Shadowing Practice: stop 'getting through' life. start living it. - Learn English Speaking with Video
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There are now an extraordinary number of ways to discover you're doing perfectly ordinary things.
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Incorrectly.
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You can wake up at what seems like a reasonable hour and find out you've already missed the ideal window for sunlight.
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You can make breakfast and discover that while the breakfast itself is fine, you've eaten it in the wrong order.
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Yes, there's apparently a right order.
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Going for a walk sounds innocent enough until someone explains that you should really be walking faster, or slower, or possibly uphill.
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Even breathing has become suspicious.
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There are people on the internet who would like to help you breathe better, sleep better, stand better, think better, and, somewhat ominously, age better.
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You can improve your jawline while you sleep, optimize your shower.
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Apparently there's even a correct way to sit down now.
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I haven't looked into that one.
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I need somewhere to draw the line.
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The funny thing is, most of this advice is probably well -intentioned.
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Some of it is useful.
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Some of it might actually make your life better.
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But taken together, it creates a pretty strange impression.
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That being a person is something you could be better at.
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This idea has become unusually literal lately.
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Everything is being maxed.
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Sleep maxing, looks maxing, health maxing.
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The suffix can apparently be attached to almost any part of human existence and immediately make it sound competitive.
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I'm waiting for lunch maxing, although I suspect we're already doing it and calling it protein.
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What interests me isn't really the word.
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The word will eventually disappear, as words do, when enough parents start using them correctly.
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The instinct underneath it is much older.
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We like improving things.
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More specifically, we like the feeling that something can be improved.
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Because improvement gives you somewhere to go.
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There's a satisfying logic to it.
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Identify the problem, make an adjustment, and, as a result, become slightly better.
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This works beautifully for many things it's less straightforward
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when the thing being optimized is a human being
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because optimization requires a problem
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and before you can improve something you have to find something wrong with it do
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that to yourself often enough and you can become remarkably skilled at spotting everything in you
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and your life that could use some work ask someone how they're doing
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and it's remarkable how quickly the conversation can turn into everything
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they should probably be doing better someone can tell you they're sleeping eight hours, exercising regularly, and eating reasonably well,
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and somehow the conversation still has the tone of confession.
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I really need to start stretching.
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Of course, the stretching.
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We forgot the stretching.
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There's always one more thing standing between you and having finally done yourself correctly.
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Maybe you should meditate.
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You could certainly drink more water.
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You haven't read enough lately.
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By the way, how's your posture?
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I'm talking to you.
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Did you just sit up straighter?
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There.
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I've ruined sitting for you.
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This is what I mean.
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It happened so quickly that we barely noticed the assumption underneath it.
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Wherever you currently are, there's probably a slightly better version available.
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And I like better.
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That's what makes this complicated.
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I have ambitions, really big ones, and I don't really want to cure myself of them.
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I think wanting things is a wonderful thing.
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There are projects worth becoming temporarily unreasonable about and skills worth spending years getting better at.
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But surely ambition needs a little jurisdiction.
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Surely it doesn't also need breakfast.
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There's another problem with all this improving, which is that nobody seems to know when it's finished.
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This is easier with certain things.
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If you're painting a wall, eventually the wall is painted.
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If you're assembling a bookshelf, at some point it either resembles a bookshelf where you've made a very expensive pile of wood.
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But what does finish look like when the project is you?
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There's no obvious moment when you've slept enough, exercised enough, become interesting enough, or finally achieved the correct relationship with your phone.
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The finish line has an annoying habit of moving as you approach it.
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You start exercising because you want to feel better.
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Then you feel better, which is great, except now you could be stronger.
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You start reading more, and before long you're keeping track of how many books you've read, at which point somebody casually mentions they've read 52 this year
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and suddenly what was once a book has become a disappointing statistic.
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This is one of the more impressive things about humans.
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Give us an improvement and we can turn it into a baseline almost immediately.
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Maybe that's why satisfaction has started to feel so damn suspicious.
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To be satisfied with something sounds dangerously close to no longer having plans for it.
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Even saying, I'm pretty happy with myself, can feel oddly boastful.
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You want to add something afterward, like, mostly, for now.
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Obviously, there are things I'm working on.
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There.
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Much better.
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We seem more comfortable with ourselves when there's a renovation underway.
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And I understand that.
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Wanting more has moved people across oceans.
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It's made art and businesses in extremely tall buildings.
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Dissatisfaction can be enormously useful.
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But useful isn't the same as something you want running 24 hours a day.
