쉐도잉 연습: Why are weddings so damn expensive? - 영상으로 영어 말하기 배우기
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<<Phone ringing"Hello?" I'm, uh, planning a wedding for next spring." "a quick quote for a venue for a family gathering" "between 120 and 130 guests." "for 125 people" "we're aiming for April 16th" "the 16th" "That's going to be a $15,000 food and beverage minimum" "The food and beverage minimum is $17,000." This 2000 dollar difference is what's known as the "wedding mark-up" where some venders charge a higher price for weddings than for other similar parties so why are weddings so expensive?
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The wedding website "The Knot"surveyed thousands of its members and found that the average cost of their weddings was thirty-one thousand dollars last year that's not including honeymoon wedding dresses average at thirteen hundred dollars and catering comes in its $68 dollars per person. And those numbers are a lot higher if you live in places like New York Chicago DC or San Francisco the wedding industry is kinda weird and it's an industry that I have quite a bit of experience in my way Isabel and I run a wedding videography business in Washington DC and here's my take on my way to so expensive There's this economic concept called asymmetric information. With most things you buy you have a pretty good gauge in what you're getting for what you pay for.
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you pretty sure that an 8 dollar avocado is way too much because you've bought avocados before. Familiarity with a market produces balanced information between buyers and sellers and so they can settle on a fair price This is like economics 101.
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but most people shopping for wedding stuff and very little if any experience with what they're buying.
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cake, dress, napkins, catering, venues, flowers.
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This is something you just don't buy very often so you have a very good gauge on what should be paying.
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This is made a lot harder by the fact that we wedding vendors have a hard time posting our prices. You usually have to reach out and inquire to get any sort of pricing information.
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Imagine if you had asked for pricing for every item in the grocery store. Shopping would be a lot harder. When I first was starting my business I read on a blogs about marketing to prospective clients.
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And overwhelming message that I kept reading is "steer away from talking about price" Blogger: "we've put together a free report that shows you how to answer "price question" with those email leads in a way that steers them away from price quickly so you can get them on the phone or to a meeting where you can book them!" And then there's Pinterest. Planning: "Pinterest can be really useful I think using it as a starting point" It's an amazing tool for wedding inspiration or if you have an experience wedding planner by your side, but usually doesn't help with the price question.
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"...and you see all these like amazing dresses and you can click on it to like get more information.
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you're going to get a lot more pictures , but you're not gonna find any pricing information. And of course there's always the option to "repin" it if you'd liked. If you are like a normal person with a budget like you're setting yourself up to be let down. Another thing that makes wedding so expensive is the once in a lifetime mentality.
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The classic line for brides shopping for a wedding dress is: Designer: "It's the dress of your life , and if there's ever one picture will have of you, it's the one in your wedding dress wedding dress." That's wedding dress designer and artist talking on Planet Money. I'm as guilty as anyone at this: Here's were very first ads. it's all about that once in a lifetime feel.
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It's just really hard not to splurge when you put so much weight into one day.
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So, it's easy to look at this and think there's no doubt that wedding vendors are ripping off their clients.
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But there's another side to the story that i think is important to mention.
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Planner: "Corporate flowers for example all there's probably going to be direction but maybe there's a little bit more flexibility where as a bride had dreamt up a certain flowers and she in want to talk to the florist multiple times about the bouquet and the ribbon treatment and the fact that her grandmother's broaches gonna be on that Bouquet.
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It's a lot of time and energy spent on those flowers and that's gonna be reflected in the price." The upshot of this is that the emotional weight of weddings usually means more work for vendors, and thus higher prices. And the most demanding clients are the ones that set the prices for everyone. So the best thing you can do to avoid being swindled is to demand the price range before hearing a sales pitch.
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we vendors might hate it but it's the fair thing to do.
