쉐도잉 연습: Stop chasing original ideas—here’s what actually makes you creative - 영상으로 영어 말하기 배우기

레슨 만드는 중...
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What's the movie that we have never seen because you haven't made it?
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And make that movie.
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Years ago when I first heard this, I took it as a challenge.
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Like Tarantino was saying, go make something the world's never seen before.
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Something bold.
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Something completely original.
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And for a long time, that's what I chased.
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I believed that true artistry was about being a visionary. About originality.
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But over time, that interpretation started to fall apart.
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You soon realize that every story has already been told.
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There are only a handful of basic plots and so on.
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But if originality wasn't the key, then what was my role as an artist?
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What made anything I created worth it?
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This question stuck with me, and it sent me searching.
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That's when something came to mind.
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This is Fur Elise by Beethoven.
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You've definitely heard it before.
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Maybe in a music class, maybe in an elevator.
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But there's this interesting thing about it this melody feels kind of inevitable like it always existed
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and Ludwig van just happened to be the one to catch it
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and I had this thought
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if he hadn't written it maybe someone else eventually would have
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could another composer have come up with the same tune probably
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but it would have sounded different it would have carried a different emotional weight
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because the person behind it whoever they were would have brought their own interpretation and that's when something clicked.
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Maybe ideas, themes, stories, they already exist.
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But what turns them into art is how you interpret them.
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How you frame them, feel them, structure them.
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Let me show you what I mean.
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Take the film Gravity.
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On the surface, it's a space movie.
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But it didn't really start that way.
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Alfonso Cuaron had been working on a personal, intimate art house project.
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It fell apart, no financing, no backup plan, and suddenly he was broke.
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I told Hernán, I said, I need to write something right now, but no, no arty shit.
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I need to write something
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that can be appealable for a studio just to pay a check now for me to keep on going.
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And he said, yes, but if you're going to do it, he has to do something that is relevant to you.
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And I says, okay, what do you feel right now?
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He says, I just feel I have to go through all these hobs.
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I just want to put my feet back on the earth.
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I says, there you go.
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He says, but I mean, well, how do you feel?
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He says, I feel like I'm falling in the damp void.
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He says, there you go.
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That feeling became Gravity, a survival thriller.
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Sandra Bullock lost in space, spinning out of control, trying to come back down to Earth.
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And thanks to him, we started structuring the whole thing.
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And he says, you see, at the end, maybe you do a personal film.
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He didn't write about being broke.
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He didn't write about depression.
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he wrote what it felt like.
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Paul Schrader, who wrote Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and First Reformed, has this way of talking about writing that feels more like therapy.
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You begin with yourself.
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You are the raw material.
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He gives his students this exercise.
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Write down your biggest personal problem, not a plot idea, not a character, just the thing you're carrying.
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Then ask yourself, What's the metaphor for that?
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Because that's the thing about powerful storytelling.
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It's not the literal story that hits you.
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It's the feeling underneath it, translated into something new.
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For example, someone who's hiding their sexuality, who spends their life hiding who they are, that doesn't have to turn into a coming -out story.
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It could become a spy thriller, because being closeted can feel like being undercover.
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Always scanning the room, problem.
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Always keeping track of what version of yourself is safe to show.
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Even the people who love you don't fully know you.
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It's not the literal story.
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It's your experience, disguised as a story.
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Because you're actually talking about the problem, without talking about the problem.
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That's what Paul Schrader did with Taxi Driver, too.
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He was broke, alone, disconnected from the world, and then it clicked.
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He was already living the metaphor.
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A man in a taxi, surrounded by people, yet completely alone, watching life through a windshield.
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That became Travis Bickle.
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I mean, I wrote the script essentially for myself, as therapy.
