Luyện nói tiếng Anh bằng Shadowing qua video: Have You Ever Compared Yourself To Others?

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A lot people spend their whole lives always comparing themselves to other people without even knowing how much it negatively affects them.
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When comparing yourself to someone who is inferior than you, you may feel content with who you are and lose the passion to grow to your full potential.
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When comparing yourself to someone who is superior than you, it could just make you feel bad about yourself and focus only on how little you've progressed in comparison to them.
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And this can be very discouraging altogether.
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I mean if you look at someone else and work your own goals around theirs you're actually following someone else's path.
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But that path is probably not the same path as yours and will not be the path you need to take in order for you to achieve your own dreams.
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The thing is, everyone is different.
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Diamonds are valuable because it doesn't pretend to be Topaz.
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Topaz are valuable because it doesn't pretend to be Rubies.
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Everything is beautiful in it's own way.
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We are all valuable in our own way.
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For example, if you're a fish but you compare your running skills to a tiger, you will undoubtedly be disappointed in your own value.
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But actually, you can swim way better than a tiger can.
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And that there is your value.
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Therefore, what you should be focusing on is finding yourself.
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Walking on your own path and competing with yourself.
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Instead of looking at yourself and the things that you don't have, you should be focusing on the things that you do have and do well.
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And even if being yourself doesn't always succeed, like maybe you'll fall, or maybe you'll fail, you should just think that whatever the outcome is, it's the best outcome you could have.
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Now you're probably wondering something like: Hey I lost the race, hey I didn't do as well on my exams as my friends, hey I did terribly in the job interview, and then think how is that the best outcome I could have?
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It's the best outcome because of the circumstances in that moment.
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I'll give you an example, there was a runner who finished in 4th place because the night before she raced, she didn't sleep very well therefore not getting enough rest and not having enough energy to run as she did when she was training.
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She was really sad and she blamed herself because she thought that she didn't do the best that she could because if she had had more rest, she would have done better.
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But in reality, she's not able to turn back the time to when she didn't get enough rest.
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Which means that ultimately, we cannot control everything and we cannot change anything even if it wasn't done as well as we had hoped.
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It really was the best outcome considering the situation.
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The voice in our head that's always telling us things like "had I known, I wouldn't have done it that way" or "if I hadn't done it like this, I wouldn't be in the position I am in now", they comes from our hope and expectations that want to fix our disappointments but in reality we aren't able to turn back the time to fix what's already happened.
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And because we can't fix it, then we think that's it's our fault and we blame ourselves.
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But no matter how much we blame ourselves, we can't change the past.
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Therefore, the only thing that can release us from blaming ourselves is to understand that we are not the only cause for what happened.
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The runner finished in 4th place not just because she was too excited to fall asleep.
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But it was also because of several other reasons.
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The 3 winners had trained 6 months longer than her and were more familiar with the trail.
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Not only that, but actually there was another runner that didn't make it because of a major traffic jam.
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There was traffic because there was construction.
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There was construction to fix a broken telephone pole.
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There was a broken telephone pole from the lightning and there was lightning from the storm.
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Now you can see that had the storm not hit last night, our racer would've finished 5th place because the other runner would have made it to the race.
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There are so many other reasons that this could have happened.
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We are not the only ones to cause something to happen and we can never go back to change the past.
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So if we remember that when we are disappointed in ourselves, we may learn to blame ourselves less, have a little bit more understanding and be able to accept the things that happen to us.

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Từ vựng quan trọng trong video

13 từ ít gặp trong video, kèm phiên âm và nghĩa:

  • compare /kəmˈpɛɚ/ (động từ) — so sánh, so. To assess the similarities and differences between two or more things [“to compare X with Y”]. Having made the comparison of X with Y, one might have found it…
  • runner /ˈɹʌnɚ/ (danh từ) — người chạy. A person who moves, on foot, at a fast pace, especially an athlete.
  • disappointed /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd/ (tính từ) — thất vọng. Defeated of expectations or hope; experiencing disappointment; let down.
  • telephone /ˈtɛləˌfoʊn/ (danh từ) — điện thoại, dây nói. A telecommunication device which converts data or sounds (usually speech) into electrical signals which are then transmitted to enable two or more people to…
  • tiger /ˈtaɪɡə/ (danh từ) — hổ, cọp. Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.
  • pole /pəʊl/ (danh từ) — cực. Either of the two points on the earth's surface around which it rotates; also, similar points on any other rotating object.
  • lightning /ˈlaɪt.nɪŋ/ (danh từ) — sét, chớp. A flash of light produced by short-duration, high-voltage discharge of electricity within a cloud, between clouds, or between a cloud and the earth.
  • passion /ˈpæʃən/ (danh từ) — đam mê. A true desire sustained or prolonged.
  • diamond /ˈdaɪ.ə.mənd/ (danh từ) — kim cương. A glimmering glass-like mineral that is an allotrope of carbon in which each atom is surrounded by four others in the form of a tetrahedron.
  • swim /swɪm/ (động từ) — bơi, tắm. To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means.
  • disappointment /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪntmənt/ (danh từ) — sự thất vọng. The feeling or state of being disappointed: a feeling of sadness or frustration when something is not as good as one hoped or expected, or when something bad…
  • theirs /ðɛɚz/ — của họ. That or those belonging to them; the possessive case of they, used without a following noun.
  • circumstance /ˈsɝ.kəmˌstæns/ (danh từ) — hoàn cảnh. Something which is related to, or in some way affects, a fact or event.

Cụm động từ bạn sẽ nghe

  • come from (động từ) — đến từ, quê ở. To have as one's origin, birthplace or nationality.

Phát âm cần chú ý

Người nói dùng 24 dạng rút gọn, ví dụ didn't, doesn't, you're. Hãy nói theo dạng ngắn đúng như bạn nghe.

  • Âm “th”: altogether /ɔl.tuˈɡɛð.ɚ/, theirs /ðɛɚz/
  • Âm “sh” và “zh”: passion /ˈpæʃən/, expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/
  • Từ dài — đặt trọng âm cho đúng: disappointed /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd/, superior /sʊˈpɪɹ.i.ɚ/, altogether /ɔl.tuˈɡɛð.ɚ/, disappointment /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪntmənt/, expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/

Cách luyện với video này

  1. Nghe hết video một lần, chưa cần nói, và ghi lại những từ bạn chưa biết.
  2. Bắt đầu ở tốc độ 0,75×, nói đuổi từng câu, rồi quay lại tốc độ bình thường khi đã quen.
  3. Ghi âm giọng mình rồi so với bản gốc, chú ý các từ như compare, runner, disappointed.

Ngữ pháp trong video

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

Cấu trúcTrong video
Mệnh đề quan hệ who / which + mệnh đề — thêm thông tin về người hoặc vậtsomeone who is
So sánh nhất the -est / the most … — mức cao nhất hoặc thấp nhất trong một nhómthe best
Lời khuyên với “should” should + động từ — nói điều nên làmshould be · should just think
Khả năng với “might / may” might/may + động từ — điều có thể xảy ra nhưng không chắcmay feel · may learn

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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