쉐도잉 연습: The Setting That Gives You Back an Hour a Day - 영상으로 영어 말하기 배우기

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If you want to make the phone in and of itself less neurologically stimulating, what I would recommend is to actually turn your phone into grayscale mode.
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Everything about this device, the way that it looks, the way that it feels, all of it has been optimized to keep your eyes locked on the screen.
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Even the color saturation of the icons, the light that's emitted from the screen, all of it has been highly optimized to do that.
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So when you take your phone, the display settings, and you go into grayscale,
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phone will look immediately a little bit dead to you and you to do something called app cycling.
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When you go into grayscale, you are significantly less likely to actually go through an app cycle, and on average, you will spend one hour less on the device.

Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “The Setting That Gives You Back an Hour a Day”. This video has 6 sentences and 140 words to shadow. The speech runs for 0:40. The speaker talks fast, about 212 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds.

Key vocabulary in this video

The 14 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
icon noun/ˈaɪ.kɑn/An image, symbol, picture, portrait, or other representation, usually as an object of religious devotion.
stimulate verb/ˈstɪm.jəˌleɪt/To encourage into action.
grayscale adjective/ˈɡɹeɪˌskeɪl/Black and white, representing color with shades of gray.
optimize verb/ˈɑptɪmaɪz/To act optimistically or as an optimist.
emit verb/iˈmɪt/To send out or give off.
neurologically adverbIn a neurological manner.
saturation nounThe act of saturating or the process of being saturated.
device noun/dɪˈvaɪs/Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
cycle noun/ˈsaɪ.kəl/An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed.
display noun/dɪsˈpleɪ/A show or spectacle.
mode noun/moʊd/A particular means of accomplishing something.
recommend verb/ˌɹɛkəˈmɛnd/To bestow commendation on; to represent favorably; to suggest, endorse or encourage as an appropriate choice.
significantly adverb/sɪɡˈnɪfɪkəntli/In a significant manner or to a significant extent.
lock noun/lɑk/Something used for fastening, which can only be opened with a key or combination.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

WordMeaning
go through verbTo travel from one end of something to the other.

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 때has been optimized · has been
수동태 be + 과거분사 — 누가 하는지보다 무슨 일이 일어나는지에 초점has been optimized

How to practise with this video

  1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
  2. Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
  3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like icon, stimulate, grayscale.

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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