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I always feel really stupid just doing these kind of shots.
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Everyone says living abroad is hard, and it is.
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The bureaucracy, the language gaps, the cultural misfires, ordering four cheese pizzas when you're meant to order one four cheese pizza, you're far from family.
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And making friends as an adult is awkward.
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I moved out at 18, not abroad, but as far from home as I could get.
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Newcastle upon time was my first outpost.
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Then came Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, back to Germany.
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And in between, I lived out of a suitcase in Prague, Dakar, Maputo, New York, Sydney,
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Montreux, Washington, La Paz, everywhere and nowhere.
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And after all that, here's what I've learned.
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There's something about living abroad that no one really tells you.
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You won't read it in travel blogs or visa forums, you only find out by doing it, by living through it, by feeling foreign.
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So today I am in Maastricht.
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I used to call this place home.
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I've come back to visit a friend who is defending his thesis, which is exciting.
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It's always strange being back somewhere isn't it?
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It's like, well even though I know these streets really well and I lived here for five years,
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I basically feel foreign and this isn't a new feeling for me.
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I've lived outside of the UK for almost 20 years.
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I have felt foreign I guess for most of my life at this point.
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But there's something really interesting about feeling foreign
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because yeah sure you have this weird feeling of sadness
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and dislocation but there's also a really really surprising set of benefits that I don't think people talk about enough.
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So look I spent most of my life feeling foreign, feeling like an outsider.
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It's part of my, I guess it's part of my character.
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It's just who I am.
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I've always been like this.
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I've always felt like an outsider and I've always chosen the path,
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I guess, of most friction and that's involved moving abroad quite a lot of the time.
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But all the stuff that I talked about earlier, that stuff starts to, well, it starts to take its toll.
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It starts to grind you down after a while.
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So I keep asking myself the question, why do I do it?
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And it It turns out that, well, after 20 years, it basically has a bunch of really surprising benefits.
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Feeling foreign isn't just vibes, if I'm not too old to use that word.
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Sure, there's friction and there's difficulties, but there's some scientific things behind the sense of feeling foreign
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that enable you to go on and do things that you couldn't otherwise do.
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And I believe if you harness it in the right way, I think it's a kind of gift.
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Psychologists say living abroad can trigger three deep shifts in how we think and feel.
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The first is self -concept clarity.
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Basically, how clearly and confidently you understand who you are.
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When you move abroad, that all gets shaken.
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Language, routines, cultural cues, they all fall away and suddenly you're asking, who am I without all of that?
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You kind of lose your autopilot, but that loss forces you to get intentional.
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I had to decide consciously how to live, relate and respond to the world around me.
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And over time, that made me more resilient.
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I think I made better decisions.
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I think I've built more authentic relationships and I've definitely stopped chasing approval, says the guy with the YouTube channel who responds to every comment.
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But crucially, that clarity doesn't vanish.
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It's helped me in career shifts.
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It's helped me in parenting, in creativity, I think basically any time the ground moves,
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I have self -concept clarity to help me understand who I am.
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The second shift is called cultural frame switching, which is basically changing how you think and behave depending on the cultural context.
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And you see a lot in bilingual people, for instance, and I felt it a bit.
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I'm more direct in German, say.
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I'm more reserved in Dutch and I'm annoyingly polite in English.
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Different parts of me show up depending on where I am.
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It's demanding, but it's kind of powerful in a way.
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It's a bit of a superpower.
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You get better at reading the room and seeing things from different angles.
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And at times, yeah, I mean, it makes you feel in between.
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You're sort of fluent everywhere, but at home nowhere.
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But it also makes you adaptive and flexible.
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And if you use it consciously, it is a strength.
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The third concept is somewhat harder to pin down.
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It's called emotional and existential displacement.
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And it's the feeling that you no longer fully belong anywhere, not to a place or even to your past self.
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I've felt homesick for instance for versions of me that I've outgrown.
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I'm kind of caught between identities, not sure where I fit.
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But over time I've realised that in between space is where something new can form.
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A third identity if you will, like built but not inherited.
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It's uncomfortable but it's honest.
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You're no longer living someone else's story, you're writing your own.
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Living a boat that you can leave is a bit more time.
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Feeling fun and uproar your receiving license, the way of seeing the world, and the fact.
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The fortune of you still is the truth.
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The suspicion of you being a bit mature, that's how you just get feeling.
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Also, it's such a very nice feeling, and it's such a great feeling.
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You're all ready of it when you feel a little tired, feeling a little bit more.
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Bu dersin kelimeleri ve konuşma notları

Bu konuşma dersi “How living abroad rewires your brain” videosuna dayanıyor. En çok tekrarlanan kelimeler: feeling, foreign, abroad, cultural, felt. Bu videoda gölgeleme çalışması için 79 cümle ve 944 kelime var. Konuşma bölümü 5:55 sürüyor. Konuşmacı dakikada yaklaşık 160 kelimeyle, günlük konuşmaya yakın doğal bir hızda konuşuyor. Kelimelerin %82’i İngilizcede en sık kullanılan 3.000 kelime arasında; geri kalanına başlamadan önce bakmakta fayda var.