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And so, it was something I was surprised, the degree to which a large number of people plugged into my own neurosis.
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So, the story might be familiar, but how you see it, that's the part no one else can do.
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Because here's the thing, there are only so many plots, but if your problem is real
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and your metaphor is honest those old stories come alive again poured through you like new wine in old bottles
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so maybe it isn't about finding this genius one in a lifetime idea
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but rather tuning into what already exists around you or inside you
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and expressing it in a way only you could but interpretation doesn't always start with personal pain or metaphor
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Sometimes it starts with someone else's story, and what you do with it.
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Take Oldboy, for example.
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It was based on a Japanese manga, which was itself loosely inspired by Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo.
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But Park Shan Wook didn't just adapt it, he completely reinterpreted it through his own lens.
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He kept the premise, a man mysteriously imprisoned for years, then released and told to figure out why.
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but then he flipped the question not why was he locked up
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but why was he let go the story became a modern Greek tragedy filled with taboo guilt
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and emotional punishment none of
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that was in the manga it came from Park his vision his obsessions his culture his own unique filmmaking style that's interpretation.
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And speaking of applying your own style of filmmaking, let's look at a filmmaker who didn't just reinterpret a story.
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He changed what a genre could be.
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Sergio Leone took Kurosawa's Yojimbo and reimagined it as a fistful of dollars.
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He didn't copy it.
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He transformed it, creating the spaghetti western.
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This wasn't a regular western.
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He slowed the pacing, cut scenes to music, ...used silence like tension...
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...framed shots like...
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Sergio Leone!
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Leone made Western heroes dangerous and sexy in a way they had never been before.
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Before him, Westerns were about noble cowboys and clear morality.
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His West was gritty, lawless, ambiguous.
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Survival mattered more than virtue.
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And in doing so, he created an entirely new genre.
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It wasn't a new story, it was a new language.
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But sometimes the genre stays the same, and it's the personal story inside that makes it powerful.
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Like a movie about aliens, something we've seen a hundred times, can feel completely original when it's filtered through someone's life.
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The whole movie for me grew out of growing up in South Africa
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and my experiences growing up as a kid are reflected very accurately in the film.
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Neil Blomkamp grew up in apartheid -era Johannesburg, and when he made his first feature, he didn't write a historical drama or a documentary.
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He made a science fiction film about aliens forced into slums, but it wasn't really about aliens.
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It was about what it felt like to live inside segregation, to grow up in a system built on categories, fences, and forced removals.
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And by telling it that way, he turned his experience into something that we could universally understand.
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He took something massive, sci -fi, and used it to say something deeply personal and political.
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He didn't show the problem directly, he interpreted it.
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That's why District 9 landed so hard.
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Now, compare that to his later movies.
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They had bigger budgets, more visual effects.
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But they didn't land the same way.
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Maybe because they started from concept, not from something lived.
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They didn't carry the same personal weight they didn't feel interpreted
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they felt designed one was born from personal experience the others from concept
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so whether it starts with a metaphor a feeling
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or a genre you grew up loving what matters is
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that it's honest and
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that it's yours maybe that's what Tarantino meant all along make the version of the story
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that only you can good bad
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or indifferent Reservoir Dogs didn't really exist before I did it heist films had been made Hong Kong movie City on Fire, if you've ever seen City on Fire,
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it's very, very different from my movie.
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The section that they say I took, I did take from it, all right?
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Absolutely, I took from it.
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But it's a very different movie.
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They actually talked to the director, Ringo Lamb, he goes, wow, Tarantino took the last 10 minutes of my movie and made an entire movie about it.
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You know, there was Barry Levinson and Tin Men, and there was Goodfellas, and there was all kinds, there was the David Mamet stuff, all that stuff existed that was sort of like Reservoir Dogs,
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but it wasn't reservoir dogs it didn't have this aesthetic
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that I that I'd been having was never just there I mean
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if it was just there if two
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or three other people were doing it I might have been the filmmaker
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because I didn't need to get it out of my head
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so maybe it's not about chasing the next great idea
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or inventing something no one's ever thought of maybe it's about making something no one else could have made, because it came through you.

