쉐도잉 연습: STOP Saying "My Name Is…" When Someone Asks About You in English - 영상으로 영어 말하기 배우기

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Tell me a little about yourself.
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Four seconds go by.
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Then you hear yourself say it.
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My name is, I'm from, I work in a company.
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And you sit there thinking, that's not me.
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I know so much more English than that.
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You see, here's what nobody tells you.
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That answer is not wrong.
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It's just forgettable.
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And in a job interview, a first meeting, a new class, forgettable costs you.
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People decide who you are in the first 15 seconds you speak
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and your English is giving them a form to read instead of a person to meet.
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That changes today.
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I'm going to give you two answers to that same question, then show you the exact three part shape behind the good one.
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It works for almost any question in English.
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And along the way, I'll give you one advanced word, one expression, and one idiom that will make you sound instantly more natural.
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But stay with me to the end, because I want to tell you a true story.
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A boy who didn't speak a single word in his class for eight years, not one word to his classmates.
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And he grew up to have one of the most famous voices in the world.
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What changed for him is exactly what needs to change for you.
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Are you ready?
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Well, then let's jump right in part one,
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the question, can you tell me a little about yourself?
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This is a question that you have probably been asked many times.
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It's a question that people ask on a regular basis.
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Can you tell me a little about yourself?
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But how can you answer this question?
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I want to give you two different responses to this same question.
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Response number one, the learner response.
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Hello, my name is Daniela.
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I am from Brazil.
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I am 34 years old.
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I work in a company.
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I like my job.
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I have two children.
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In my free time, I like to watch movies.
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Thank you.
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That was the learner response.
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Now listen to the fluent English speaker response and notice the differences.
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Here we go.
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Oh, sure.
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So I'm Daniela.
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I'm from Curitiba down in the South of Brazil.
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I work as a project manager for a logistics company where I oversee shipments across Latin America.
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And I've got two kids who keep me pretty busy.
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Honestly, I'd say the best part of my life right now is my job.
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I really love it.
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Mostly because no two days are the same.
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I get to work with people from all over the world and I'm always learning something new.
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Like just last year, my team and I flew to Chicago for a big client meeting.
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It was my first time presenting in English in front of about 20 people and I was so nervous,
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but I pushed through because I knew it was a huge opportunity for my career.
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And honestly, we knocked it out of the park.
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We landed the contract.
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So yeah, that's a little about me.
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You see how different these two responses are.
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This leads us to our next part why are they different
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here's the first thing a form versus a person this is reason number one you see the learner's answer
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that first answer we heard sounds like she's filling out a form
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name country age job however the fluent answer
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that second answer sounds like you've actually started to meet someone you're actually engaging with someone one is a form
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that you're checking off the other is actually a person here's
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reason number two it has a shape the learner's answer
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that first one could end after each sentence any sentence that was stated could end the response However,
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the fluent answer builds from simple facts to what she thinks to a real moment and lands with a clear finish.
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This is what makes it so different.
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You're not just saying one point, two points, three points.
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You're actually going from one point to the next and connecting them.
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This is reason number two.
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Now we have reason number three.
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Thank you.
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A door versus a wall.
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You see that thank you that was said at the end of the learner's response.
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That thank you ends the conversation.
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It's a door that is closing Chicago, the presentation, landing the contract,
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all give the listeners something to ask about in the second response, the fluent English speaker's response.
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One answer closes the door.
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The other one opens it.
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Ooh, what about Chicago?
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Oh, the presentation, wait a minute.
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You landed a contract causing the person to actually want to know more opening the door, not closing it like a wall.
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This leads us now to our next part,
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the method, how can you sound like the fluent English speakers response and not the learner response?
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So I want you to think about this.
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Remember that shape we talked about that shape I mentioned earlier, it has a name it's called the fluency panion,
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and it looks like a target with a center and three rings.
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Let me show this to you visually.
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Again, we're speaking about this method that can help you sound like that fluent response.
