쉐도잉 연습: How I Started Thinking in English 24/7 (Without Translating) - 영상으로 영어 말하기 배우기
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This was me searching for words translating in my head in real time.
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Hello, so this is just a brief introduction for me to tell us.
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That was not a bad day.
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That was just every day.
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Today, I think in English 24 hours a day without translating a single word.
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And I have never lived in an English-speaking country.
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I actually live in a country where nobody speaks English.
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So, what changed?
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It wasn't grammar.
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It wasn't memorizing thousands of words.
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I built a simple system.
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I call it immersion thinking.
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Three steps and once you understand them, you will know exactly how to train your brain to start thinking in English naturally.
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Here's what most people get wrong.
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They think they cannot think in English because they don't know enough words.
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That was my problem.
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I knew the words, I just couldn't use them fast enough to actually think.
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And it took me way too long to figure out why.
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Here's what was actually happening.
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Your brain thinks in whatever language you use the most to understand, react, plan and talk to yourself.
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Back then, almost all of that was happening in my native language.
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I could study English for an hour, close the book, and five minutes later, my brain was completely back to my native language.
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But there was a deeper problem.
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Even when I was surrounded by English, my native language was still working in the background.
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Every time I heard an English word, my brain didn't go straight to the meaning.
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It searched for the matching word in Portuguese first, then connect that to the meaning.
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English, Portuguese, meaning.
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It happened so fast I didn't even notice.
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It felt like I was understanding English directly, but I wasn't.
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So I started training myself to skip that middle part.
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If I felt something, I didn't want to think in my native language first.
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I wanted to connect English straight to that feeling.
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I did this with everything, my emotions, my opinions, the things I wanted to say.
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English stopped feeling like a subject and started feeling like something I could experience directly.
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I thought that was the whole answer.
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I was wrong.
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There was a night I remember clearly.
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I got some bad news and in that moment, the moment I actually needed English the most, my brain didn't think in English.
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It went straight back to my native language.
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Like none of the practice had happened at all.
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And it wasn't just that night.
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When I stubbed my toe, it was my native language.
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When I was dreaming, it was my native language.
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That was kind of frustrating.
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I had been doing this every single day and it felt like it meant nothing.
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But it actually showed me the real problem.
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I could control the thoughts I chose to think about, but I had zero control over the thoughts I didn't choose.
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Honestly, that was the point where I almost gave up.
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And if you are learning English right now and you are at the same point where you feel like nothing's working,
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that's exactly why I built English Achievers, a community for people doing this together.
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It's a place to actually stay consistent instead of doing this alone.
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It's free to join, by the way.
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First link in the description.
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Your brain is not just processing words all day.
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It's planning, remembering, replaying conversations, talking to yourself.
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And almost all of that was still happening in my native language.
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So instead of creating random English thoughts just to practice, I took the thoughts I was already having and let them happen in English instead.
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Wait, if it's that easy to just let your thoughts happen in English, why can you just do that right now?
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Let me show you what I mean.
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Let's say you're about to think about something.
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Most English learners would think of a sentence in their own language first, then maybe translate it into English after.
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That's not what I did.
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That is still translating.
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What I did was stop myself the second I noticed the thought starting.
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Instead of finishing it in my own language, I just started over in English.
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Same thought, same moment.
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But now it happened in English from the start, instead of happening in my language and getting translated.
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At first this feels slow, of course, I had to catch myself a lot, but every time I did it, it got a little faster.
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Until one day, I didn't have to catch myself anymore.
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The thought just started in English on its own own.
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So if I was planning my day, I planned it in English.
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If I was replaying something awkward that happened yesterday, what I should have said or what they actually met, I did it in English.
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That is a completely different feeling than practicing.
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English is not an activity anymore.
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Your life is the activity.
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English is just a language you are using.
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But there was still a gap.
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I could force myself to think in English.
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But when I was just living my life, my brain would choose my native language.
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So I picked the moments where you don't get to choose.
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For example, when you say something on the spot without even thinking about it.
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There's no time to plan a sentence.
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Something just comes out.
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That reaction always came out in my native language.
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Every time.
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Because when you don't have time to think, your brain doesn't think in the language you are learning.
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It thinks in the language it trusts the most.
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So that became the real goal.
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Not the thoughts I could plan, but the thoughts I couldn't and slowly without forcing it the reaction started changing it too.