Bu videodaki önemli kelimeler

Videodan öğrenmeye değer 15 kelime, telaffuzu ve anlamıyla:

KelimeTelaffuzAnlam
abroad zarf/əˈbɹɔːd/dışarı
pizza isim/ˈpi.tsə/pizza
friction isim/ˈfɹɪkʃən/sürtünme
outsider isim/ˌaʊtˈsaɪdəɹ/dışlanan, hariç tutulan
defend fiil/dɪˈfɪnd/savunmak, korumak
gap isim/ɡæp/ara
chase fiil/t͡ʃeɪs/kovalamak, peşinden koşmak
angle isim/ˈæŋ.ɡəl/açı
forum isim/ˈfɔːɹəm/divan, müzakere yeri
difficulty isim/ˈdɪfɪkəlti/zorluk
awkward sıfat/ˈɔk.wɚd/sakar, beceriksiz
mature sıfat/məˈt͡ʃʊ(ə)ɹ/olgun, yetişkin
trigger isim/ˈtɹɪɡɚ/[4, 5] tetikleme, tetik
uncomfortable sıfat/ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/rahatsız
flexible sıfat/ˈflɛk.sɪ.bəl/esnek, bükülgen

Duyacağınız deyimsel fiiller

KelimeAnlam
find out fiilanlamak, ortaya çıkarmak
show up fiilortaya çıkmak

Tekrar etmeye değer cümleler

Videodan, günlük konuşmada yeniden kullanabileceğiniz kısa ve tam cümleler:

  • It's always strange being back somewhere isn't it?
  • It's just who I am.
  • I've always been like this.
  • It's helped me in career shifts.
  • You're sort of fluent everywhere, but at home nowhere.

Bu videodaki dil bilgisi

Konuşmacının en çok kullandığı yapılar, videodaki sözcüklerin aynısıyla:

YapıVideoda
Present perfect have/has + fiilin üçüncü hâli — geçmişte olan ama şimdi de önemli olan bir eylemI've learned · I've come · I've lived
İlgi cümlecikleri who / which + cümle — bir kişi ya da şey hakkında ek bilgifriend who is · switching, which is

Dikkat edilecek telaffuzlar

Konuşmacı I've, you're, I'm gibi kısaltılmış biçimleri 30 kez kullanıyor. Bunları duyduğunuz gibi kısa söyleyin.

  • “th” sesleri: thesis /ˈθisɪs/, authentic /ɔˈθɛn.tɪk/
  • “sh” ve “zh” sesleri: friction /ˈfɹɪkʃən/, shake /ˈʃeɪk/, suspicion /səˈspɪʃ.ən/, intentional /ɪnˈtɛnʃənəl/, crucially /ˈkɹuːʃəli/
  • Uzun kelimeler — vurguyu doğru yere koyun: difficulty /ˈdɪfɪkəlti/, uncomfortable /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/, creativity /kri.eɪˈtɪv.ᵻ.ti/, psychologist /ˌsaɪˈkɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/, intentional /ɪnˈtɛnʃənəl/

Türkçe konuşanların zorlandığı sesler:

  • /w/ — dudaklar yuvarlak, /v/ değil: nowhere /ˈnoʊ.(h)wɛɹ/, awkward /ˈɔk.wɚd/, bilingual /baɪˈlɪŋ.ɡwəl/
  • Kelime başındaki ünsüz kümesi — araya ünlü eklemeyin: clarity /ˈklæɹ.ɪ.ti/, friction /ˈfɹɪkʃən/, trigger /ˈtɹɪɡɚ/, flexible /ˈflɛk.sɪ.bəl/, creativity /kri.eɪˈtɪv.ᵻ.ti/
  • /æ/ — “e”den daha açık: clarity /ˈklæɹ.ɪ.ti/, gap /ɡæp/, angle /ˈæŋ.ɡəl/, sadness /ˈsædnəs/, adaptive /əˈdæp.tɪv/

Bu videoyla nasıl çalışılır

  1. Videonun tamamını konuşmadan bir kez dinleyin ve bilmediğiniz kelimeleri not edin.
  2. 0,75× hızla başlayın, cümle cümle tekrar edin ve kolaylaşınca normal hıza dönün.
  3. Kendinizi kaydedin ve orijinaliyle karşılaştırın; abroad, pizza, friction gibi kelimelere özellikle dikkat edin.

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.

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