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So let's draw this out.
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We have in the center, this target right in the center.
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And then we have three rings around it.
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Again, this is the method you need to follow to sound like that fluent speakers response, the second response that we had.
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Now, the next thing is the three rings.
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We have the target in the center, and then we have three rings around this target.
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This is called the fluency panion.
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Now, every time you answer a question, you start in the middle and you move outward one ring at a time.
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So what does this center ring represent?
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It represents the question, or you can say the topic.
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This is our center.
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The target starts with the question.
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Everything starts here.
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Before you say a word, get clear on what you're actually being asked.
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What is the person asking you?
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This is your starting point and every ring connects back to it.
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So remember, we started off with the question, can you tell me a little about yourself?
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Now, how did Daniela respond?
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The second person, right?
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Looking at that fluent speaker response, let's say her name actually was Daniela.
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I'm going to give her a name, Dan Yella.
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This was the second response, the more fluent response.
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Now, Dan Yella responded to the question.
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Again, the question, can you tell me a little about yourself?
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Her response, the first one was, oh sure.
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So I'm Dan Yella.
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Again, the question was, can you tell me about yourself?
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Her starting point.
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So I'm Dan Yella.
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All right.
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Now this leads us to ring number one.
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We have the target.
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We have the question, but ring number one is where we start to get into the nitty gritty.
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So ring number one, this represents three details.
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So ring number one represents three details.
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Now you're going to give three specific facts or detailed connected to the question,
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not general information, but details that could only be about you.
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This is very important for you to realize these details need to be about you.
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This ring actually helps the listener see you clearly.
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So ring number one, the three details, it's very important.
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So going back to our question again, tell me about yourself, Daniela, again, we're having this name for our response.
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This is what she said for ring number one.
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I'm from Curitiba down in the South of Brazil.
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I work as a project manager for a logistics company where I oversee shipments across Latin America,
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and I've got two kids who keep me pretty busy.
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What was detail number one?
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She's from Curitiba in the South of Brazil,
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detail number two, she's a project manager who oversees shipments across Latin America and detail number three,
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she has two kids who keep her busy.
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So once again, ring number one of our fluency opinion, our method is the three details.
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This is our first ring
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and she gave three details now within her response we heard
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a brand new advanced vocabulary word the word was oversee good
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again after me oversee excellent now this word oversee just means to be in charge of something
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and make sure it's done correctly to be in charge of something
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and make sure it's done correctly an example sentence i oversee a team of six people
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so my calendar fills up fast all right
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so she said where i oversee shipments across latin america all right
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so we have our first ring again ring number one three details this leads us now to ring number two.
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Ring number two is all about giving your opinion plus three reasons.
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All right.
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Giving your opinion and you have to add three reasons.
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All right.
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Your opinion plus three reasons.
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This is ring number two.
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Again, the target is the question or the topic.
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Ring number one, three details at ring number two, your opinion, plus three reasons.
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Now, what you're going to do is share what you think or how you feel.
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Then you're going to give three reasons why you actually feel this way.
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Again, we're making this shape to help you sound more fluent, like a native speaker.
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So this second ring, again, your opinion, plus three reasons, this ring shows the listener who you are on the inside,
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not just the facts.
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Remember ring number one is where you gave the details, but ring number two actually invites them in.
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So Daniela, our individual said this, honestly, I'd say the best part of my life right now is my job.
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I really love it.
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Mostly because no two days are the same.
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I get to work with people from all over the world
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and I'm always learning something new what happened we heard daniella
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do what she gave her opinion plus three reasons again this is ring number two opinion plus three reasons
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so what was her opinion the opinion the best part of
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her life right now is her job what about her three reasons reason Number one, no two days are the same reason.
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Number two, she works with people from all over the world.
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And reason number three, she's always learning something new again, ring.
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Number two, your opinion plus three reasons.
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And this is exactly what she did.