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A smoke alarm is useful, but I wouldn't want one providing general commentary.
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I don't think you would either.
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At some point, there has to be a difference between seeing possibility in yourself and treating yourself like you're perpetually behind schedule.
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Satisfaction doesn't have to mean you've run out of ambition.
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Maybe you're just allowed to occasionally look at something in your life without immediately reaching for a wrench.
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because there's a point at which improving your life begins to interfere with the rather important business of living it.
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You get through the morning routine so you can start work, get through work so you can exercise, get through exercise so you can make dinner, get through dinner because there's something you want to watch.
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Then suddenly you're doing your sleep routine
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because tomorrow you'd like to be exceptionally good at waking up and somehow another day has been successfully processed.
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That's the part I find unsettling.
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We keep trying to save time, organize things so they'll be faster, develop routines so we don't have to think,
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and listen to podcasts and voice notes at one and a half speed because apparently even people's sentences are taking too long.
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And whenever we manage to save some time, we immediately give it another job.
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It never seems to remain saved.
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I've never heard anyone say, I became much more efficient at email and now every afternoon I stare out the window.
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No, we found 17 minutes.
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Obviously, we put something in it.
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Maybe that's why good enough makes people nervous.
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It sounds suspiciously like a person has stopped trying.
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We hear good enough and imagine resignation, standard slipping, and someone eating beans directly from the tin.
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Which, depending on the hour, might just be efficient.
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But there has to be a difference between giving up and deciding that something doesn't require further improvement.
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I don't need every part of my life operating at peak performance.
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In fact, I'm not entirely sure I want to know what peak performance looks like in several areas.
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Friendship, for example.
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What would an optimized friendship even be?
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You could probably make it more efficient.
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Have an agenda and circulate notes afterward.
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See each other for exactly 73 minutes because research recommends that's when the marginal friendship returns begin to decline.
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Nobody wants this person.
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And yet we increasingly bring that same little managerial instinct into experiences that become strange the moment they're measured too closely.
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Fun is the obvious one.
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Ask somebody who's laughing whether they're having fun and watch them briefly stop having it to find out.
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Sleep does something similar.
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The harder you concentrate on falling asleep, the more absurd the entire process becomes.
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There are things that seem to require a certain amount of neglect in order to work, which is inconvenient for those of us who like to interfere i wonder
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if this has something to do with why time seems to move
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so quickly now we're always trying to get something over with
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the email the workout the commute wednesday wednesday hasn't done anything wrong
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but apparently we'd really like to get through that too
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finish this start
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that use the gap between the two to answer something you can make an entire day run beautifully
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and then it's over do you see the danger in becoming extremely efficient at getting through your own life?
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Because presumably getting through it wasn't the objective.
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Well, nobody mentioned that in the brochure.
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I don't think the answer is to abandon self -improvement.
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That sounds exhausting in its own way.
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You'd have to become very committed to not improving, and before long there'd probably be a podcast about it.
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Then we'd call it lazy maxing, and somehow I'd find out I was doing that wrong too.
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I think I'm more interested in leaving certain things alone, allowing some parts of life to remain completely unimpressive.
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You should be able to waste an afternoon without later discovering it was actually restorative.
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Maybe you watched a comfort film in the middle of the day.
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You learned nothing.
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Your cortisol remains whatever cortisol is supposed to be.
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You are no better equipped to face the week ahead.
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You watched The Parent Trap again.
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That was the afternoon.
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We're very suspicious of wasted time for people who regularly spend 40 minutes deciding what to watch
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and maybe waste is the wrong word anyway you can waste an afternoon
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and remember it for 20 years you can use an afternoon extremely well
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and have absolutely no recollection of it the following week
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which one was wasted i don't know but i think it's worth asking
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because there's a possibility hiding inside all of this self -improvement
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you could become healthier more efficient better read better rested and exceptionally well hydrated and still somehow miss your own life.
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You were there, of course.
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You were just busy taking notes on how the whole thing could have gone better.
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At some point, you should be allowed to stop taking notes and just live.
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No maxing required.
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Oh, hey, you made it to the end.
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Congratulations on your attention span.
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Seriously, bravo.
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If you want more of this sort of thing, the essays are available in printed form as well as a digital version if you prefer reading,
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or listening if you're one of the surprisingly large number of people who enjoys my voice for reasons I'll never fully understand.
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And if you're writing something of your own, the writing outline systems I use for books, film, and TV are there too.
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Everything's at theashfiles .com.
