Shadowing Practice: Leaving America Changed the Way I See Everything - Learn English Speaking with Video

America does a very good job of making survival mode look normal.

And it's one of the things that I, for the first time in my entire life, over the past few months, I have realized that I am finally,

for once, not living in survival mode.

After living in the United States my entire life, and then leaving for the first time with my family, and we've been out of the U .S.

for two years now.

And I did not even realize

that I was living in this constant state of just survival and what that actually does to your overall well -being,

your ability to even think into the future and make plans

and the shift that we have had since leaving has been profound and is something that

even if we ever do go back to the United States, like I think that we have finally broken free of that

and is something that I can look back on and just I didn't even know, I did not know that I was living in such a state of survival

and what effect that has on your entire life.

How dysregulated my nervous system was just from constantly being worried about finances.

You know, what it does when you're afraid

that you won't be able to go to the doctor and get treated for any sort of health problems.

Not only in the U .S are there financial struggles, but there's also this overall just culture of hustle to the point

that it makes it really difficult to feel like you can even relax.

There's really no free time available to really figure out what it is you want to do with your life

or who you want to be or who you are

because there's always that constant pressure of I need to try

and get ahead when I am doing good because what if you never know what's going to happen in the future.

And when you've constantly had those what ifs happen and you've lived the result of those,

it's just this state of literal survival.

Leaving the U .S wasn't the only way I think that I could have gotten out of it.

It just gave me a completely different perspective.

And it's not like other countries are perfect or they have it all figured out.

It's just being able to zoom out and step outside of that culture, the hustle culture part aspect of the US,

the blame, if you are, you know, having a hard time financially, there is a lot of blame, not only from other Americans,

but from the rest of the world.

I hear that a lot in the comment section here is if you live in the United States, you have all the opportunities in the world,

and you should be able to get out of negative financial situations or,

you know, there's all these opportunities available to you.

One of the reasons why we are able to travel is

because of the income that we make in the U .S and how,

for now at least, like the U .S dollar does go a lot further in a lot of other countries.

And yes, that has made life much easier.

And that is an opportunity that we have been provided because we are Americans.

So I'm not lost on that aspect of it.

Using that opportunity that we had to leave and go somewhere else where we could reset our lives,

where we didn't have to be so stressed out and we could get out of survival mode, has made all the difference in the world.

Over these last few months, we've been able to relax

and truly relax to the point where we've been able to really think about our future

and to do some things that we were never able to do

or we didn't feel like was the best use of our time

while in the U .S some things like my husband is

going back to school instead of constantly working to improve our life.

It is an investment, but a lot of times when you're poor

and you're struggling just every day to keep up with the day -to -day task, you can't invest in yourself.

It makes it really hard.

Who has the time?

That's a lot of time that you're taking away from other things.

I've always wanted to write homeschool curriculum and write and develop things that I know that

right now are not going to make me money.

It's something I have to work on and build up.

And I have the opportunity now to be able to spend my time doing things

that in the long run might make me money, but are not making me money right now.

It's important to acknowledge that it is in fact very hard to be poor in the U .S.

and that there are some real struggles and just changing your mindset isn't going to make everything better.

There are some real barriers there.

Absolutely, you have control of your life and you can make changes.

For us, one of those changes was to figure out a way to leave

and get out of that situation and do something extreme, like leave, you know, where our money goes further.

And it might mean some extreme changes.

But one thing that anybody can do across the board is to realize

that there is a deep culture there in the U .S

that makes it really hard to escape the system of being poor,

being in poverty, struggling, living in

that survival mode it's really hard to get out of it

and if you were someone who has never lived

that struggle of not knowing where your next meal is going to come from

or being afraid

that you're not even going to be able to pay for gas to get to work

and then your whole world will just slowly fall apart it is a fact

that things are harder in that situation

if you miss a payment you have late fees

that you have to pay being in a position to maybe have to go

and get a payday loan to just to pay your electricity bill so your electricity doesn't get shut off.

And if you have never lived that,

then it is important to have empathy and understand the experiences that somebody else is going through.

Because I lived that life in the U .S.

I left and almost instantly I became,

I went from being poor in the U .S to being at least very comfortable in other countries.

And flipping that switch overnight has made me realize that

people who are wealthy and don't have those same struggles quite literally have never experienced those things

or probably have never experienced those things and do not understand.

If you are somebody who lives in a country and you've always had access to health care,

you've never had that fear of not being able to be treated when you're sick,

to have to sit at home and worry and get sicker

and sicker and sicker because you cannot afford to go to the doctor or the constant fear of,

you know, what if something happened and you cannot take care of your health.

If you are in a country that has access to decent quality public transportation, not to understand that people in the U .S.

mostly do not have access to public transportation.

They have to own a vehicle in order to get groceries, to get to work, to do all of these things.

And the rural areas in the U .S

that are less expensive to live in are miles and miles and miles away from your necessities, from their jobs.

Like poor people have to live further away from work.

They can't live in the cities where the jobs are because housing is unaffordable.

