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In the first chapter of the first book that
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Jane Austen ever published, Sense and Sensibility, she did something that changed fiction forever.
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The narrator of the book begins by describing the situation of the Dashwood family.
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John Dashwood has come into a big inheritance from his father,
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Henry, who on his deathbed makes John promise to take care of his three half -sisters.
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When he gave his promise to his father,
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he meditated within himself to increase the fortunes of his sisters by the present of a thousand pounds apiece.
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He then really thought himself equal to it.
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The prospect of four thousand a year made him feel capable of generosity.
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Yes, he would give them three thousand pounds.
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It would be liberal and handsome.
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It would be enough to make them completely easy.
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Three thousand pounds he could spare so considerable a sum with little inconvenience.
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He thought of it all day long and for many days successively and he did not repent.
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So what stands out in this passage?
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Which of these things is not like the rest?
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Well, it's this part here.
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Before this, the narrator is describing the thoughts and feelings of John Dashwood.
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But in the highlighted section, something changes.
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It's suddenly as if we're inside John's mind.
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And yet, the point of view doesn't change.
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We're still in the third person.
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Now, Austin could have reported John's thoughts directly here, writing, I will give them 3 ,000 pounds or I can spare so considerable a sum,
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but she doesn't.
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Instead, she does something new in English literature, what's called free indirect speech.
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Now, Austen isn't the first to use this technique, but she's the first author to do so consistently, the first to really explore its possibilities.
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And in the process, she effectively adds a new tool to the writer's toolbox. But why?
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What is free indirect style good for?
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Why not just use direct thought?
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Well, if you're familiar with Jane Austen, you know that all of her books have a really strong narratorial voice.
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The narrator has full control over the story, painting a universe of manners, making witty asides to the reader,
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and using irony to critique characters and social conventions.
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To accomplish her goals, Austen needed her narrator to have critical distance from the story,
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but this ironic distance has the potentially negative side effect of distancing the characters from the reader.
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I mean she still needs us to be emotionally involved with these people after all.
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Free indirect speech is Austen's intuitive and revolutionary solution for having it both ways.
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Okay, let's look at another Suttler example from Emma as the
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matchmaking title character thinks about the suitability of Mr. Elton for her friend Harriet Smith.
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The longer she considered it, the greater was her sense of its expediency.
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Mr. Elton's situation was most suitable, quite the gentleman himself and without low connections.
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He had a comfortable home for her and Emma imagined a very sufficient income, for though the vicarage of Highbury was not large,
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he was known to have some independent property, and she thought very highly of him as a good -humored, well -meaning, respectable young man.
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Like the first passage, this one begins firmly in the first -person narratorial voice with she considered and her sense.
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Then in the second sentence, it seamlessly switches to free indirect speech and were inside
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Emma's mind, which you can tell by phrasing like most suitable and quite the gentleman.
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After this, it starts to get tricky.
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Austin begins to weave in and out of free indirect speech within individual sentences.
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The narrator returns with phrases like
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Emma imagined and she thought.
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And as critic Daniel Gunn points out, this return and the distance it creates reminds us to be wary of Emma's judgments and imaginings.
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But then we slip right back into her spirit again, her subjectivity, subjectivity, in clauses like a good -humored, well -meaning, respectable young man.
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In Emma especially, Austin uses free indirect speech with extraordinary finesse,
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dipping in and out of several minds without ever interrupting the flow of narration.
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Representing subjectivities, as Dunn says, with great immediacy, while still providing a frame within which that subjectivity can be understood.
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At the end of the novel, we get the amazing convergence of these two voices, as Emma's self -deception becomes self -knowledge,
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as her inner voice finally aligns with what the narrator and the reader have seen all along.
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Free indirect speech is a formal innovation that changed the course of literature.
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Now, it's impossible to say who Austen influenced directly, but she effectively created a tool that thousands and thousands of authors used and still use,
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including some of the most famous ever, like George Eliot, Henry James, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf.
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Unlike these other authors, Jane Austen is often belittled for her seemingly lightweight marriage comedies,
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but that critique misses the complex formal dynamics that are working under the surface.
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If you really want to see Austen's genius, you have to look deeper.
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You have to look at the language.
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Лексика и советы по произношению к этому уроку
Этот урок разговорной практики построен на видео «How Jane Austen Changed Fiction Forever». Чаще всего повторяются слова: indirect, Austen, squarespace, narrator, thousand. В этом видео 74 предложений и 1007 слов для шедоуинга. Речь длится 5:45. Говорящий говорит в естественном темпе, около 175 слов в минуту, близком к повседневной речи. Только 80% слов входят в 3000 самых частых слов английского языка, поэтому лексика сложная.
