Luyện nói tiếng Anh bằng Shadowing qua video: Good Will Hunting - "Idiosyncrasies"

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I went on a date last week.
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How'd it go?
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It was good.
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You going out again?
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I don't know.
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Why not?
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I haven't called her.
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You're an amateur.
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I know what I'm doing.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Don't worry about me.
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I know what I'm doing.
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Yeah, but this girl's like, you know, beautiful.
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She's smart.
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She's fun.
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It's different from most of the girls I've been with.
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So call her up, Romeo.
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Why?
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So I can realize she's not that smart, that she's fucking boring?
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You know what I mean?
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This girl's, like, fuckin' perfect right now.
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I don't want to ruin that.
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Maybe you're perfect right now.
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Maybe you don't want to ruin that.
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But I think that's a super philosophy, Will.
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That way you can go through your entire life without ever having to really know anybody.
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My wife used to fart when she was nervous.
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She had all sorts of wonderful little eosyncrasies.
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You know, she used to fart in her sleep.
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I'm sorry I shared that with you.
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One night it was so loud it woke the dog up.
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She woke up and got like, oh, is that you?
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See, I didn't have the heart to tell.
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Oh, God.
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She woke herself up.
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Yes.
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Oh, Christ.
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Ah, but, Will, she's been dead two years, and that's the shit I remember.
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Wonderful stuff, you know?
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Little things like that.
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Yeah, but those are the things I miss the most.
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The little idiosyncrasies that only I knew about.
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That's what made her my wife.
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Oh, and she had the goods on me, too.
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She knew all my little peccadilloes.
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People call these things imperfections, but they're not.
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Oh, that's the good stuff.
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And then we get to choose who we let into our weird little worlds.
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You're not perfect, sport.
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And let me save you the suspense.
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This girl you met, she isn't perfect either.
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But the question is whether or not you're perfect for each other.
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That's the whole deal.
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That's what intimacy is all about.
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Now, you can know everything in the world, sport, but the only way you're finding out that one is by giving it a shot.
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You certainly won't learn from an old fucker like me.
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Even if I did know, I wouldn't tell a pissant like you.
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Now, why not?
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You told me every other fucking thing.
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Jesus Christ.
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If I can talk more than any shrink I've ever seen in my life.
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I teach this shit.
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I didn't say I know how to do it.
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Yeah.
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You ever think about getting remarried?
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My wife's dead.
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Hence the word remarried.
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She's dead.
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Yeah.
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Well, I think that's a super philosophy, Sean.
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I mean, that way you could actually go through the rest of your life without ever really knowing anybody.
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Time's up.

Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This video has 73 sentences and 470 words to shadow. The speech runs for 3:01. The speaker talks at a natural 156 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 86% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

14 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
ruin noun/ˈɹuː.ɪn/The remains of a destroyed or dilapidated construction, such as a house or castle.
hence adverb/ˈhɛns/In the future from now.
amateur noun/ˈæ.mə.t͡ʃɚ/A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, science, or art (such as music or painting), especially one who cultivates any study, interest, taste, or…
bore verb/boɹ/To inspire boredom in somebody.
intimacy noun/ˈɪn.tɪ.mə.si/Intimate relationship.
suspense noun/səˈspɛns/The condition of being suspended; cessation for a time.
remarry verb/ɹiːˈmæɹi/To marry a second or subsequent time (the same spouse or a different one) after the end of a marriage.
idiosyncrasy noun/ˌɪdiəˈsɪŋkɹəsi/A behavior or way of thinking that is characteristic of a person or a group.
imperfection noun/ɪmpɚˈfɛkʃən/Those qualities or features that are imperfect; the characteristic, state, or quality of being imperfect.
peccadillo noun/ˌpɛ.kəˈdɪ.loʊ/A small flaw or sin.
anybody/ˈɛn.i.bə.di/Any one out of an indefinite number of persons; anyone; any person.
philosophy noun/fɪˈlɑ.sə.fi/An academic discipline that seeks truth through reasoning rather than empiricism, often attempting to provide explanations relating to general concepts such as…
teach verb/ˈtiːt͡ʃ/To pass on knowledge to.
loud adjective/ˈlaʊ̯d/Of great intensity.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

WordPronunciationMeaning
go through verbTo travel from one end of something to the other.
find out verbTo discover, as by asking or investigating.
go out verbTo leave, especially a building.
wake up verb/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/To stop sleeping; to awake.

Ngữ pháp trong video

Những cấu trúc người nói dùng nhiều nhất, kèm đúng cụm từ trong video:

Cấu trúcTrong video
“Used to” used to + động từ — thói quen hoặc tình trạng trong quá khứ nay không cònused to fart
Thì hiện tại hoàn thành have/has + quá khứ phân từ — việc đã xảy ra nhưng còn liên quan đến hiện tạihaven't called · I've been · I've ever seen

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 22 contractions and reduced forms, such as you're, don't, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

  • Long words — get the stress right: intimacy /ˈɪn.tɪ.mə.si/, idiosyncrasy /ˌɪdiəˈsɪŋkɹəsi/, imperfection /ɪmpɚˈfɛkʃən/, peccadillo /ˌpɛ.kəˈdɪ.loʊ/, anybody /ˈɛn.i.bə.di/

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 ruin, hence, amateur.

Phương Pháp Shadowing Là Gì?

Shadowing là kỹ thuật học ngôn ngữ có cơ sở khoa học, ban đầu được phát triển cho chương trình đào tạo phiên dịch viên chuyên nghiệp và được phổ biến rộng rãi bởi nhà đa ngôn ngữ học Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Nguyên lý cốt lõi đơn giản nhưng cực kỳ hiệu quả: bạn nghe tiếng Anh của người bản xứ và lặp lại to ngay lập tức — như một "cái bóng" (shadow) đuổi theo người nói với độ trễ chỉ 1–2 giây. Khác với luyện ngữ pháp hay học từ vựng bị động, Shadowing buộc não bộ và cơ miệng phải đồng thời xử lý và tái tạo ngôn ngữ thực tế. Các nghiên cứu khoa học xác nhận phương pháp này cải thiện đáng kể phát âm, ngữ điệu, nhịp điệu, nối âm, kỹ năng nghe và độ lưu loát khi nói — đặc biệt hiệu quả cho người luyện IELTS Speaking và muốn giao tiếp tiếng Anh tự nhiên như người bản ngữ.

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