Shadowing Practice: "I Got Rich When I Understood This" | Jeff Bezos - Learn English Speaking with Video

I was working at a financial firm in New York City with a bunch of very smart people,

and I had a brilliant boss I much admired.

I went to my boss and told him I was going to start a company selling books on the internet.

He took me on a long walk in Central Park,

listened carefully to me, and finally said,

That sounds like a really good idea,

but it would be an even better idea for someone who didn't already have a good job.

You can have a job,

or you can have a career,

or you can have a calling.

And if you can somehow figure out how to have a calling,

you have hit the jackpot,

because that's the big deal.

I met Jeff Bezos 25 years ago,

and he told me, Dave,

I want you to invest in my company.

What are you doing?

a bookstore in my garage.

Okay, I'm going to put it online.

People buy online and I'm going to ship out of my garage.

But if you invest in me,

Dave, someday I'm going to be the richest man in the world.

I'll do over $100 billion.

First of all, there's no such thing as $100 billion 25 years ago.

Statistically, there's no such thing.

Countries didn't have our national debt wasn't $100 billion.

And this dude's telling me,

at 26 years old,

that he's going to be the richest man in the world because he has a garage and the internet? That was his truth.

No, but he did not know it, and neither did I.

But the difference between him and I is I was laughing,

scoffing, and jesting at him,

and he was already applauding himself,

going, at the right way,

at the perfect time, I'm going to make as much as I can as quickly,

and I'm sitting there going,

there's no way this is going to be a big business.

Do something you're very passionate about.

And don't try to chase what is kind of the hot passion of the day.

Seen in that light, it really was a difficult choice.

But ultimately, I decided I had to give it a shot.

I didn't think I'd regret trying and failing.

And I suspected I would always be haunted by a decision to not try at all.

After much consideration, I took the less safe path to follow my passion,

and I'm proud of that choice.

As a young boy, I had been a garage inventor.

I'd invented an automatic gate-closer out of cement-filled tires,

a solar cooker that didn't work very well out of an umbrella in aluminum foil,

baking pan alarms to entrap my siblings.

I'd always wanted to be an inventor and she wanted me to follow my passion.

There's a military phrase that I especially love and it says,

slow is smooth and smooth is fast.

And I have seen that in every endeavor I've ever been in.

That's the kind of thing that really allows you to make progress.

You know, you get certain gifts in life and you to take advantage of those.

But you, I guess my advice on adversity and success would be to be proud not of your gifts,

but of your hard work and your choices.

So you know, you may be,

the kinds of gifts you get,

you know, you might be really good at math,

might be really easy for you.

That's a kind of gift.

But practicing that math and taking it to the next step

that could be very challenging and hard and take a lot of sweat.

That's a choice.

You can't really be proud of your gifts because they were given to you.

You can be grateful for them and thankful for them,

but your choices, you choose to work hard,

you choose to do hard things.

Those are choices that you can be proud of.

You can choose.

We all get to choose our life stories and it's the choices that define us,

not our gifts.

Everybody in this room has many gifts.

I have many gifts.

You can never be proud of your gifts because they're gifts.

They were given to you.

You might be tall or you might be really good at math,

or you might be extremely beautiful or handsome,

or you know, there are many gifts,

and you can only be proud really of your choices,

because those are the things that you are acting on.

And one of the most important choices that each of us has,

and you know this just as well as I do,

is you can choose a life of ease and comfort,

or you can choose a life of service and adventure.

And when you're 80, which one of those things do you think you're going to be more proud of?

You're going to be more proud of having chosen a life of service and adventure.

There's never been a better time to be alive.

I mean, it's just incredible the amount of inspiration

that the world generates for me and I think for a lot of people.

It's just insane the amount of change and invention and opportunity.

Your life, the life you author from scratch on your own, begins.

How will you use your gifts?

What choices will you make?

Will inertia be your guide or will you follow your passions?

Will you follow dogma or will you be original?

Will you choose a life of ease or a life of service and adventure?

Will you wilt under criticism or will you follow your convictions?

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Will you bluff it out when you're wrong or will you apologize?

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Will you guard your heart against rejection or will you act when you fall in love?

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Will you play it safe or will you be a little bit swashbuckling?

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When it's tough, will you give up or will you be relentless?

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Will you be a cynic or will you be a builder?

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Will you be clever at the expense of others?

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Or will you be kind?

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Every time you figure out some way of providing tools and services that empower other people to deploy their creativity,

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you're really on to something.

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You know, you're very lucky if you have a career.

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A lot of people end up with a job.

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If you don't love your work,

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you're never going to be great at it.