Ключевая лексика этого видео
15 слов из видео, которые стоит выучить, с произношением и значением:
| Слово | Произношение | Значение |
|---|---|---|
| indirect прилагательное | /ˌɪn.daɪˈɹɛkt/ | ко́свенный, непрямо́й |
| narrator существительное | /ˈnæˌɹeɪ.təɹ/ | расска́зчик, расска́зчица |
| reader существительное | /ˈɹi.dɚ/ | чита́тель, чита́тельница |
| formal прилагательное | /ˈfɔɹməl/ | форма́льный |
| suitable прилагательное | [ˈsjuː.tə.bɫ̩] | подходя́щий, го́дный |
| phrase существительное | /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/ | фра́за, выраже́ние |
| spare прилагательное | /spɛɚ/ | ли́шний |
| passage существительное | /ˈpæsɪd͡ʒ/ | пасса́ж, отры́вок |
| considerable прилагательное | /kənˈsɪdəɹəbl̩/ | значи́тельный |
| gentleman существительное | /ˈd͡ʒɛn.təl.mən/ | господи́н, су́дарь |
| critique существительное | /kɹɪˈtiːk/ | кри́тика, реце́нзия |
| respectable прилагательное | [ɹɪˈspɛk.tə.bl̩] | уважа́емый, почте́нный |
| technique существительное | /tɛkˈniːk/ | те́хника |
| fiction существительное | /ˈfɪkʃən/ | худо́жественная литерату́ра, беллетри́стика |
| remind глагол | /ɹəˈmaɪnd/ | напомина́ть, напо́мнить |
Фразовые глаголы, которые вы услышите
| Слово | Значение |
|---|---|
| check out глагол | проверя́ть, прове́рить |
| point out глагол | ука́зывать, указа́ть |
Грамматика в этом видео
Конструкции, которые говорящий использует чаще всего, с точными словами из видео:
| Конструкция | В видео |
|---|---|
| Пассивный залог be + причастие прошедшего времени — важно, что происходит, а не кто это делает | be emotionally involved · was known · can be understood |
| Present Perfect have/has + причастие прошедшего времени — прошлое действие, важное сейчас | has come · have seen |
Произношение, на которое стоит обратить внимание
Говорящий использует 10 сокращённых и редуцированных форм, например you're, doesn't, we're. Произносите их коротко, так, как слышите.
- Звуки «sh» и «zh»: fiction /ˈfɪkʃən/, potentially /pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li/, innovation /ˌɪn.əˈveɪ.ʃən/, sufficient /səˈfɪʃənt/, revolutionary /ˌɹɛvəˈluʃənɛɹi/
- Длинные слова — следите за ударением: considerable /kənˈsɪdəɹəbl̩/, potentially /pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li/, extraordinary /ɪksˈtɹɔːrdɪn(ə)ɹi/, innovation /ˌɪn.əˈveɪ.ʃən/, consistently /kənˈsɪstəntli/
Звуки, трудные для русскоязычных:
- /w/ — губы округлены, это не /v/: lightweight /ˈlaɪt.weɪt/, wary /ˈwɛɚ.i/, witty /ˈwɪti/, weave /wiːv/
- /h/ — лёгкий выдох, а не русское «х»: handsome /ˈhæn.səm/, highlight /ˈhaɪˌlaɪt/, inheritance /ɪnˈhɛɹɪtəns/
- Звонкие согласные в конце слова — не оглушайте их: pound /ˈpaʊ̯nd/, phrase /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/, passage /ˈpæsɪd͡ʒ/, remind /ɹəˈmaɪnd/, engage /ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒ/
Как заниматься с этим видео
- Прослушайте всё видео один раз молча и выпишите незнакомые слова.
- Начните со скорости 0,75×, повторяйте предложение за предложением и вернитесь к обычной скорости, когда станет легко.
- Запишите себя и сравните с оригиналом, обращая внимание на такие слова, как indirect, narrator, reader.
Что такое техника Shadowing?
Shadowing — это научно обоснованная техника изучения языка, изначально разработанная для подготовки профессиональных переводчиков и популяризированная полиглотом доктором Александром Аргуэльесом. Метод прост, но эффективен: вы слушаете аудио на английском от носителей языка и немедленно повторяете вслух — как тень, следующая за говорящим с задержкой в 1–2 секунды. В отличие от пассивного прослушивания или грамматических упражнений, Shadowing заставляет мозг и мышцы рта одновременно обрабатывать и воспроизводить реальные речевые паттерны. Исследования показывают, что это значительно улучшает точность произношения, интонацию, ритм, связную речь, понимание на слух и беглость речи — что делает его одним из самых эффективных методов для подготовки к IELTS Speaking и реального общения на английском.