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I would get surprised and the sound that came out before I even thought about it was English.
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That is how I knew something had actually changed.
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Not that I could speak English on purpose but I couldn't stop it from happening on its own.
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At this point I could force myself to think in English even my reactions were in English.
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I thought I was done but there was one important point
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that if you don't know what it the first two will not work.
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Here's a problem nobody talks about.
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Say you spend one hour a day practicing English on purpose, studying, watching a lesson, whatever.
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That leaves 15 hours where you are awake and doing everything else in your native language.
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Your notes, your messages, what you read for fun, what you watch before bed.
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One hour of English cannot compete with 15 hours of your native language.
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It doesn't matter how good that one hour is.
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The 15 hours always wins because your brain follows the language you use the most.
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So I changed this not by adding more study time but by moving things I was already doing into English.
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My to-do lists, my random notes myself, the shows I watched, the stuff I read for fun.
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Not only things designed to learn English but things I was interested in.
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I stopped asking how do I practice English today, I started asking, how do I do more of today in English?
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And that's the difference.
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It's not about adding a second hour of study.
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It's about removing what you do in your native language as much as possible.
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And once those 15 hours started changing, I didn't need the one hour anymore.
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English wasn't a task on my schedule.
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It was just where I lived.
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So that's it.
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Three steps.
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Remove the middle language.
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Create an English inner world.
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Make English your life.
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That's immersion thinking.
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None of these are hard.
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You don't need to move to another country right now.
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You don't need to memorize thousands of words.
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You just need to give your brain more reasons to actually use English, not just study it.
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And I know this sounds simple, but it took me 1000 days to actually figure out how to make it work.
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I filmed the whole thing.
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The days I struggled, the days I was with, the exact moment things started changing.
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That is a completely different video.
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The full system day by day.
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This video gives you the three steps.
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That one gives you the system to actually do it.
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Go watch next and I see you there.
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이 영상에는 섀도잉할 문장 130개와 단어 1399개가 있습니다. 말하는 구간의 길이는 7:13입니다. 화자는 분당 약 194단어로 빠르게 말하므로 연음과 약하게 발음되는 소리가 많습니다. 단어의 88%가 영어에서 가장 많이 쓰이는 3,000단어에 속해 어휘가 쉬운 편입니다.
이 영상의 핵심 어휘
영상에 나오는 익혀 둘 만한 단어 13개를 발음, 뜻과 함께 정리했습니다.
| 단어 | 발음 | 뜻 |
|---|---|---|
| translate 동사 | /tɹænzˈleɪt/ | 번역하다 |
| connect 동사 | /kəˈnɛkt/ | 잇다, 연결하다 |
| replay 명사 | /ˈɹiːpleɪ/ | 리플레이 |
| lesson 명사 | /ˈlɛs.ən/ | 수업, 과 |
| awkward 형용사 | /ˈɔk.wɚd/ | 서투르다 |
| leaf 명사 | /lif/ | 잎 |
| emotion 명사 | /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/ | 감정 |
| grammar 명사 | /ˈɡɹæm.ə(ɹ)/ | Korean: 문법, 문법학 |
| react 동사 | /ɹiːˈækt/ | 반응하다 |
| awake 동사 | /əˈweɪk/ | 일어나다 |
| memorize 동사 | /ˈmɛm.əˌɹaɪ̯z/ | 기억하다, 암기하다 |
| learner 명사 | /ˈlɜɹnəɹ/ | 학습자 |
| stub 명사 | /stʌb/ | 그루, 그루터기 |
영상에 나오는 구동사
| 단어 | 발음 | 뜻 |
|---|---|---|
| come out 동사 | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | 나오다 |
| give up 동사 | 항복하다 |
주의할 발음
화자는 didn't, don't, wasn't 같은 축약형과 약화된 형태를 24번 사용합니다. 들리는 대로 짧게 발음하세요.
- “sh”와 “zh” 소리: emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, immersion /ɪˈmɝʒən/
이 영상으로 연습하는 방법
- 먼저 말하지 않고 영상을 끝까지 듣고 모르는 단어를 적어 둡니다.
- 0.75배속으로 한 문장씩 섀도잉을 시작하고, 익숙해지면 보통 속도로 돌아갑니다.
- 자신의 목소리를 녹음해 원본과 비교하고, translate, connect, replay 같은 단어에 특히 주의합니다.
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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.