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On April 7th, at 5 :32pm, Donald Trump announced a ceasefire with Iran.
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And from this announcement, we learned two things: First, Truth Social is the single greatest invention of our generation,
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and is totally not a useless social media platform.
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And second, markets don't like uncertainty.
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Because the very next day after the announcement, the markets ripped.
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The S &P closed up 2 .5%, the Nasdaq almost 3%, and the Dow climbed more than 1 ,300 points, year.
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But it didn't just stop there.
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Because a few weeks later, stocks were back at record highs, even as the ceasefire was actively falling apart in real time.
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Traditional financial media was calling this a relief rally, that the markets were celebrating peace.
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But the truth is, that's not what this was.
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This was something else entirely.
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But to understand what actually happened, why markets can be at all -time highs when there's a war going on, you first need to understand what Wall Street looked like going into this.
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Because there's a lot more to this story than just a relief rally.
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On February 28th, the US and Israel launched joint airstrikes on Iran.
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Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed.
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Then Iran shut down the Strait of Hormuz.
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And the market had its worst five -week losing streak in nearly four years.
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The S &P was down nearly 9 % by the end of March.
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And while your retirement account was quietly screaming, there was something else happening underneath the surface.
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Wall Street was beginning to panic.
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Hedge funds didn't just start repositioning.
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at the fastest pace in 13 years.
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And that's not a loose estimate.
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That's hard data.
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Because Goldman Sachs had a front row seat to the show.
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They run what's called a prime brokerage desk, which services most of the major hedge funds on Wall Street, which means they see what these hedge funds are buying,
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what they're selling, and just how leveraged they are.
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And according to Goldman's own numbers, Q1 hedge fund selling in North America was the largest since April 2020.
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Gross leverage was And short exposure to macro ETFs like SPY and QQQ hit the highest level since the pandemic.
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And then on March 19th, commodity analyst Rory Johnston said this.
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If you think about some kind of massive detonation in the oil market supply chain in the Middle East, and there's this shockwave that's kind of moving out, this shock is too large for the system to handle,
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and it will begin to creak and break the longer this goes on.
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Just how many barrels per day were those disruptions, you know, the squeeze of 2008, and how big is this in comparison?
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It's bigger than anything in history.
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to speak with people again that are I respect people that are not alarmist people that make fun of the alarmists
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They're all terrified.
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Let's say the East -West pipeline is maxed.
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There's no issues at Yanbu.
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The Houthis don't get involved, etc., etc. In that scenario, with the strait remaining closed, we still need to shed 15 million barrels a day of global demand.
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And that just means prices, yeah.
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$250, $300 a barrel Brent.
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Like, we will hit all -time highs in that scenario on an inflation -adjusted basis.
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almost guaranteed, almost by necessity.
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So I do think in that scenario, again, recession is too light a term.
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We're talking depressionary.
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Fast forward six weeks later, and this might be the funniest take of the year.
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We'll come back to why in a second.
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But at this point, the sentiment on the street was pretty clear.
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Everyone was bearish.
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Then, on the evening of April 7th, Trump announced the ceasefire.
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And when the markets opened the next morning, it was like someone turned Jerome Powell's money printer back on.
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Because over 400 names in the S &P finished green, 13 stocks printed all -time highs, Brent crude dropped around 13 .5%, and WTI crude fell over 16%.
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marking the biggest single day decline since April 2020.
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But here's where the mainstream explanation for all of this starts to break.
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According to maritime intelligence firm Windward, who utilizes AI to cross -reference digital GPS signals with satellite radar and imagery,
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only five outbound carriers were actually detected moving through the strait by midday.
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This is a roughly 96 % decrease in activity compared to
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the pre -war baseline of around 130 daily transits through the Strait of Hormuz.
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So something's not adding up.
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How can there be a relief rally based on world peace, if there's actually no world peace?
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Which raises the question, what really moved the markets?
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And the answer is, a good old -fashioned short squeeze.
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And I can prove it.
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But for this to make sense, we first need to explain the underlying mechanics of a short squeeze.
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Because when you short a stock, you're borrowing shares from someone and selling them.
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You're betting the price drops so you can buy them back cheaper at a later date, return them, and profit the spread.
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But if the price goes up instead, you're f*ed because you still have to return those shares you borrowed, which means you have to buy them back at a higher price than you sold them at.
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And if the price keeps rising, your losses keep you either add more money to your account, or you close the position immediately.
