Shadowing Practice: Having fun will make you more successful - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact,
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and that is everything around you that you call life Was made up by people that were no smarter than you
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Everyone wants to be taken seriously And that
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Is exactly what's holding them back every decision you make about
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how you present yourself What you say what you don't say what you try
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and what you don't try somewhere underneath all of it is the same question Will this make me look stupid?
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And the answer to that question controls more of your life than you'd probably like to admit.
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And yet the people who actually win, consistently, unreasonably, in ways that don't make sense to everyone doing everything right, they all share one thing.
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They stopped caring about that question a long time ago.
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There's a word for this person.
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The fool.
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Not as an insult.
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As an archetype.
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The character who shows up in every culture, every era, every medium, always underestimated.
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Always the last one anyone expects to win.
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And in real life, every few decades someone shows up who embodies this so completely that it changes everything around them.
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When you were a kid, you didn't think about how to have fun.
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You just had it.
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You picked up a stick and it was a sword.
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You played for hours and lost track of time completely because time wasn't a concept that applied to you yet.
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You were just in it.
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At some point that changed.
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It happens gradually, the way all the important things happen.
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You start caring about how you look doing something.
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You start calculating whether it's worth the effort.
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And before you know it, you've organized your life around avoiding the feeling of not knowing what you're doing.
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Adults watch kids play and say things like, Oh man, I remember those days.
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Let them enjoy it while they can.
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As if play has an expiry date.
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As if presence is something that belongs to childhood and has to be surrendered at some point in exchange for seriousness.
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It doesn't.
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You just forgot how.
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I drove down from a Holland Drive every night that I went up there
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feeling that I was one of the biggest actors in Hollywood.
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And I actually wrote myself a check.
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And this is for real.
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This is not a joke.
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I wrote myself a check for $10 million for acting services rendered
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and I gave myself five years and I dated it Thanksgiving 1995.
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At the time he had essentially nothing.
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He was a struggling comedian who people found funny but not quite serious enough to take seriously.
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I was always into this visualization and stuff.
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This is when you were broke and poor.
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Right, having directors interested in me and saying, you know, I like your work or whatever that is
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and I would visualize things coming to me that I wanted or whatever.
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The thing about Jim Carrey is that he was never doing what actors were supposed to do.
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He was playing.
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His whole career was built on a willingness to look completely ridiculous, to commit to a bit so fully that it stopped being a bit and became something else.
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To do the thing nobody was sure he should do, and do it with such total conviction that it worked.
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I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.
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So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out okay.
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It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back, it was one of the best decisions I ever made.
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And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.
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Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.
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Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.
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I learned about serif and sans-serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great.
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It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture.
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And I found it fascinating.
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None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life.
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But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me.
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And we designed it all into the Mac.
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It was the first computer with beautiful typography.
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You couldn't have planned that.
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Nobody could have planned that.
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It only happened because he was playing, following his interest without requiring it to make sense first, without demanding that it justify itself before he gave it his time.
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When he introduced the iPhone in 2007, he was in his element, bouncing across the stage, pulling the device out of his pocket like a magic trick.
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Using the word magical more than seemed professional, he was having fun.
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He was playing, and the audience felt it, and the world changed.
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Kanye West released his first album in 2004 after being told repeatedly that rappers who produce beats don't also rap.
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That wasn't how it worked.
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The lanes were separate.
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He ignored this and made the college drop out anyway, which went five times platinum and changed what hip hop sounded like for the next decade.
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Then he made Late Registration, then Graduation, then 808s and Heartbreak, where he processed grief through autotune in a way
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that almost everyone said was a terrible idea and that influenced basically every artist who came after him.
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I always felt like I could do anything.
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That's the main thing people are controlled by.
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Their perception of themselves.
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They're slowed down by their perception of themselves.
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If you're taught you can't do anything, you won't do anything.
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I was taught I could do everything.
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My mom always taught me you have to believe it first.
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You have to believe it first.
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So what's when I had to believe that I could make it instigating first.
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That was one of the first things.
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And I believed it and I willed it.
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And they say overconfident, like that's a bad thing.
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I think overconfident, maybe that needs to be a bad word.
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How could you be overconfident?
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You should be overconfident.
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You should have had no power.
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The through line in all of it is that Kanye treats making music like play.
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He follows whatever interests him, regardless of whether it makes sense from the outside.
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He commits to ideas that seem wrong until they seem obvious.
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He talks about himself with an enthusiasm that makes people uncomfortable.
