ฝึกพูดภาษาอังกฤษด้วยเทคนิค Shadowing จากวิดีโอ: Your Parents Were Just People Too

กำลังสร้างบทเรียน...
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I read this today and I think it's such a cool realization.
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As you grow older, you begin to see that your parents were just people trying their best with what they knew.
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Forgive them.
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they were living for the first time too.
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It's so interesting as you grow up and you realize that it's tough out here.
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Like, life is stressful.
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Trying to make money is hard.
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Trying to figure out what to do with your life is hard.
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and to realize that our parents were going through that as well, and they were sacrificing for us.
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To me, it just really makes me appreciate them
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and also to realize that they were just kids trying to figure it out just like we are.
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And so it just makes me appreciate everything that our parents did for us.
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And to cut them some slack, because they're humans too.
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and it's hard out here.
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So I'm curious what you think about this.
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I hope you have a great day.

Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “Your Parents Were Just People Too”. This video has 16 sentences and 169 words to shadow. The speech runs for 0:53. The speaker talks fast, about 192 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 93% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.

Key vocabulary in this video

The 11 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
curious adjective/ˈkjʊɹ.i.əs/Tending to ask questions, or to want to explore or investigate; inquisitive; (with a negative connotation) nosy, prying.
sacrifice noun/ˈsæk.ɹɪ.faɪs/Originally, the killing (and often burning) of a human being or an animal as an offering to a deity; later, also the offering of an object to a deity.
forgive verb/fɚˈɡɪv/To pardon (someone); to waive any negative feeling towards or desire for punishment or retribution against.
stressful adjective/ˈstɹɛsfəl/Irritating; causing stress.
realization noun/ˌɹɪə.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/An act of figuring out or becoming aware.
slack adjective/slæk/Lax; not tense; not firmly extended.
realize verb/ˈɹi(.ə)ˌlaɪz/To become aware of, understand, or appreciate (a fact or situation, especially something which has been true for some time).
grow verb/ˈɡɹəʊ/To become larger, to increase in magnitude.
appreciate verb/əˈpɹiː.ʃi.eɪt/To be grateful or thankful for.
begin verb/bɪˈɡɪn/To start, to initiate or take the first step into something.
tough adjective/tʌf/Of a material, strong and resilient; sturdy.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

WordMeaning
figure out verbTo come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.
go through verbTo travel from one end of something to the other.
grow up verbTo mature and become an adult.

ไวยากรณ์ในวิดีโอนี้

โครงสร้างที่ผู้พูดใช้บ่อยที่สุด พร้อมคำพูดจริงจากวิดีโอ:

โครงสร้างในวิดีโอ
Past continuous was/were + -ing — การกระทำที่กำลังดำเนินอยู่ ณ ช่วงหนึ่งในอดีตwere living · were going
ขั้นสุด the -est / the most … — มากที่สุดหรือน้อยที่สุดในกลุ่มtheir best

Pronunciation to watch

  • The “sh” and “zh” sounds: realization /ˌɹɪə.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, appreciate /əˈpɹiː.ʃi.eɪt/
  • Long words — get the stress right: realization /ˌɹɪə.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, appreciate /əˈpɹiː.ʃi.eɪt/

How to practise with this video

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

เทคนิค Shadowing คืออะไร?

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

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