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And when enough people get margin calls at the same time, they all have to buy back their shares.
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That buying pushes the price up, which triggers more margin calls, which triggers more buying.
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And that's a short squeeze.
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And on April 8th, when the macro short exposure was at the highest level since 2020, the squeeze began.
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But the squeeze was only the first domino to fall, because once stocks started ripping, the algorithms kicked in.
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And this is where the CTAs,
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or Commodity Trading enter the story.
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Thank you.
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These are systematic trading firms that run on rules -based models.
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They don't care about news.
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They don't care about geopolitics.
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They just follow trends.
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When the trend is down, their algorithms say "short." When the trend is up, their algorithms say "long." It's mechanical trading.
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Goldman reported that CTAs were sitting on about a 30 billion net short position, going into the ceasefire.
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But the second the S &P crossed certain trigger levels, these models flipped.
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And they didn't flip to neutral.
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They flipped to go long.
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these CTAs would need to buy back around $40 billion of equities to exit their short positions.
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But the actual number ended up being $86 billion, across just five trading sessions, which, according to Goldman's records,
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is a top five buying speed print of all time.
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And then there was the third domino to fall, the options market.
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Dealers on the other side of options trades have to stay delta neutral, which means when customers pile into calls, dealers hedge by buying the underlying stock.
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And SpotGamma, a leading financial data platform, had flagged a negative gamma regime heading into the ceasefire.
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That's the regime where dealer hedging flips from stabilizing to pro -cyclical.
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Price goes up, dealers buy more, price goes up more.
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You get the point.
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So a squeeze, plus a systematic flip, plus dealer hedging.
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Three dominoes, all falling one after another.
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the rally.
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That's what we saw.
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And here's the funny thing: this isn't the first time we've watched this movie.
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It's a very similar pattern that has played out again and again over the last decade.
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Because go back to December 2018, stocks had been crashing for months on fears of a rate hike.
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Then Jerome Powell goes on stage and says one word: "Patient." And the Dow explodes.
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It was the first time the Dow had ever gained more than a thousand points
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hiked rates for the first time in 17 years.
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The yen carry trade began to unwind, which I've made a video about.
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Then the nikki drops 12 % in a day, then bounces 10 % the next.
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These are all different catalysts but the same mechanisms.
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And the reason this keeps happening is that the structure of the stock market itself has changed.
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20 years ago, the market was dominated by humans.
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Portfolio managers reading earnings reports, analysts modeling cash flows, people making discretionary decisions about what companies were actually But now,
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that market is basically gone.
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Today, 63 % of all US stock funds are now held by passive indexers.
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That's more than $13 trillion of "blind money" that doesn't read earnings reports or care if Apple had a good quarter.
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It just follows the index on autopilot.
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And because most passive funds are market cap weighted, the bigger a company gets, the more of it they buy,
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which is how the Magnificent Seven now makes up over 33 % of the S &P 500.
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So a massive chunk of the market isn't being priced out anymore.
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It's receiving allocation on default.
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And what's left of the active investing side has also changed.
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The hedge fund industry has consolidated into a handful of giant multi -strategy funds that dominate the industry.
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The Millenniums, the Citadels, and the .72s of the world.
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And their assets under management have grown exponentially over the last decade.
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These funds typically run at 4 to 8 times leverage with strict drawdown rules, which means when they hit a drawdown limit,
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or whether the war is really over, they sell immediately.
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And underneath all of this is the options market.
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Because now, same -day expiration options make up around 63 % of all SPX trading.
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On peak days, we're seeing over $2 trillion of notional value change hands in a single trading session.
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Every one of those options forces a dealer on the other side to hedge in real time, which leads to buying or selling the underlying stock to keep their books balanced.
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So the dominant players in 2026 aren't analyzing valuations or fundamentals.
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They're reacting.
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And when price moves, their what happened on April 8th.
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Once you understand this, once you understand the mechanics behind why markets are irrational, everything starts to make a little more sense.
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So if you're tired of watching traditional financial media hand you the dumbed down version of what's happening in markets, hit subscribe.
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Because this is the stuff they conveniently forget to cover.
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Because the stock market we all used to know and love, the one about finding undervalued companies and investing in them for the long term,
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that stock market feedback loop of algorithms, passive funds, and options dealers all reacting to each other in real time.
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And the headlines?
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Well, they're just the narratives people use to help rationalize things.

