ฝึกพูดภาษาอังกฤษด้วยเทคนิค Shadowing จากวิดีโอ: The Weeknd - The Hills

กำลังสร้างบทเรียน...
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You're a man on the road, he doing promo You said keep our business on the low, low
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I'm just trying to get you out the friend zone Cause you look even better than the photos
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I can't find your house,
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send me the info Driving through the gated residential Find out I was coming,
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sent your friends home Keep on trying to hide it,
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but your friends know I only call you when it's half bad But the only time that I be back,
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yo Son, I only love it when you touch me Not feel me
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when I'm fucked up That's a real me when I'm fucked up That's a real me, yeah I only call you when it's half black
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But the only time I'd ever call you mine I only love it when you touch me, not feel me When I'm fucked up,
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that's a real me When I'm fucked up,
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that's a real me, baby I'ma let you know and keep it simple Tryna keep it up,
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don't seem so simple
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I just fucked two bitches before I saw you And you don't have to do it at my temple
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Always trying to send me off to rehab
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Drugs started feeling like it's decaf I'm just trying to live life for the moment And all these motherfuckers wanna realize
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I only call you when it's hot Half past,
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by the only time that I be by your side I only love it when you touch me, not feel me When I'm fucked up,
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that's a real me When I'm fucked up, that's a real me, yeah I only call you
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when it's half past By the only time I ever call you mine I only love it when you touch me,
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not feel me When I'm fucked up, that's a real me When I've done the best real me,
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baby Heels at once, the heels at once Who are you to judge?
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Who are you to judge?
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Hide your lies, hide your lies
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I only caught you when it's half past By the only time
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that I've been by your side I only love it
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when you touch me Not feel me
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when I'm fucked up That's the real me when I'm fucked up That's the real me, yeah I only caught you when it's half past Fight me,
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only time I'd ever call you I'd only love you when you touch me, not feel me When I'm fucked up,
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that's a real me When I'm fucked up, that's a real me, babe What the fuck, what the fuck

Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “The Weeknd - The Hills”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: fucked, touch, hide. This video has 29 sentences and 434 words to shadow. The speech runs for 3:32. The speaker talks at a steady 123 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 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:

WordPronunciationMeaning
heel noun/hil/The rear part of the foot, where it joins the leg.
gate noun/ˈɡeɪ̯t/A doorlike structure outside a house.
temple noun/ˈtɛm.pl̩/A house of worship dedicated to a polytheistic faith.
residential adjective/ˌrɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl/Of or pertaining to a place of personal residence or to a location for such places.
babe noun/beɪb/A baby or infant; a very young human or animal.
promo noun/ˈpɹəʊməʊ/A reduction in consumer cost for a limited time for items or services rendered; a special.
rehab noun/ˈɹiːhæb/Rehabilitation, especially to treat the use of recreational drugs.
decaf noun/ˈdiːkæf/A decaffeinated coffee, tea, or soft drink.
info noun/ˈɪnfoʊ/information.
touch verb/tʌt͡ʃ/To make physical contact with; to bring the hand, finger or other part of the body into contact with.
judge verb/d͡ʒʌd͡ʒ/To sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on (a person or matter).
catch verb/kæt͡ʃ/To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape).
lie verb/laɪ̯/To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
photo verb/ˈfəʊ̯.təʊ̯/To take a photograph of.
drug noun/ˈdɹʌɡ/A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

WordMeaning
find out verbTo discover, as by asking or investigating.

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 23 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, I'd, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

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 heel, gate, temple.

เทคนิค Shadowing คืออะไร?

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

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