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But they all look different.
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People in America have straight hair, curly hair, or wavy hair.
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Their hair may be black, brown, yellow, or red.
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Some people have brown or gray eyes.
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Some have blue or green eyes.
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Even people in the same family look different from each other.
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We all think differently.
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We all like different things.
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We like different kinds of food and different kinds of music.
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We also like different styles of clothing.
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Wherever you are, you are different from everyone else.
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Nobody else looks just like you.
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Nobody has your thoughts or your talents.
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There are more than six billion people on Earth, but none of them are exactly like you.
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You are one of a kind.

Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “DICTATION2 UNIT15”. This video has 22 sentences and 176 words to shadow. The speech runs for 1:11. The speaker talks at a steady 149 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 93% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.

Key vocabulary in this video

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

WordPronunciationMeaning
alike adjective/əˈlaɪk/Having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference.
clothing noun/ˈkloʊðɪŋ/Any of a wide variety of articles, usually made of fabrics, animal hair, animal skin, or some combination thereof, used to cover the human body for warmth, to…
gray adjective/ɡɹeɪ/Of a color between black and white, having neutral hue and intermediate brightness.
wherever/(h)wɛɹˈɛvɚ/Regardless of the place in, at or to which.
differently adverb/ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/In a different way.
curly adjective/ˈkɝli/Having curls.
wavy adjective/ˈweɪvi/Rising or swelling in waves.
yellow adjective/ˈjɛloʊ/Of a yellow hue.
talent noun/ˈtæl.ənt/A marked natural ability or skill.
nobody noun/ˈnoʊ.bə.di/A person dismissed as unimportant.
unit noun/ˈjuː.nɪt/Oneness, singularity, seen as a component of a whole number; a magnitude of one.
none/noʊn/Not any of a given number or group.
totally adverb/ˈtəʊ.tə.li/To the fullest extent or degree.

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 alike, clothing, gray.

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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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