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Many people feel afraid when they think about other people's ideas.
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They worry about words, faces, and small actions.
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They ask, do they like me?
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Do they think I am good?
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Do they think I am strange?
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This fear is quiet, but it is strong.
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It can stay in the heart for a long time.
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When we are children, we want love.
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A baby looks at the mother and father.
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The baby smiles when they smile.
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The baby cries when they look angry.
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From a very young age, we learn that people's faces are important.
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A happy face means we are safe.
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An angry face means something is wrong.
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So we grow up and we watch faces.
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We listen to voices.
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We try to understand what people think about us.
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At school, this fear becomes bigger.
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A child stands in front of the class.
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The teacher asks a question.
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The child knows the answer, but the child feels afraid.
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What if I say the wrong thing?
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What if my friends laugh?
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The heart beats fast.
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The hands feel cold.
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Sometimes the child stays quiet.
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The child chooses silence because silence feels safe.
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In this moment, the fear of people's thoughts is stronger than the wish to speak.
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When we are teenagers, this fear can become very strong.
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Teenagers want friends.
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They want to be part of a group.
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They look at clothes, hair, shoes, and phones.
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They think, if I look different, people will not like me
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So they try to look the same
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They try to talk the same They hide parts of themselves
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They do not always show their real ideas They want to feel accepted They think acceptance means safety As adults,
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the fear does not disappear It changes shape At work, a person has a meeting The boss is in the room.
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The person has an idea, but again there is fear.
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What if my boss thinks I am not smart?
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What if my co-workers think my idea is bad?
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So the person stays quiet.
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Later, the person feels sad.
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The idea was good, but fear was stronger.
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On social media, this fear can grow very fast.
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A person takes a photo.
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Before they post it, they look at it many times.
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Do I look nice?
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Will people like this?
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After they post it, they check again and again.
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How many likes?
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How many comments?
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If there are many likes, they feel happy.
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If there are few likes, they feel bad.
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Their mood goes up and down because of other people's clicks.
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It is like giving a heart to strangers.
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But why do we care so much?
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One reason is that humans are not alone animals.
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We live in groups.
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Long ago, people lived in small groups in nature.
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If the group did not like you, you were alone.
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Alone in nature was dangerous.
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So our brain learned something simple.
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Stay with the group stay safe even now our brain still
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has this old idea it tells us be careful do not lose the group another reason is
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that we want to feel important we want to feel seen
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when someone says you did a good job we feel warm inside when someone says you are wrong we feel pain
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Words can feel like a gift or like a knife.
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Because words are powerful, we become careful.
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We try to avoid the knife.
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We try to find the gift.
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Sometimes we fear what people think because we fear rejection.
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Rejection means someone says, I do not choose you.
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This can happen in love, in friendship, or at work.
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When someone does not choose us, we may think, maybe I am not good.
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We may forget that one person's choice is not the truth about our value.
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But the heart does not always listen to logic.
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The heart feels pain first.
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There is also another reason.
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We often think people think about us all the time.
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But this is not true.
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Most people think about themselves.
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They think about their own problems, their own fears, their own dreams When you walk in the street and feel shy, you may think
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Everyone is looking at me
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But many people are busy with their own thoughts They are
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not looking at you They are thinking about their life When we fear what people think,
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we can change our behavior We may not wear the clothes we like We may not say the ideas we believe.
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We may not try new things.
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We build a small box around ourselves.
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Inside the box, we feel safe, but we also feel small.
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We cannot grow in a small box.
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Growth needs space and courage.
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Imagine a young woman who loves to paint.
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She wants to share her art online, but she thinks, what if people say it is ugly?
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So she keeps her paintings in her room.
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Years pass.
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She becomes better and better, but no one sees her work.
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One day, she decides to share one painting.
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Some people like it.
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Some people do not.
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But something changes.
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She feels free.
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She understands that different opinions are normal.
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Not everyone will love her art, and that is okay.
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Fear of people's thoughts can also stop love.
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A man likes a woman.
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He wants to talk to her.
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But he thinks, what if she says no?
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So he says nothing.
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Days pass.
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Weeks pass.
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The chance is gone.
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Later, he feels regret.
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Regret can be stronger than fear.
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At least when we try, we know the answer.
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When we do not try, we always ask, what if?
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So how can we live with this fear?
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First, we can accept that it is normal.
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Almost everyone feels it.
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You are not strange if you worry about people's opinions.
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Second, we can ask, whose opinion is really important?
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Is it everyone's opinion or only the opinion of kind and honest people?
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Not all voices are equal.
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Some people do not know you.
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Some people do not care about you.
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Why give them so much power?
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We can also learn to listen to our own voice.
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Inside you, there is a quiet voice.
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It says what you like, what you believe, what you want.
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This voice is sometimes soft because outside voices are loud.
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But if you stay quiet and listen, you can hear it.
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When you follow your own voice, you feel strong.
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Even if someone does not agree, you still stand.
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It is also helpful to make small, brave actions.
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You do not need to change your life in one day.
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You can start small.
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Share one idea in a meeting.
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Wear one piece of clothing you love.
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Say hello to someone new.
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After each small action, you will see that the world does not end.
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Maybe someone will not like it, but many times nothing bad happens.
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Your brain slowly learns that fear is not always truth.
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We should remember that people's opinions change.
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Today someone may not like you.
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Tomorrow they may respect you.
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Today someone may laugh at your dream.
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Tomorrow they may ask you how you did it.
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If you change your life for every opinion, you will feel tired.
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You will move left and right all the time.
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But if you choose your own direction, you can walk straight.
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There is a big difference between listening and fearing.
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Listening means you are open.
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You hear feedback.
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You think about it.
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If it is useful, you use it.
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If it is not useful, you let it go.
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Fearing means you feel small.
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You think every word is a big truth.
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You forget your own value.
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Listening makes you grow.
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Fearing makes you hide.
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When we stop living only for other people's thoughts, something beautiful happens.
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We feel lighter.
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We laugh more.
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We try more things.
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We accept mistakes.
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We understand that mistakes are part of being human.
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No one is perfect.
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Even the people we admire make mistakes.
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But they continue.
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They do not stop because of every opinion.
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Think about your life now?
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How many choices do you make because you truly want them?
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And how many choices do you make because you are afraid of what people will say?
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This question is simple, but the answer can change your life.
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If you choose only to please everyone, you may lose yourself.
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But if you choose to be honest with yourself, you may lose some approval, yet you will find peace.
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In the end, people will always think something.
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You cannot control their minds.
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You cannot close their mouths.
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But you can control your steps.
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You can choose to walk, even when nobody claps.
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You can choose to speak, even when your voice shakes.
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You can choose to live your life, not a life made from fear.
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Why do we fear what people think?
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Because we want love, safety, and acceptance.
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Because we are human, but we can learn something new.
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We can learn that our value is not a number of likes, not one comment, not one rejection.
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Our value is inside us.
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When we understand this, fear becomes smaller.
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It may not disappear, but it does not control us.
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And when fear does not control us, we become free.
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We become real.
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We become ourselves.