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이 레슨의 어휘와 말하기 포인트
이 B2 수준 말하기 레슨은 영상 “Why are weddings so damn expensive?”을(를) 바탕으로 합니다. 가장 자주 반복되는 단어는 다음과 같습니다: wedding, price, dress, dollar, vendors. 이 영상에는 섀도잉할 문장 18개와 단어 820개가 있습니다. 말하는 구간의 길이는 4:30입니다. 화자는 분당 약 182단어로 빠르게 말하므로 연음과 약하게 발음되는 소리가 많습니다. 단어의 84%가 영어에서 가장 많이 쓰이는 3,000단어에 속합니다. 나머지는 연습 전에 미리 확인해 두세요.
이 영상의 핵심 어휘
영상에서 가장 어려운 단어 15개를 발음, 뜻과 함께 정리했습니다.
| 단어 | 발음 | 뜻 |
|---|---|---|
| vendor 명사 | /ˈvɛn.dɚ/ | 판매인, 판매자 |
| avocado 명사 | /ˌɑvəˈkɑdoʊ/ | 아보카도 |
| bouquet 명사 | /buːˈkeɪ/ | 꽃다발, 부케 |
| planner 명사 | /ˈplænɚ/ | 설계자, 계획자 |
| catering 명사 | /ˈkeɪ.tɚ.ɪŋ/ | 케이터링 |
| beverage 명사 | /ˈbɛv(ə)ɹɪd͡ʒ/ | 음료, 음료수 |
| bride 명사 | /bɹaɪd/ | 신부 |
| florist 명사 | /ˈflɒɹɪst/ | 꽃집 |
| napkin 명사 | /ˈnæpˌkɪn/ | 냅킨 |
| overwhelm 동사 | /ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/ | 압도하다 |
| honeymoon 명사 | /ˈhʌn.iˌmuːn/ | 밀월, 신혼 |
| mentality 명사 | /mɛnˈtæləti/ | 심리 |
| ribbon 명사 | /ˈɹɪbən/ | 리본 |
| seller 명사 | /ˈsɛlɚ/ | 판매인, 판매자 |
| flexibility 명사 | /ˌflɛksɪˈbɪlɪti/ | 유연성 |
영상에 나오는 구동사
| 단어 | 뜻 |
|---|---|
| put together 동사 | 조립하다 |
| rip off 동사 | 바가지 씌우다 |
이 영상의 문법
화자가 가장 많이 쓰는 문형을 영상 속 실제 표현과 함께 정리했습니다.
| 문형 | 영상 속 표현 |
|---|---|
| 조건문 if + 절, will/would + 동사 — 조건과 그 결과 | if there's ever one picture will have |
| 수동태 be + 과거분사 — 누가 하는지보다 무슨 일이 일어나는지에 초점 | is made · be let · be reflected |
| 현재완료 have/has + 과거분사 — 과거의 일이 지금도 관련이 있을 때 | you've bought · we've put |
주의할 발음
화자는 you're, gonna, I'm 같은 축약형과 약화된 형태를 17번 사용합니다. 들리는 대로 짧게 발음하세요.
- 긴 단어 — 강세 위치에 주의: avocado /ˌɑvəˈkɑdoʊ/, asymmetric /ˌeɪ.səˈmɛt.ɹɪk/, mentality /mɛnˈtæləti/, flexibility /ˌflɛksɪˈbɪlɪti/
한국어 화자가 어려워하는 소리:
- /f/ — ㅍ(/p/)으로 바꾸지 말고 윗니를 아랫입술에 대기: florist /ˈflɒɹɪst/, flexibility /ˌflɛksɪˈbɪlɪti/
- /v/ — ㅂ(/b/)과 구별하기: vendor /ˈvɛn.dɚ/, avocado /ˌɑvəˈkɑdoʊ/, beverage /ˈbɛv(ə)ɹɪd͡ʒ/, overwhelm /ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/, prospective /pɹəˈspɛktɪv/
이 영상으로 연습하는 방법
- 먼저 말하지 않고 영상을 끝까지 듣고 모르는 단어를 적어 둡니다.
- 0.75배속으로 한 문장씩 섀도잉을 시작하고, 익숙해지면 보통 속도로 돌아갑니다.
- 자신의 목소리를 녹음해 원본과 비교하고, vendor, avocado, bouquet 같은 단어에 특히 주의합니다.
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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.