ฝึกพูดภาษาอังกฤษด้วยเทคนิค Shadowing จากวิดีโอ: A living wage includes tips | Kim's Convenience

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You have to give me the number of your window washer.
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Yeah, he's very good and a very good price.
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Your windows will be the death of many a bird.
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All done, Mr. Kim.
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Great job.
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You not have trouble with window bar?
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No. Rigged up a special squeegee just for you.
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Good.
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Good.
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See, what I did was, take an old squeegee, then epoxied it to a ball joint on a pole.
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That way I could really get in there, you know?
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Okay, see you.
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Okay.
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You know, he was waiting for a tip.
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Why a tip?
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You said he did a great job.
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Yeah, that's why I pay.
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He wants more money, he charge more.
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That's not how society works.
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Take my restaurant, for example.
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I pay my waiters an unlivable wage.
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It's unlivable, but they get their tips, and somehow they survive.
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That's a problem nowadays.
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Everybody wants a tip.
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Taxi driver wants a tip.
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Pizza delivery wants a tip.
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What's next?
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Astronaut wants a tip?
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You know they drink their own urine.
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Keep the change.
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Okay, thank you.
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What?
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My boss pay me on reasonable wages too? And so it begins.

Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This video has 33 sentences and 195 words to shadow. The speech runs for 1:20. The speaker talks at a steady 147 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 83% 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

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

WordPronunciationMeaning
wage noun/weɪd͡ʒ/An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually calculated on an hourly basis and expressed in an amount of money per hour.
pizza noun/ˈpi.tsə/A baked Italian dish of a thinly rolled bread crust typically topped before baking with tomato sauce, cheese, and other ingredients such as meat or vegetables.
pole noun/pəʊl/Either of the two points on the earth's surface around which it rotates; also, similar points on any other rotating object.
taxi noun/ˈtæksi/A vehicle that may be hired for single journeys by members of the public, particularly one with an automated meter to calculate the fare.
nowadays adverb/ˈnaʊ.ə.deɪz/At the present time; in the current era.
urine noun/ˈjʊɹɪn/Liquid waste consisting of water, salts, and urea, which is made in the kidneys, stored in the bladder, then released through the urethra.
waiter noun/ˈweɪ̯təː/A male or female attendant who serves customers at their tables in a restaurant, café or similar.
astronaut noun/ˈæstɹəˌnɔt/A member of the crew of a spaceship or other spacecraft that travels beyond Earth's atmosphere, or someone trained to serve that purpose.
squeegee noun/ˈskwiˌd͡ʒi/A tool for scraping consisting of a blade of rubber or some other material attached at a right angle to a handle.
unlivable adjectiveThat cannot be lived.
epoxy adjective/ɪˈpɑk.si/Derived from an epoxide.
washer noun/ˈwɒʃə(ɹ)/Something that washes; especially an appliance such as a washing machine or dishwasher.

How to practise with this video

  1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
  2. Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
  3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like wage, pizza, pole.

เทคนิค Shadowing คืออะไร?

Shadowing เป็นเทคนิคการเรียนรู้ภาษาที่ได้รับการรับรองทางวิทยาศาสตร์ พัฒนาขึ้นสำหรับการฝึกนักแปลมืออาชีพ วิธีการนี้เรียบง่ายแต่ทรงพลัง: คุณฟังเสียงภาษาอังกฤษจากเจ้าของภาษาและพูดตามทันที — เหมือนเงาที่ตามผู้พูดด้วยช่วงเวลาห่าง 1-2 วินาที การวิจัยแสดงว่าเทคนิคนี้ปรับปรุงความแม่นยำในการออกเสียง ทำนองเสียง จังหวะ การเชื่อมเสียง การฟังเข้าใจ และความคล่องแคล่วในการพูดได้อย่างมีนัยสำคัญ

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