Shadowing Practice: How To Go From Average To Fortune - Learn English Speaking with Video

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How to go from average to fortune.
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There's five simple steps.
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You might like to make a note of them.
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Here's the first one.
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Get serious.
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You don't have to be grim, but you must be serious.
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I know a guy that's got a half a dozen jokes keeping him from becoming wealthy.
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He's not known as rich.
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He's known as a joker, which I guess is okay if that's the kind of life you want to live.
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But it really isn't the best way to live.
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To go from average to fortune, you must get serious.
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And you must get serious about two very important things.
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Number one is setting your goals and where you want to go.
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Designing the next five, the next ten years is so vitally important.
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Then you have to get serious about another important subject.
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And that important subject is called personal development.
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Personal development is striving hard to become the kind of person that you want to be.
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Ten years from now, you will surely become someone.
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The big question is, who?

Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “How To Go From Average To Fortune”. This video has 19 sentences and 179 words to shadow. The speech runs for 0:54. The speaker talks fast, about 199 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 90% 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 10 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
fortune noun/ˈfɔːtjuːn/Destiny, especially favorable.
wealthy adjective/ˈwɛl.θi/Possessing financial wealth; rich.
joker noun/ˈd͡ʒoʊkɚ/A person who makes jokes.
strive verb/ˈstɹaɪv/To try to achieve a result; to make strenuous effort; to try earnestly and persistently.
grim adjective/ɡɹɪm/Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.
vitally adverb/ˈvaɪ.tə.li/In a manner that imparts vitality
joke noun/ˈd͡ʒoʊ̯k/An amusing story.
surely adverb/ˈʃʊɹli/Without fail.
subject noun/ˈsʌb.d͡ʒɛkt/The noun, pronoun or noun phrase about whom the statement is made. In active clauses with verbs denoting an action, the subject is the actor. In clauses in the…
rich adjective/ˈɹɪt͡ʃ/Wealthy: having a lot of money and possessions.

Bu videodaki dil bilgisi

Konuşmacının en çok kullandığı yapılar, videodaki sözcüklerin aynısıyla:

YapıVideoda
Edilgen yapı be + fiilin üçüncü hâli — kimin yaptığı değil, ne olduğu önemliis called
“might / may” ile olasılık might/may + fiil — mümkün ama kesin olmayan bir şeymight like
En üstünlük the -est / the most … — bir grubun en üstü ya da en altıthe best
Zorunluluk: must / have to / need to bir şeyin gerekli olduğunu söylemekhave to be · must get · have to get

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 fortune, wealthy, joker.

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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