쉐도잉 연습: The Art of Slowing Down - 영상으로 영어 말하기 배우기

레슨 만드는 중...
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They say it's not enough to be busy.
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Question is, what are we busy about?
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That is something I've been considering quite a lot recently.
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The past few months have taught me a lot about slowing down.
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Not like I really had a choice, but still.
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On some days, I feel overwhelmed, thinking I'm not doing enough, and at the same time, feeling like everyone else is doing so much more.
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But is it worth doing other things if it means doing more, even if it's not really what you want to be doing?
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I wrote that question down and now I don't know if it makes sense.
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Well, hopefully you get what I mean.
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Anyway, the other day I thought it was finally time to do some things I've been putting off for a while.
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I have so many photos piling up and something needed to be done about it.
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My mom always made albums, so I figured I should start making them too.
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I came across some pictures from four years ago.
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It was the first time I ever traveled alone halfway across the world.
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And it's funny because I felt like I needed to get away from everything to figure everything out.
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I remember going there for as long as I possibly could.
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It was the first time I was just with myself and no one else.
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It was lonely, some days.
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That's weird because I think I'd be a totally different person if I didn't do that.
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I think I spent a lot of my young adult life looking for answers and a life outside myself.
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Always chasing, always wanting more.
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Only a couple of years later to find out that the real peace is being content in the everyday stuff.
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And that the small things that happen every day matter more than the big things that happen every once in a while.
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So much has changed since then.
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But in a way I feel like I'm there again.
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Taking it day by day, observing what things actually matter to me and where I would like to go from here.
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When you're an artist, a photographer, a filmmaker,
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everything we make feels like it has to be amazing to the point where we almost get afraid to make mistakes.
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And we lose that sense that sense of play that we had in the beginning.
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But I think I found some freedom in slowing down.
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I want to be able to remember the everyday trivial things, you know?
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Not pursuing anything grand, but just living through the small moments that I know I'll eventually miss over time.
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There's a quote from C.S.
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Lewis, It's funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.
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I guess it's a good reminder that we don't always have to stick with what we know, and We have the choice to change things if we're not happy with it.
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If we did it before, then we'll survive if we do it again.
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I guess what I'm trying to say is, all we can do is give ourselves the time we need.
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The break we need.
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From people, from work, to figure things out.
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Maybe to remind ourselves what really matters. Who matters.
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Maybe just to slow down, because we're going a thousand miles an hour and don't really know where anymore.

이 레슨의 어휘와 말하기 포인트

이 영상에는 섀도잉할 문장 41개와 단어 566개가 있습니다. 말하는 구간의 길이는 4:24입니다. 화자는 분당 약 129단어의 일정한 속도로 말해서 섀도잉하기에 편한 속도입니다. 단어의 87%가 영어에서 가장 많이 쓰이는 3,000단어에 속해 어휘가 쉬운 편입니다.

이 영상의 핵심 어휘

영상에 나오는 익혀 둘 만한 단어 9개를 발음, 뜻과 함께 정리했습니다.

단어발음뜻
chase 동사/t͡ʃeɪs/쫓다
remind 동사/ɹəˈmaɪnd/생각나게 하다, 상기(想起)시키다
photographer 명사/fəˈtɑ.ɡɹə.fɚ/사진사, 사진가
pursue 동사/pɚˈsu/뒤쫓다
lonely 형용사/ˈloʊnli/외롭다, 고독하다
pile 명사/paɪl/무더기
observe 동사/əbˈzɜːv/관찰하다
trivial 형용사/ˈtɹɪv.i.əl/사소하다
overwhelm 동사/ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/압도하다

영상에 나오는 구동사

단어뜻
look back 동사돌아보다

이 영상의 문법

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

문형영상 속 표현
현재완료진행 have/has been + -ing — 전에 시작해 지금도 계속되는 동작I've been considering · I've been putting
현재완료 have/has + 과거분사 — 과거의 일이 지금도 관련이 있을 때have taught · has changed

주의할 발음

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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, chase, remind, photographer 같은 단어에 특히 주의합니다.

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