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Jules Verne, Mark Twain, Galileo,

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Newton, all the curious from the ages would have wanted I wanted to be alive,

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most of all, right now.

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As a civilization, we will have so many gifts,

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just as you as individuals have so many individual gifts as you sit before me.

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How will you use these gifts?

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And will you take pride in your gifts or pride in your choices?

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Bu dersin kelimeleri ve konuşma notları

Bu B2 seviyesindeki konuşma dersi “"I Got Rich When I Understood This"” videosuna dayanıyor. En çok tekrarlanan kelimeler: gift, choice, proud, choose, follow. Bu videoda gölgeleme çalışması için 120 cümle ve 1139 kelime var. Konuşma bölümü 8:02 sürüyor. Konuşmacı dakikada yaklaşık 142 kelimelik dengeli bir hızla konuşuyor; gölgeleme için rahat bir tempo. Kelimelerin %82’i İngilizcede en sık kullanılan 3.000 kelime arasında; geri kalanına başlamadan önce bakmakta fayda var. 120 cümlenin 18 tanesi soru; soru tonlaması ve kısa cevaplar için iyi bir alıştırma.

Bu videodaki önemli kelimeler

Videodaki en ileri düzey 15 kelime, telaffuzu ve anlamıyla:

Kelime	Telaffuz	Anlam
mathematics isim	/mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/	matematik
inventor isim	/ɪnˈvɛntɚ/	mucit
applaud fiil	/əˈplɔd/	alkışlamak, el çırpmak
inertia isim	/ɪnˈɝ.ʃə/	eylemsizlik
jackpot isim	/ˈd͡ʒækpɒt/	ikramiye
invent fiil	/ɪnˈvɛnt/	icat etmek
bluff isim	/blʌf/	blöf
sibling isim	/ˈsɪb.lɪŋ/	kardeş
foil isim	/fɔɪl/	folyo
builder isim	/ˈbɪl.dəɹ/	yapı kurucu, inşaatçı
umbrella isim	/ʌmˈbɹɛl.ə/	güncek, şemsiye
bake fiil	/beɪk/	fırınlamak, fırında pişirmek
thankful sıfat	/ˈθæŋkfəl/	minnettar, müteşekkir
cement isim	/səˈmɛnt/	çimento
admire fiil	/ədˈmaɪɹ/	hayran olmak, bayılmak

Duyacağınız deyimsel fiiller

Kelime	Anlam
figure out fiil	açığa çıkarmak

Tekrar etmeye değer cümleler

Videodan, günlük konuşmada yeniden kullanabileceğiniz kısa ve tam cümleler:

How will you use your gifts?
What choices will you make?
Will you follow dogma or will you be original?
Will you bluff it out when you're wrong or will you apologize?
When it's tough, will you give up or will you be relentless?

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	be haunted · were given
Present perfect have/has + fiilin üçüncü hâli — geçmişte olan ama şimdi de önemli olan bir eylem	have hit · have seen

Dikkat edilecek telaffuzlar

Konuşmacı you're, I'm, didn't gibi kısaltılmış biçimleri 28 kez kullanıyor. Bunları duyduğunuz gibi kısa söyleyin.

“th” sesleri: mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, thankful /ˈθæŋkfəl/
“sh” ve “zh” sesleri: inertia /ɪnˈɝ.ʃə/, rejection /ɹɪˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/, civilization /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, invention /ɪnˈvɛnʃən/, passionate /ˈpæʃənɪt/
Uzun kelimeler — vurguyu doğru yere koyun: mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, adversity /ædˈvɜː.sɪ.ti/, statistically /stəˈtɪs.tɪ.kə.li/, creativity /kri.eɪˈtɪv.ᵻ.ti/, civilization /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/

Türkçe konuşanların zorlandığı sesler:

Kelime başındaki ünsüz kümesi — araya ünlü eklemeyin: bluff /blʌf/, statistically /stəˈtɪs.tɪ.kə.li/, newton /ˈn(j)uːtən/, creativity /kri.eɪˈtɪv.ᵻ.ti/, sweat /swɛt/
/æ/ — “e”den daha açık: mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, adversity /ædˈvɜː.sɪ.ti/, entrap /ɪnˈtɹæp/, jackpot /ˈd͡ʒækpɒt/, thankful /ˈθæŋkfəl/

Bu videoyla nasıl çalışılır

Videonun tamamını konuşmadan bir kez dinleyin ve bilmediğiniz kelimeleri not edin.
Normal hızda cümle cümle tekrar edin; ritminiz konuşmacıyla aynı olana kadar her cümleyi yineleyin.
Kendinizi kaydedin ve orijinaliyle karşılaştırın; mathematics, inventor, applaud 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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