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

단어발음뜻
rejection 명사/ɹɪˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/거절
silence 명사/ˈsaɪ̯ləns/침묵
knife 명사/ˈnaɪ̯f/칼, 나이프
regret 동사/ɹɪˈɡɹɛt/후회하다
disappear 동사/dɪsəˈpɪɹ/사라지다
teenager 명사/ˈtiːnˌeɪ̯d͡ʒə/틴에이저, 십대
cloth 명사/klɒθ/천
clothing 명사/ˈkloʊðɪŋ/옷, 의상
mood 명사/muːd/기분
worker 명사/ˈwɝ.kɚ/노동자, 로동자
ugly 형용사/ˈʌɡli/추악하다, 못생기다
friendship 명사/ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/우정, 우의
brave 형용사/bɹeɪv/용감하다
shake 동사/ˈʃeɪk/흔들리다
courage 명사/ˈkʌ.ɹɪd͡ʒ/용기

영상에 나오는 구동사

단어뜻
go up 동사올라가다

따라 말해 볼 만한 문장

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

  • They ask, do they like me?
  • Do they think I am good?
  • Do they think I am strange?
  • What if I say the wrong thing?
  • What if my friends laugh?

이 영상의 문법

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

문형영상 속 표현
조건문 if + 절, will/would + 동사 — 조건과 그 결과if I look different, people will not
“might / may” 가능성 might/may + 동사 — 가능하지만 확실하지 않은 일may think · may forget · may not wear
비교급 -er than / more … than — 두 대상을 비교stronger than
“will” 미래 will + 동사 — 결정, 약속 또는 예측will not like · Will people · will love

주의할 발음

  • “th” 소리: cloth /klɒθ/, clothing /ˈkloʊðɪŋ/
  • “sh”와 “zh” 소리: rejection /ɹɪˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/, friendship /ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/, shake /ˈʃeɪk/, shoe /ˈʃu/

한국어 화자가 어려워하는 소리:

  • /f/ — ㅍ(/p/)으로 바꾸지 말고 윗니를 아랫입술에 대기: knife /ˈnaɪ̯f/, helpful /ˈhɛlp.fl̩/, friendship /ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/, feedback /ˈfiːdˌbæk/

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, rejection, silence, knife 같은 단어에 특히 주의합니다.

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