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Because most people have learned to shrink their confidence to a size that won't offend anyone, and Kanye never learned that, or decided not to.
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The fact that I'm willing to fail is an inspiration.
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People are so scared to lose that they don't even try.
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Like, one thing that people can't say is they can't say, I'm not trying.
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We're all gonna die one day.
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Live like that.
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Live like you could die tomorrow.
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You know, go for it.
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Monkey D.
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Luffy is the captain of a pirate crew who can barely read a map, has no real plan for how to become King of the Pirates,
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and regularly wanders into situations that should get him killed.
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His crew is constantly terrified.
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His enemies consistently underestimate him, and he wins because he's playing while everyone else is working, because he moves toward things with a kind of pure,
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unfiltered enthusiasm that doesn't leave room for hesitation, because he decided what he wanted, declared it out loud without worrying whether it sounded stupid,
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and started moving toward it immediately.
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Jack Sparrow wins by being impossible to model.
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Every villain, every rival, every person trying to outmaneuver him runs into the same problem.
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He doesn't behave according to the logic they're using.
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He's spinning, stumbling, making decisions that look like accidents and turn out to be genius,
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or actually are accidents and work out anyway because he's so committed to the bit that reality bends around him.
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He treats the whole thing like a game, which means he's free to improvise while everyone else is executing a plan.
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And improvisation, it turns out, is how you win when reality stops cooperating with the plan.
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Alright enough pirates.
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Peter Parker is the most relatable superhero ever written, because he has no idea what he's doing most of the time, and does it anyway.
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Miles Morales spends the entire first movie terrified.
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Can't stick to walls properly.
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Can't control his powers.
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And then there's that scene where he's standing at the edge of a building, and someone tells him to leap and trust it.
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And he just goes.
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He jumps before he's ready.
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Figures it out on the way down.
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Watch any of them closely enough, and you notice the same thing.
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Time stops mattering.
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Everything around them sharpens.
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Athletes call it being in the zone.
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Musicians say the music starts playing itself.
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You get there by playing, by loosening your grip on the outcome and just doing the thing.
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The fool is already doing it while you're still deciding whether to start.
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Already three reps in.
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Already figuring out what works by finding out what doesn't.
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That's the actual advantage.
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The number one advantage the fool has is the one that sounds like a weakness.
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Not being afraid to look like a fool.
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This sounds simple.
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It isn't.
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Most of what adults do on any given day is organized around not looking stupid.
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The version of yourself you present to the world edited down to the parts you're confident about, with the uncertain parts kept private until you've figured them out.
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This is completely understandable.
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It's also the thing that keeps most people from ever finding out what they're actually capable of.
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The only way to get good at something is to be bad at it first, publicly, where people can see you.
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The only way to find your voice is to say things before you've found it.
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The person who's afraid to look foolish has to defend every decision they make.
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So they keep doing the wrong thing longer than they should.
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They optimize for appearing competent over actually being effective.
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And they fall behind the fool, who already pivoted three times and is somewhere completely different now.
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Playing in a new space, figuring it out in real time.
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This is what Fool Maxing actually is.
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The full commitment to presence, to play, to action without the paralysis of self-consciousness.
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The willingness to step toward the edge.
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The Fool always wins because the Fool is the only one actually playing.
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Bu dersin kelimeleri ve konuşma notları
Bu videoda gölgeleme çalışması için 154 cümle ve 1806 kelime var. Konuşma bölümü 10:17 sürüyor. Konuşmacı dakikada yaklaşık 176 kelimeyle, günlük konuşmaya yakın doğal bir hızda konuşuyor. Kelimelerin %85’i İngilizcede en sık kullanılan 3.000 kelime arasında; geri kalanına başlamadan önce bakmakta fayda var.
Bu videodaki önemli kelimeler
Videodan daha az kullanılan 15 kelime, telaffuzu ve anlamıyla:
- pirate /ˈpaɪɹət/ (isim) — korsan. A criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns.
- consistently /kənˈsɪstəntli/ (zarf) — devamlı, aralıksız. In a consistent manner.
- enthusiasm /ɪnˈθuziæzəm/ (isim) — heves, şevk. An intensity of feeling; an excited interest or eagerness.
- willingness /ˈwɪlɪŋnəs/ (isim) — gönüllülük. The state of being willing
- underestimate /ʌndɚˈɛs.tɪ.meɪt/ (fiil) — azımsamak, hafife almak. To estimate too low; to perceive (someone or something) as having a lower value, quantity, worth, etc., than what he/she/it actually has.