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Now, as you listened to her opinion and three reasons, you heard a brand new expression.
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The advanced English expression is no two days are the same again,
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after me, no two days are the same.
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Excellent.
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Now this expression just means that every day is different.
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Things are always changing, usually in a way you enjoy.
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Here's an example sentence.
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I love being a nurse.
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No two days are the same.
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Makes sense, right?
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Excellent.
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Now, Daniela in her response said, I really love it mostly because no two days are the same.
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All right.
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So we have ring number one, the details and ring number two, your opinion plus three reasons.
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This leads us to ring number three.
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Now, ring number three is a personal experience plus the five W's.
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Again, a personal experience plus the five W's.
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Now, remember our five W's are who, what, when, where, and why.
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All right.
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So a personal experience plus the five W's.
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This is what you're going to do.
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You're wrapping up your response by sharing a real moment from your life.
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Something that actually happened.
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You're inviting the listener in.
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Now you're connecting your response to your life.
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You're going to use the five W's who, what, when, where, and why.
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So your listener can start picturing what you're saying.
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This ring, our third ring makes your answer memorable.
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So listen again to what was said by Daniela.
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Like last year, just last year, my team and I flew to Chicago for a big client meeting.
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It was my first time presenting in English in front of about 20 people.
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And I was so nervous, but I pushed through because I knew it was a huge opportunity for my career.
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And honestly, we knocked it out the park.
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We landed the contract.
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So this was Daniela's last part of her response.
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That third ring, again, her personal experience, plus the five W's.
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Now let's break it down.
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Her personal experience was her first presentation in English, which helped land a contract.
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The who?
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Daniela and her team.
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What?
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A big client presentation. When?
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Last year. Where?
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Chicago.
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Why?
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It was a huge opportunity for her career.
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Now in that response, we heard a new English idiom.
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The English idiom was knock it out of the park.
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Good again, after me, knock it out of the park.
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Excellent.
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Now the definition of this idiom, it just means to do something extremely well, to succeed even more than expected.
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For example, it came from baseball when a player hits the ball completely out of the stadium.
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Wow.
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He or she did better than expected.
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Knock it out of the park.
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Now here's an example sentence, you knocked that interview out of the park.
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I'd be shocked if they didn't call you back, knocked it out of the park.
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So again, looking at the shape, this shape that we have for our method to help you sound like a native speaker.
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Our last ring again was the personal experience plus five W's.
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We have our three rings.
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The center again is the question or the topic.
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Then you give the facts or the details for ring number one.
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Then you give your feelings, your opinion, right?
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And your reasons.
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And then you give a real moment, your personal experience.
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And notice how Daniela finishes.
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She finished by saying, so yeah, that's a little about me.
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In other words, she brings it right back to the center.
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This is the shape.
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This is the shape you want to use when you answer a question, when you speak about a topic.
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Now this fluency opinion is just one of six fluency methods I use to help you speak English with confidence.
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If you want to learn the other five and master every one of them, grab my fluency handbook.
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The link is right here in the description, or you can go to my website.
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Again, the link is right in the description and you can find out how you can master these fluency methods, go get it.
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And let's keep building your fluency together.
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I'll talk to you next time.
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You still there?
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You know what time it is.
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It's story time.
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I said it's story time.
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All right.
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Story time is back, but it is story time 2 .0.
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I am going to be telling you a story, a true story.
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This story is called the silent boy who became the voice.
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I want you to imagine you have something to say, but you can't say it.
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Not for a day, not for a week, for eight long years.
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This, my friend, is a true story.
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And the boy in this story grew up to have one of the most famous voices in the world.
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But I'm not going to tell you his name, not yet.
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When he was about five years old, his world changed.
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His entire world changed.
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He moved from Mississippi to live with his grandparents on their farm in Dublin, Michigan.