So they have to commute to work, but they don't have access to buses and trains and all of these things that other countries have.

They have to own a vehicle and it has to function.

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They have to pay for gas.

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And when these gas prices go up, they're the ones who are driving further just to get to work, just to meet their basic needs.

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They don't have the option of just taking affordable public transportation.

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Leaving has honestly made me more passionate about the struggles

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that even we experienced in the U .S and

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that other people are experiencing because I know that it doesn't have to be that way.

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I know that if people were able to get out of that survival mode,

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that they would have the time to pursue things that would be meaningful to them.

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And they would improve even their work that they're doing.

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It's not that they would become lazy or, or whatever.

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It was just, they would get out of that hamster wheel of constant just you know survival.

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And I also recognize that that's not the goal because when people are trapped in that hamster wheel of surviving,

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they will work harder.

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They will spend more money as a consumer because they're unhappy, because they're afraid, because they're trying to keep up.

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If more people would get out of this survival mindset

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and see things from a different perspective and zoom out and see what is possible,

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then things would change dramatically.

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And so that's one reason why it's become

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so important to me to discuss all of these issues within the U .S is

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because I know that they can change and they don't have to be that way.

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And they're that way on purpose,

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intentionally there's no need for them to change from a financial aspect from an economic aspect

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Bu dersin kelimeleri ve konuşma notları

Bu B2 seviyesindeki konuşma dersi “Leaving America Changed the Way I See Everything” videosuna dayanıyor. Bu videoda gölgeleme çalışması için 121 cümle ve 1643 kelime var. Konuşma bölümü 10:46 sürüyor. Konuşmacı dakikada yaklaşık 153 kelimeyle, günlük konuşmaya yakın doğal bir hızda konuşuyor. Kelimelerin %90’i İngilizcede en sık kullanılan 3.000 kelime arasında, bu yüzden kelime dağarcığını takip etmek kolay.

Bu videodaki önemli kelimeler

Videodaki en ileri düzey 13 kelime, telaffuzu ve anlamıyla:

Kelime	Telaffuz	Anlam
hamster isim	/ˈhæm(p)stɚ/	hamster
hustle fiil	/ˈhʌsəl/	acele etmek
mindset isim	/ˈmaɪn(d)ˌsɛt/	düşünce tarzı, zihniyet
payday isim	/ˈpeɪdeɪ/	maaş günü
empathy isim	/ˈɛmpəθi/	empati
intentionally zarf	/ɪnˈtɛn(t)ʃənəli/	kasten, kasıtlıca
necessity isim	/nɪˈsɛsəti/	gereklilik, lüzum
profound sıfat	/pɹəˈfaʊnd/	derin
unhappy sıfat	/ʌnˈhæpi/	mutsuz, üzgün
passionate sıfat	/ˈpæʃənɪt/	tutkulu
curriculum isim	/kəˈɹɪk.jə.ləm/	müfredat
meaningful sıfat	/ˈmiː.nɪŋ.fl̩/	anlamlı, manalı
overnight zarf	/əʊvə(ɹ)ˈnaɪt/	geceleyin, o gece

Duyacağınız deyimsel fiiller

Kelime	Anlam
figure out fiil	açığa çıkarmak
fall apart fiil	altüst olmak
keep up fiil	ayak uydurmak, yetişmek
stress out fiil	strese sokmak

Bu videodaki dil bilgisi

Konuşmacının en çok kullandığı yapılar, videodaki sözcüklerin aynısıyla:

Yapı	Videoda
Present perfect have/has + fiilin üçüncü hâli — geçmişte olan ama şimdi de önemli olan bir eylem	have realized · we've been · has been
İlgi cümlecikleri who / which + cümle — bir kişi ya da şey hakkında ek bilgi	someone who has · people who are · somebody who lives
Edilgen yapı be + fiilin üçüncü hâli — kimin yaptığı değil, ne olduğu önemli	have been provided · be treated · are trapped

Dikkat edilecek telaffuzlar

Konuşmacı they're, you're, don't gibi kısaltılmış biçimleri 35 kez kullanıyor. Bunları duyduğunuz gibi kısa söyleyin.

“sh” ve “zh” sesleri: intentionally /ɪnˈtɛn(t)ʃənəli/, passionate /ˈpæʃənɪt/
Uzun kelimeler — vurguyu doğru yere koyun: intentionally /ɪnˈtɛn(t)ʃənəli/, necessity /nɪˈsɛsəti/, curriculum /kəˈɹɪk.jə.ləm/

Türkçe konuşanların zorlandığı sesler:

Kelime başındaki ünsüz kümesi — araya ünlü eklemeyin: groceries /ˈɡɹoʊ.s(ə.)ɹiz/, profound /pɹəˈfaʊnd/, flip /flɪp/
/æ/ — “e”den daha açık: hamster /ˈhæm(p)stɚ/, unhappy /ʌnˈhæpi/, passionate /ˈpæʃənɪt/, barrier /ˈbæɹi.ə/

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; hamster, hustle, mindset 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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