- ignore /ɪɡˈnɔː/ (fiil) — görmezden gelmek. To deliberately not listen or pay attention to.
- pocket /ˈpɑ.kɪt/ (isim) — cep, yancık. A bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items.
- trick /ˈtɹɪk/ (isim) — hile, numara. Something designed to fool, dupe, outsmart, mislead or swindle.
- defend /dɪˈfɪnd/ (fiil) — savunmak, korumak. To ward off attacks against (something or someone).
- element /ˈɛləmənt/ (isim) — öğe, eleman. One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.
- ridiculous /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/ (sıfat) — saçma, komik. Deserving of ridicule; foolish, absurd.
- capture /ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/ (fiil) — ele geçirmek. To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem.
- inspiration /ˌɪn.spɪˈɹeɪ.ʃən/ (isim) — ilham. The drawing of air into the lungs, accomplished in mammals by elevation of the chest walls and flattening of the diaphragm, as part of the act of breathing.
- discover /dɪˈskʌvə/ (fiil) — keşfetmek. To find or learn something for the first time.
- spin /spɪn/ (fiil) — dolanmak, dönmek. To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction.
Duyacağınız deyimsel fiiller
- find out (fiil) — anlamak, ortaya çıkarmak. To discover, as by asking or investigating.
- figure out (fiil) — açığa çıkarmak. To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.
- show up (fiil) — ortaya çıkmak. To appear, arrive, or attend, especially suddenly or erratically.
- slow down (fiil) — yavaşlamak. To decelerate.
Dikkat edilecek telaffuzlar
Konuşmacı can't, don't, doesn't gibi kısaltılmış biçimleri 38 kez kullanıyor. Bunları duyduğunuz gibi kısa söyleyin.
- “th” sesleri: enthusiasm /ɪnˈθuziæzəm/, athlete /ˈæθ.liːt/, underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/
- “sh” ve “zh” sesleri: perception /pɚˈsɛpʃ(ə)n/, capture /ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, inspiration /ˌɪn.spɪˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, conviction /kənˈvɪkʃən/
- Uzun kelimeler — vurguyu doğru yere koyun: consistently /kənˈsɪstəntli/, enthusiasm /ɪnˈθuziæzəm/, underestimate /ʌndɚˈɛs.tɪ.meɪt/, ridiculous /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/
Bu videoyla nasıl çalışılır
- Videonun tamamını konuşmadan bir kez dinleyin ve bilmediğiniz kelimeleri not edin.
- 0,75× hızla başlayın, cümle cümle tekrar edin ve kolaylaşınca normal hıza dönün.
- Kendinizi kaydedin ve orijinaliyle karşılaştırın; pirate, consistently, enthusiasm gibi kelimelere özellikle dikkat edin.
Bu videodaki dil bilgisi
Konuşmacının en çok kullandığı yapılar, videodaki sözcüklerin aynısıyla:
| Yapı | Videoda |
|---|---|
| Edilgen yapı be + fiilin üçüncü hâli — kimin yaptığı değil, ne olduğu önemli | Was made · be taken · be surrendered |
| Present perfect have/has + fiilin üçüncü hâli — geçmişte olan ama şimdi de önemli olan bir eylem | you've organized · have learned · you've figured |
| İlgi cümlecikleri who / which + cümle — bir kişi ya da şey hakkında ek bilgi | people who actually · game, which means |
Gölgeleme Tekniği Nedir?
Gölgeleme, başlangıçta profesyonel tercüman eğitimi için geliştirilen ve çok dilli Dr. Alexander Arguelles tarafından popüler hale getirilen, bilim destekli bir dil öğrenme tekniğidir. Yöntem basit ama güçlüdür: ana dili İngilizce olan bir sesi dinler ve hemen yüksek sesle tekrar edersiniz — konuşmacıyı 1-2 saniye gecikmeyle takip eden bir gölge gibi. Pasif dinleme veya dilbilgisi alıştırmalarının aksine, gölgeleme beyninizi ve ağız kaslarınızı gerçek konuşma kalıplarını eşzamanlı olarak işlemeye ve yeniden üretmeye zorlar. Araştırmalar, telaffuz doğruluğu, tonlama, ritim, bağlı konuşma, dinleme anlama ve konuşma akıcılığını önemli ölçüde geliştirdiğini göstermektedir — bu da onu IELTS Konuşma hazırlığı ve gerçek dünya İngilizce iletişimi için en etkili yöntemlerden biri yapar.