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Everyone thought the move would be a wonderful new beginning.
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What child wouldn't love living on a farm?
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But years later, when he wrote his autobiography, he described it very differently.
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He wrote, for me, it was a heartbreak.
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And not long after that move, something happened to this little boy's voice.
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he began to stutter he couldn't get his words out properly now lots of children stutter
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but his stutter became so severe
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that he made a decision no child should ever have to make this little boy decided to stop talking,
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to not say a word to any of the kids at school.
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His first year of school became his first silent year.
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Then another and another.
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From first grade all the way to his first year of high school, this boy barely spoke a word.
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How did he talk to his teachers? he wrote notes.
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What about his classmates?
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He wrote notes.
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Now he could talk to the animals on the farm, but talking to people, that was too painful, too embarrassing because of his stutter.
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So imagine being that boy, sitting in class, full of thoughts, full of ideas, full of feelings,
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and keeping every single one of them locked inside.
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But here's what nobody could see.
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Inside that silent boy, inside that little boy who had chosen not to speak, there were words, beautiful words.
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He was writing poetry.
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And in high school, this same little boy had a change happen to him.
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You see, one person noticed his English teacher, a man named Donald Crouch.
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Mr. Crouch read one of the boy's poems.
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Remember, he was writing, even though words weren't coming out of his mouth, they were coming out of his head and his heart on paper.
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Mr. Crouch read one of the boy's poems.
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And then he said something surprising.
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He told him the poem was so good, he didn't believe the boy had written it and then came the challenge.
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The teacher said, listen, if you really wrote this poem, prove it.
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Stand up in front of the whole class and say it out loud.
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Think about that.
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Not months of silence, not a year of silence,
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years of silence, years of simply writing notes and now every eye in the room is on him.
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Would he freeze?
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Would the words get stuck again?
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He stood up.
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He opened his mouth and he said the poem.
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Every word without stuttering.
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He knocked it out of the park.
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Years later, he remembered that moment with two simple words.
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Nice surprise.
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But you see, that moment was only the beginning.
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Mr. Crouch kept working with him, helping oversee his progress as he slowly rebuilt his voice.
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And once he found his voice, he didn't want to stop using it.
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He wrote that he couldn't get enough of speaking, debating, and acting.
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The boy who had been silent for years became his high school valedictorian, the top student with the best grades.
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That same little boy would stop speaking from first grade to the first year of his high school.
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He was now the valedictorian.
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Then he went to the University of Michigan.
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He planned to study medicine, but he failed a pre -med exam.
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So he switched to drama.
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He served in the army.
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Then he moved to New York where he
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and his father waxed floors to pay the bills while he looked for acting jobs.
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And in 1958, he got his first role on Broadway.
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From there, his career lasted seven decades on stage and on screen.
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For an actor like him, no two days were the same.
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New roles, new stages, new characters.
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And one of those characters, you definitely know.
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The boy who once couldn't say a word to his classmates became the voice of Darth Vader.
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His name was James Earl Jones.
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The silent boy became the voice.
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I mean, a voice that even to me has been a part of my life.
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The voice that is one of the most recognizable in the world came from that silent boy.
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But here's the part of the story I love most.
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You see, James Earl Jones never said his stutter disappeared.
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He said he was still a stutterer.
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He just learned how to work around it.
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He compared it to a weak muscle.
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You exercise it and sometimes it becomes your strong muscle.
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James Earl Jones passed away in 2024 at 93 years old.
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Today, there's a Broadway theater with his name on it.
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So what does this mean for you, my friend?
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Maybe you've gone quiet in English.
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Maybe there's a voice in your head that says, don't speak.
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You'll get it wrong.
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Everyone will notice.
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Maybe other people have looked at you and already decided what you can and can't do.
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My friend, don't listen to those voices.
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James Earl Jones didn't wait until his stutter was gone.
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He stood up with the words he had and he spoke anyway.
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And then he kept going through the failed exam, through waxing floors, through every audition.
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Your English, my friend, doesn't have to be perfect for you to speak.
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You just have to keep moving forward.
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Your words are already inside you.
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Now it's time to stand up and say them out loud.
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I believe in you.
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You can do it.