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이 B2 수준 말하기 레슨은 영상 “if war bad... why stocks go up?”을(를) 바탕으로 합니다. 가장 자주 반복되는 단어는 다음과 같습니다: stock, fund, price, hedge, squeeze. 이 영상에는 섀도잉할 문장 138개와 단어 1753개가 있습니다. 말하는 구간의 길이는 10:03입니다. 화자는 분당 약 174단어로, 일상 대화에 가까운 자연스러운 속도로 말합니다. 영어에서 가장 많이 쓰이는 3,000단어에 속하는 단어가 80%뿐이라 어휘가 어려운 편입니다.

이 영상의 핵심 어휘

영상에서 가장 어려운 단어 15개를 발음, 뜻과 함께 정리했습니다.

단어발음뜻
hedge 명사/ˈhɛd͡ʒ/울타리
squeeze 동사/skwiːz/짜다
dealer 명사/ˈdiːlə(ɹ)/딜러, 영맨
ceasefire 명사정전, 휴전
strait 명사/stɹeɪt/해협
algorithm 명사/ˈælɡəɹɪðm̩/알고리즘, 알고리듬
passive 형용사/ˈpæs.ɪv/수동태
barrel 명사/ˈbæɹəl/통
scenario 명사/sɪˈnɛəɹioʊ/각본, 대본
macroeconomics 명사/ˌmæk.ɹoʊˌiː.kəˈnɒ.mɪks/거시경제학
mechanic 명사/mɪˈkænɪk/정비공, 기계공
commodity 명사/kəˈmɑdəti/상품, 물품
dominate 동사/ˈdɑ.məˌneɪt/지배(支配)하다
hike 명사/haɪk/등산, 하이킹
react 동사/ɹiːˈækt/반응하다

영상에 나오는 구동사

단어뜻
go up 동사올라가다
fall over 동사넘어지다

이 영상의 문법

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

문형영상 속 표현
현재완료 have/has + 과거분사 — 과거의 일이 지금도 관련이 있을 때we've watched · has played · I've made
수동태 be + 과거분사 — 누가 하는지보다 무슨 일이 일어나는지에 초점was killed · is maxed · were actually detected
관계절 who / which + 절 — 사람이나 사물에 대한 추가 정보Street, which means · borrowed, which means · neutral, which means

주의할 발음

화자는 don't, they're, you're 같은 축약형과 약화된 형태를 24번 사용합니다. 들리는 대로 짧게 발음하세요.

  • “th” 소리: algorithm /ˈælɡəɹɪðm̩/, underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/
  • “sh”와 “zh” 소리: detonation /dɛtəˈneɪʃən/, discretionary /dɪsˈkɹɛʃəˌnɛɹi/, expiration /ˌɛk.spɚˈeɪ̯.ʃən/, exponentially /ɛkspə(ʊ)ˈnɛnʃəli/, notional /ˈnoʊʃənəl/
  • 긴 단어 — 강세 위치에 주의: macroeconomics /ˌmæk.ɹoʊˌiː.kəˈnɒ.mɪks/, commodity /kəˈmɑdəti/, systematic /ˌsɪs.tɪˈmæt.ɪk/, autopilot /ˈɔtoʊˌpaɪlət/, consolidate /kənˈsɒl.ɪ.deɪt/

한국어 화자가 어려워하는 소리:

  • /f/ — ㅍ(/p/)으로 바꾸지 말고 윗니를 아랫입술에 대기: flip /flɪp/, terrify /ˈtɛɹɪfaɪ/, handful /ˈhæn(d)fʊl/, inflation /ɪnˈfleɪ.ʃən/, portfolio /pɔːtˈfəʊ.liˌəʊ/
  • /v/ — ㅂ(/b/)과 구별하기: leverage /ˈlɛv.(ə.)ɹɪd͡ʒ/, passive /ˈpæs.ɪv/, undervalue /ˌʌndə(ɹ)ˈvælju/, conveniently /kənˈvinjəntli/, valuation /ˌvæ.ljuːˈeɪ.ʃən/
  • /z/ — ㅈ이 아니라 성대를 울리는 /s/: squeeze /skwiːz/, rationalize /ˈɹæʃənəlaɪz/, stabilize /ˈsteɪ.bəˌlaɪz/, utilize /ˈjuː.tɪ.laɪz/, analyze /ˈæn.əˌlaɪz/

이 영상으로 연습하는 방법

  1. 먼저 말하지 않고 영상을 끝까지 듣고 모르는 단어를 적어 둡니다.
  2. 0.75배속으로 한 문장씩 섀도잉을 시작하고, 익숙해지면 보통 속도로 돌아갑니다.
  3. 자신의 목소리를 녹음해 원본과 비교하고, hedge, squeeze, dealer 같은 단어에 특히 주의합니다.

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