이 레슨의 어휘와 말하기 포인트

이 말하기 레슨은 영상 “Stop chasing original ideas—here’s what actually makes you creative”을(를) 바탕으로 합니다. 가장 자주 반복되는 단어는 다음과 같습니다: movie, personal, write. 이 영상에는 섀도잉할 문장 97개와 단어 1613개가 있습니다. 말하는 구간의 길이는 9:48입니다. 화자는 분당 약 164단어로, 일상 대화에 가까운 자연스러운 속도로 말합니다. 영어에서 가장 많이 쓰이는 3,000단어에 속하는 단어가 81%뿐이라 어휘가 어려운 편입니다.

이 영상의 핵심 어휘

영상에 나오는 익혀 둘 만한 단어 15개를 발음, 뜻과 함께 정리했습니다.

단어발음뜻
metaphor 명사/ˈmɛt.ə.fɚ/비유, 은유
interpretation 명사/ɪnˌtɜːpɹəˈteɪʃən/통역
genre 명사/ˈ(d)ʒɑnɹə/장르
taxi 명사/ˈtæksi/택시, 딱씨
interpret 동사/ɪnˈtɜː.pɹɪt/해석하다
chase 동사/t͡ʃeɪs/쫓다
spin 동사/spɪn/회전하다
survival 명사/sɚˈvaɪ.vəl/생존
tune 명사/tjuːn/곡, 곡조
thriller 명사/ˈθɹɪ.lə/스릴러
mango 명사/ˈmæŋɡəʊ/망고
silence 명사/ˈsaɪ̯ləns/침묵
compare 동사/kəmˈpɛɚ/비교하다, 비유하다
deeply 부사/ˈdi(ː)pli/깊이
fiction 명사/ˈfɪkʃən/소설, 픽션

영상에 나오는 구동사

단어발음뜻
come back 동사돌아오다
come out 동사/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/나오다
write down 동사적다, 적어 두다

따라 말해 볼 만한 문장

영상에 나오는 짧고 완결된 문장으로, 일상 대화에서 그대로 쓸 수 있습니다:

  • You soon realize that every  story's already been told.
  • What made anything I created worth it?
  • Just the thing you're carrying.
  • It's not the literal story that hits you.
  • It’s  your experience disguised as a story.

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 때have never seen · has already been told · You've definitely heard
수동태 be + 과거분사 — 누가 하는지보다 무슨 일이 일어나는지에 초점been told · being closeted · was based
관계절 who / which + 절 — 사람이나 사물에 대한 추가 정보people who love · manga, which was

주의할 발음

화자는 didn't, wasn't, you're 같은 축약형과 약화된 형태를 34번 사용합니다. 들리는 대로 짧게 발음하세요.

  • “th” 소리: thriller /ˈθɹɪ.lə/, breathe /bɹiːð/, underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/, aesthetic /ɛsˈθɛ.tɪk/
  • “sh”와 “zh” 소리: interpretation /ɪnˌtɜːpɹəˈteɪʃən/, genre /ˈ(d)ʒɑnɹə/, fiction /ˈfɪkʃən/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, punishment /ˈpʌnɪʃmənt/
  • 긴 단어 — 강세 위치에 주의: interpretation /ɪnˌtɜːpɹəˈteɪʃən/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, documentary /ˌdɒk.jʊˈmɛn.tɹi/, inevitable /ɪˈnɛvɪtəbəl/, accurately /ˈæk.jə.ɹɪt.li/

한국어 화자가 어려워하는 소리:

  • /f/ — ㅍ(/p/)으로 바꾸지 말고 윗니를 아랫입술에 대기: metaphor /ˈmɛt.ə.fɚ/, fiction /ˈfɪkʃən/, lifetime /ˈlaɪf.taɪm/, reflect /ɹɪˈflɛkt/, filter /ˈfɪltɚ/
  • /v/ — ㅂ(/b/)과 구별하기: survival /sɚˈvaɪ.vəl/, whoever /huˈɛvɚ/, removal /ɹɪˈmuː.vəl/, inevitable /ɪˈnɛvɪtəbəl/, void /vɔɪd/
  • /z/ — ㅈ이 아니라 성대를 울리는 /s/: lens /lɛnz/, closet /ˈklɑzɪt/, translate /tɹænzˈleɪt/, composer /kəmˈpoʊzəɹ/, disguise /dɪsˈɡaɪz/

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, metaphor, interpretation, genre 같은 단어에 특히 주의합니다.

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