이 레슨의 어휘와 말하기 포인트

이 B2 수준 말하기 레슨은 영상 “STOP Saying "My Name Is…" When Someone Asks About You in English”을(를) 바탕으로 합니다. 가장 자주 반복되는 단어는 다음과 같습니다: ring, response, word, English, detail. 이 영상에는 섀도잉할 문장 353개와 단어 3482개가 있습니다. 말하는 구간의 길이는 25:55입니다. 화자는 분당 약 134단어의 일정한 속도로 말해서 섀도잉하기에 편한 속도입니다. 단어의 89%가 영어에서 가장 많이 쓰이는 3,000단어에 속해 어휘가 쉬운 편입니다.

이 영상의 핵심 어휘

영상에서 가장 어려운 단어 15개를 발음, 뜻과 함께 정리했습니다.

단어발음뜻
fluency 명사/ˈfluːənsi/유창
stutter 명사/ˈstʌtɚ/더듬기
listener 명사/ˈlɪs(ə)nɚ/경청자, 청취자
idiom 명사/ˈɪdiəm/관용구, 숙어
classmate 명사/ˈklæs.meɪt/동급생, 급우
learner 명사/ˈlɜɹnəɹ/학습자
logistics 명사/ləˈd͡ʒɪstɪks/물류
wax 명사/waks/밀랍, 왁스
embarrass 동사/ɪmˈbæɹəs/난처하다, 창피 주다
grandparent 명사/ˈɡɹæn(d)pɛəɹənt/조부모
autobiography 명사/ˌɔː.tə.baɪˈɒɡ.ɹə.fi/자서전
audition 명사/ɑˈdɪʃən/오디션
vocabulary 명사/vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/어휘, 어휘력
handbook 명사/ˈhændˌbʊk/편람, 안내서
rebuild 동사/ɹiːˈbɪld/재건하다

영상에 나오는 구동사

단어발음뜻
stand up 동사일어서다
fill out 동사/fɪl ˈaʊt/기입하다
wrap up 동사시마이치다

따라 말해 볼 만한 문장

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

  • You see, here's what nobody tells you.
  • Can you tell me a little about yourself?
  • What is the person asking you?
  • This is what you're going to do.
  • You're inviting the listener in.

이 영상의 문법

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

문형영상 속 표현
수동태 be + 과거분사 — 누가 하는지보다 무슨 일이 일어나는지에 초점been asked · was stated · was said
현재완료 have/has + 과거분사 — 과거의 일이 지금도 관련이 있을 때have probably been asked · you've actually started · has been
관계절 who / which + 절 — 사람이나 사물에 대한 추가 정보kids who keep

주의할 발음

화자는 you're, I'm, didn't 같은 축약형과 약화된 형태를 53번 사용합니다. 들리는 대로 짧게 발음하세요.

  • “sh”와 “zh” 소리: shipment /ˈʃɪpmənt/, audition /ɑˈdɪʃən/
  • 긴 단어 — 강세 위치에 주의: valedictorian /ˌvæl.ə.dɪkˈtoɹ.i.ən/, autobiography /ˌɔː.tə.baɪˈɒɡ.ɹə.fi/, visually /ˈvɪzju.əli/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/

한국어 화자가 어려워하는 소리:

  • /f/ — ㅍ(/p/)으로 바꾸지 말고 윗니를 아랫입술에 대기: fluent /ˈfluənt/, fluency /ˈfluːənsi/, autobiography /ˌɔː.tə.baɪˈɒɡ.ɹə.fi/, freeze /ˈfɹiːz/
  • /v/ — ㅂ(/b/)과 구별하기: oversee /ˌəʊ.vəˈsiː/, valedictorian /ˌvæl.ə.dɪkˈtoɹ.i.ən/, visually /ˈvɪzju.əli/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/
  • /z/ — ㅈ이 아니라 성대를 울리는 /s/: visually /ˈvɪzju.əli/, freeze /ˈfɹiːz/

이 영상으로 연습하는 방법

  1. 먼저 말하지 않고 영상을 끝까지 듣고 모르는 단어를 적어 둡니다.
  2. 보통 속도로 한 문장씩 섀도잉하고, 화자의 리듬과 맞을 때까지 반복합니다.
  3. 자신의 목소리를 녹음해 원본과 비교하고, fluency, stutter, listener 같은 단어에 특히 주의합니다.

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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