쉐도잉 연습: Lukas Graham - 7 Years (Lyrics) - 영상으로 영어 말하기 배우기

Once I

was seven years old My mama told me go Make yourself some friends

or you'll be lonely Once I was seven years old It was a big,

big world, but we thought we were bigger Pushing each other to the limits, we were learning quicker By eleven,

smoking herb and drinking burning liquor Never rich, so we were out to make that steady bigger Once I was eleven years old,

my daddy told me Go get yourself a wife or you'd be lonely Once I was eleven years old

I always had that dream like my daddy before me So I started writing songs, I started writing stories Something about

that glory just always seemed to bore me Cause only those

I really love will never really know me Once I was twenty years old,

my story got told Before the morning sun when life was lonely Once I was twenty years old

I only see my goals,

I don't believe in failure Cause I know the smallest voices, they can make it major I got my boys with me,

at least those in favor And if we don't need before I leave, I hope I'll see you later Once I was twenty years old,

my story got told I was writing about everything I saw before me Once I was twenty years old

Soon we'll be thirty years old Our songs have been sold We've traveled around the world

and we're still roaming Soon we'll be thirty years old

I'm still learning about life My woman brought children for me

So I can sing them all my songs

And I can tell them stories Most of my boys are with me Some are still out seeking glory

And some I had to leave behind My brother, I'm still savvy Soon I'll be sixty years old My daddy got sixty-one Remember life

and then your life becomes a better one

I made a man so happy

when I wrote a letter once I hope my children come

and visit once

or twice a month Soon I'll be sixty years old Will I think the world is cold

or will I have a lot of children who can bore me Soon I'll be sixty years old

Soon I'll be sixty years old Will I think the world is cold?

Or will I have a lot of children who can hold me?

Soon I'll be sixty years old

Once I was seven years old

Mama told me go Make yourself some friends or you'll be lonely Once I was seven years old

Once I was seven years old I love you, you are the only one

Thank you.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “Lukas Graham - 7 Years”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: sixty, seven, lonely, twenty, eleven. This video has 33 sentences and 449 words to shadow. The speech runs for 4:20. The speaker talks slowly, about 104 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. Only 81% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

The 13 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
sixty noun	/ˈsɪksti/	A commercial lasting 60 seconds.
lonely adjective	/ˈloʊnli/	Unhappy due to feeling isolated from contact with other people.
daddy noun	/ˈdædi/	Also used as a term of address: a father; one's father.
eleven noun	/əˈlɛv.ən/	A cricket team of eleven players. Hence first eleven - the team of best cricket players (at a school), second eleven - the "B" team, etc.
thirty noun	/ˈθɝti/	A commercial lasting 30 seconds.
glory noun	/ˈɡlɔːɹi/	Great beauty and splendor.
mama noun	/ˈmɑmə/	Synonym of mother (“a female parent”).
steady adjective	/ˈstɪdi/	Firm in standing or position; not tottering or shaking; fixed; firm.
liquor noun	/ˈlɪk.ɚ/	A liquid obtained by cooking meat or vegetables (or both).
herb noun	/hɜːb/	A plant whose stem is not woody and does not persist beyond each growing season.
litter noun	/ˈlɪt.ɚ/	Straw, grass, and similar loose material used as bedding for people or animals.
savvy adjective	/ˈsæv.i/	Shrewd, well-informed and perceptive.
roam verb	/ɹoʊm/	To wander or travel freely and with no specific destination.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
leave behind verb	To abandon.

이 영상의 문법

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

문형	영상 속 표현
관계절 who / which + 절 — 사람이나 사물에 대한 추가 정보	children who can
과거진행 was/were + -ing — 과거의 어느 시점에 진행 중이던 동작	were learning · was writing
“will” 미래 will + 동사 — 결정, 약속 또는 예측	you'll be · will never really know · I'll see
현재진행 am/is/are + -ing — 지금 또는 요즘 일어나고 있는 일	we're still roaming · I'm still learning

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 17 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'll, don't, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like sixty, lonely, daddy.

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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