Shadowing Practice: “就算全世界都否定你，你也要相信你自己”【赛琳娜励志演讲】中英大字幕优质英语口语素材 Selena Gomez Motivational Speech - Learn English Speaking with Video

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I'm here to just tell you my path so

that you hopefully can take something away from it because I don't like being honest with,

this is the truth, I don't like being honest with press and interviews, I like being honest with you directly,

which is each and every one of you.

because I feel like I can and I'm just going to start with the basics.

So I'm 21.

My mom had me when she was 16 and I'm from Grand Prairie,

Texas and she worked four jobs and completely dedicated her life into making mine better.

So to me, she is the definition of a strong woman.

And I love her so much because she's taught me those values so much.

Thank you.

I have been acting my entire life and I have known since I was first on Barney,

you know, that purple dinosaur that I hung out with?

He's great.

You guys are so motivating.

I feel like I can say anything.

When I was 11, the point being is When I was seven, I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to live my dream.

And when I was 11, I had a casting director tell me that I wasn't strong enough to carry my own show.

And I'm sure all of you have been told

that you don't have what it takes and

that you may not be good enough and you don't have enough people supporting you, and you're being told all of these things,

when deep down, it's all you want to do.

You want to be a part of something great.

You want to make something great.

and it does more than knock the wind out of you it crushes you

when people try to tell you that you're not good enough

and it almost did for me

but there was my mom next to me stronger than ever

and she said the most important thing is to always trust in myself

if I have if I'm doing something

because I love it I should do it because I love it

and I believe I can do it so she told me to keep Keep going.

Thank you.

She told me and she taught me to turn the other cheek

and let the critics be critics and let us just trust ourselves.

So for me, two years later, I got my own show and the first thought wasn't,

oh man, that girl when I was 11 said I wouldn't carry my own show

and i did i mean i thought about that for a little bit

but i thought about what my mom said my mom was like you have to trust yourself

and i realized if i didn't believe

that i could do it i wouldn't be able to be here

and i have i'm gonna i'm gonna say i live a very blessed life i have

so much to be thankful for

and a lot of you are a big part of inspiring me

because i don't think you get it and maybe you're not told enough

but you inspire me to be better and we should inspire each other to be better

I'm surrounded by people who are supposed to guide me

and some of them have and others haven't they pressure me there's so much pressure you gotta be sexy,

you gotta be cute, you gotta be nice, you gotta be all these things.

And I'm sure you can all relate.

You all have pressure that you have to deal with every day.

I'm sure with school, with work, with friends, with parents, with family, with parents, I know sometimes with mine.

They tell me what to wear, how to look, what I should say, how I should be.

Until recently, I had given in to that pressure.

I lost sight of who I was.

I listened to opinions of people, and I tried to change who I am because I thought that others would accept me for it.

And I realized I don't know how to be anything but myself.

And all I really want you to know is that you are changing the world.

I'm not changing the world.

You're changing the world.

And that's amazing.

Please, please just be kind to each other and love and inspire people because let's do it.

Let's do it.

Let's change the game.

The most important thing is that we learn and we continue to learn from each other.

Please stay true to yourself.

Please just remain who you are and know that we have each other's back.

All of us have each other's back.

I'd be lying if I said that I've never tried to make myself better by giving in, because I have.

But I've learned from my actions.

And for all the things I've done, I'm proudest of that.

I've learned from my mistakes.

I want you to know that I know what it's like like figuring out what types of friends you have,

you are who you surround yourself with.

So I just wanna say,

I hope I can inspire each and every one of you to just trust yourselves and to love and to be loved.

And thank you for allowing me to come up and ramble

and talk to you guys because this is such a beautiful thing you're doing.

Be proud of yourselves.

This is great.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video ““就算全世界都否定你，你也要相信你自己”【赛琳娜励志演讲】中英大字幕优质英语口语素材 Selena Gomez Motivational Speech”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: inspire, pressure, mom, trust. This video has 82 sentences and 915 words to shadow. The speech runs for 6:00. The speaker talks at a natural 153 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 86% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
inspire verb	/ɪnˈspaɪə(ɹ)/	To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural influence; to disclose preternaturally; to produce in, as by…
critic noun	/ˈkɹɪt.ɪk/	A person who appraises the works of others.
yourselves	/jəˈsɛlvz/	You (plural), used to intensify the subject as the group addressed.
surround verb	/səˈɹaʊnd/	To encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions.
actress noun	/ˈæk.tɹɪs/	A female who performs on the stage or in films.
sexy adjective	/ˈsɛksi/	Having sex appeal; attractive.
knock verb	/nɑk/	To rap one's knuckles against something, especially wood.
purple noun	/ˈpɝ.pl̩/	A colour between red and blue; violet, though often closer to magenta.
relate verb	/ɹɪˈleɪt/	To tell in a descriptive way.
bless verb	/blɛs/	To make something holy by religious rite, sanctify.
crush verb	/kɹʌʃ/	To press between two hard objects; to squeeze so as to alter the natural shape or integrity, or to force together into a mass.
cheek noun	/t͡ʃiːk/	The soft skin on each side of the face, below the eyes; the outer surface of the sides of the oral cavity.
thankful adjective	/ˈθæŋkfəl/	Showing appreciation or gratitude.
dinosaur noun	/ˈdaɪnəsoɹ/	Those animals of the clade Dinosauria that existed during the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and are now extinct.
motivate verb	/ˈmoʊ.tɪ.veɪt/	To provide someone with an incentive to do something; to encourage; to actuate.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
check out verb	To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.).
come up verb	To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly.
figure out verb	To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

I'm not changing the world.
All of us have each other's back.
I've learned from my mistakes.

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	have known · have been told · I've never tried
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	have been told · being told · be loved
Advice with “should” should + verb — saying what is a good idea	should do · should inspire · should say
Superlatives the -est / the most … — the top or bottom of a group	the most important

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 42 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, you're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

How to practise with this video

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

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