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Now, go and make something.
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And thank you for watching.
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Bu dersin kelimeleri ve konuşma notları
Bu konuşma dersi “stop 'getting through' life. start living it” videosuna dayanıyor. Bu videoda gölgeleme çalışması için 164 cümle ve 1813 kelime var. Konuşma bölümü 10:24 sürüyor. Konuşmacı dakikada yaklaşık 174 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 öğrenmeye değer 15 kelime, telaffuzu ve anlamıyla:
| Kelime | Telaffuz | Anlam |
|---|---|---|
| efficient sıfat | /ɪˈfɪʃənt/ | verimli |
| discover fiil | /dɪˈskʌvə/ | keşfetmek |
| friendship isim | /ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/ | arkadaşlık, dostluk |
| stretch fiil | /stɹɛt͡ʃ/ | germek, çekmek |
| suspicious sıfat | /səˈspɪʃ.əs/ | şüpheli, şüphe uyandırıcı |
| afterwards zarf | /ˈæf.tɚ.wɚdz/ | sonradan, daha sonra |
| breathe fiil | /bɹiːð/ | nefes alıp vermek, solumak |
| satisfaction isim | /sætɪsˈfækʃən/ | tatmin |
| podcast isim | /ˈpɑdˌkæst/ | podcast |
| underneath zarf | /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/ | altında, altı |
| satisfy fiil | /ˈsætɪsfaɪ/ | tatmin etmek, yetmek |
| interfere fiil | /ˌɪn.tɚˈfɪɚ/ | karışmak, müdahale etmek |
| instinct isim | /ˈɪn.stɪŋkt/ | içgüdü, insiyak |
| tone isim | /ˈtəʊn/ | ton |
| complicated sıfat | /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/ | karışık, komplike |
Duyacağınız deyimsel fiiller
| Kelime | Telaffuz | Anlam |
|---|---|---|
| find out fiil | anlamak, ortaya çıkarmak | |
| sit down fiil | oturmak | |
| wake up fiil | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | uyanmak |
Tekrar etmeye değer cümleler
Videodan, günlük konuşmada yeniden kullanabileceğiniz kısa ve tam cümleler:
- I haven't looked into that one.
- What interests me isn't really the word.
- You haven't read enough lately.
- By the way, how's your posture?
- Did you just sit up straighter?
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 | you've already missed · you've eaten · has become |
| Edilgen yapı be + fiilin üçüncü hâli — kimin yaptığı değil, ne olduğu önemli | being maxed · be attached · can be improved |
| İlgi cümlecikleri who / which + cümle — bir kişi ya da şey hakkında ek bilgi | improving, which is · better, which is · work, which is |
Dikkat edilecek telaffuzlar
Konuşmacı you're, don't, I'm gibi kısaltılmış biçimleri 55 kez kullanıyor. Bunları duyduğunuz gibi kısa söyleyin.
- “th” sesleri: breathe /bɹiːð/, underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/
- “sh” ve “zh” sesleri: efficient /ɪˈfɪʃənt/, friendship /ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/, suspicious /səˈspɪʃ.əs/, ambition /æmˈbɪʃ.ən/, satisfaction /sætɪsˈfækʃən/
- Uzun kelimeler — vurguyu doğru yere koyun: satisfaction /sætɪsˈfækʃən/, beautifully /ˈbju.tɪ.fə.li/, exceptionally /ɪkˈsɛp(t)ʃənəli/, complicated /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/, successfully /səkˈsɛs.fə.li/
Türkçe konuşanların zorlandığı sesler:
- /w/ — dudaklar yuvarlak, /v/ değil: afterwards /ˈæf.tɚ.wɚdz/, wherever /(h)wɛɹˈɛvɚ/, workout /ˈwɝk.aʊ̯t/, underway /ʌndəɹˈweɪ/, straightforward /ˌstɹeɪtˈfɔː(ɹ)wə(ɹ)d/
- Kelime başındaki ünsüz kümesi — araya ünlü eklemeyin: friendship /ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/, stretch /stɹɛt͡ʃ/, breathe /bɹiːð/, beautifully /ˈbju.tɪ.fə.li/, skill /skɪl/
- /æ/ — “e”den daha açık: ambition /æmˈbɪʃ.ən/, afterwards /ˈæf.tɚ.wɚdz/, satisfaction /sætɪsˈfækʃən/, podcast /ˈpɑdˌkæst/, satisfy /ˈsætɪsfaɪ/
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; efficient, discover, friendship 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.