Luyện nói tiếng Anh bằng Shadowing qua video: How to Become Extraordinary (or Not)
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If you're like me, you're probably binge watching your 81st video right now.
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Hey, I can't blame you.
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I do the same shit.
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But you know, it's funny watching YouTube all the time or being on social media all the the time,
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you're always exposed to the most extraordinary parts of human experience.
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For instance, I can get on YouTube or Instagram
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and I can instantly see a guy pick up a thousand pounds off the floor
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and he's got arms like the size of my toilet bowl.
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Or I can see an eight-year-old who's better at piano than I am at anything, really.
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You see this encouragement of the extraordinary all over pop culture.
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You see it in talk shows, you see it in inspirational figures, you see it in commercials, and you especially see it in the self-help industry.
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One of the biggest things that's sold to you in the self-help industry is
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that we all have this special extraordinary thing inside us, and it's just waiting to get out.
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All you need to know is the secret to get it out of you.
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That unless you're doing something incredible with your life, then it's somehow wasted.
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I think this is bullshit.
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In fact, I think the problem isn't so much us, we've lost track of what normal, good human experience is actually like.
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First of all, most of us are going to be ordinary at the vast majority of things that we do.
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Second of all, even if you are able to lift a thousand pounds off the ground or whatever,
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doesn't necessarily make you a good father or a good friend or or even a good person.
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These extraordinary things that we're exposed to while being super cool
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and entertaining aren't necessarily the most important metrics to be gauging our lives on.
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So this is a bell curve and
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if you wanted to graph most human skills and activities
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and put all the people who are the very best on the right
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and all the people who are very worst on the left, what you end up getting is a nice bell shape.
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The vast majority of people are in the middle somewhere, and as you get out to either extreme, there are fewer and fewer people at those extremities.
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When we see something like, I don't know, Michael Jordan slam dunking, he's in the 99.9th percentile.
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He's one of the best human beings that has ever lived.
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He's on this part of the bell curve.
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He's so far on this end of the bell curve that you can't even see what's over there.
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He doesn't even show up on the graph.
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And then you take somebody like, I don't know, this guy, he's so much worse than everybody.
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He's on the other end of the bell curve.
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What all this great technology and media has done to us is that we are constantly exposed to the extremes, to the tail ends of the bell curve,
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while we go outside and our day-to-day life is in the fat, boring middle.
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But Mark, if I'm not extraordinary, what do I do with my life?
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And it's like, well, who says you need to be extraordinary to have a valuable and meaningful life?
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In fact, I would argue that some of the most important things in life are not extraordinary at all.
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Things like raising a kid well, things like taking care of your health, being an honest and good person to your friends and family.
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These are not extraordinary things.
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In fact, they are the most ordinary things.
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And I think they're ordinary things for a reason, because they're the most important.
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And there's a paradox to this as well.
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If you want to do one of those extraordinary things, the way you do it is by doing the ordinary extremely well for a long time.
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For instance, that dude who lifts a thousand pounds, I mean, he's probably been hitting the gym three hours a day for the last 25 years.
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There's nothing extraordinary about going into the gym and lifting slightly more weight than you did last time.
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When you compound that over the course of decades, you end up with an extraordinary result.
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But if you go into it looking for the extraordinary result, you're going to create false expectations and you're just going to feel like shit about yourself.
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And so there's this contrast.
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Our actual lived experience is, I'm just like everybody fucking else.
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But our expectation is, is I should be jumping out of planes in a wingsuit and fucking landing on Mount Everest.
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It's one of those things that while the intention is very good, I think it causes more suffering than it resolves.
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So I say fuck being extraordinary.
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Let's bring back the ordinary.
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Let's bring back being average.
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Because if we're being honest, we're all pretty average most of the time.
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And that's okay.
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Từ vựng và ghi chú luyện nói cho bài học này
Bài luyện nói trình độ B2 này dựa trên video “How to Become Extraordinary”. Những từ được nhắc lại nhiều nhất trong bài: extraordinary, bell, curve, ordinary, exposed. Video này có 58 câu và 831 từ để luyện shadowing. Phần lời nói dài 4:45. Người nói nói với tốc độ tự nhiên, khoảng 175 từ mỗi phút, gần với hội thoại hằng ngày. 86% số từ nằm trong 3.000 từ tiếng Anh thông dụng nhất; phần còn lại nên xem trước khi luyện.
Từ vựng quan trọng trong video
8 từ khó nhất trong video, kèm phiên âm và nghĩa:
| Từ | Phiên âm | Nghĩa |
|---|---|---|
| curve danh từ | /kɚv/ | khúc quanh |
| graph danh từ | /ɡɹæf/ | biểu đồ |
| paradox danh từ | /ˈpæ.ɹəˌdɒks/ | nghịch lý |
| entertain động từ | /ˌɛntəˈteɪn/ | giải trí, tiêu khiển |
| metric tính từ | /ˈmɛt.ɹɪk/ | mét |
| bore động từ | /boɹ/ | khoan, đục |
| meaningful tính từ | /ˈmiː.nɪŋ.fl̩/ | có ý nghĩa |
| compound danh từ | /ˈkɑmpaʊnd/ | hợp chất |
Cụm động từ bạn sẽ nghe
| Từ | Nghĩa |
|---|---|
| pick up động từ | nhặt, lượm |
Những câu đáng luyện lại
Các câu ngắn, trọn ý trong video mà bạn có thể dùng lại khi giao tiếp hằng ngày:
- Hey, I can't blame you.
- Let's bring back the ordinary.
- Let's bring back being average.
Ngữ pháp trong video
Những cấu trúc người nói dùng nhiều nhất, kèm đúng cụm từ trong video:
| Cấu trúc | Trong video |
|---|---|
| Thì hiện tại hoàn thành have/has + quá khứ phân từ — việc đã xảy ra nhưng còn liên quan đến hiện tại | we've lost · has ever lived · has done |
| Mệnh đề quan hệ who / which + mệnh đề — thêm thông tin về người hoặc vật | people who are |
Phát âm cần chú ý
Người nói dùng 22 dạng rút gọn, ví dụ you're, we're, can't. Hãy nói theo dạng ngắn đúng như bạn nghe.
- Âm “sh” và “zh”: expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/, inspirational /ˌɪnspəˈɹeɪʃənəl/
- Từ dài — đặt trọng âm cho đúng: expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/, extremity /ɪkˈstɹɛməti/, inspirational /ˌɪnspəˈɹeɪʃənəl/, encouragement [ɪnˈkʌɹɪd͡ʒmənt]
Cách luyện với video này
- Nghe hết video một lần, chưa cần nói, và ghi lại những từ bạn chưa biết.
- Bắt đầu ở tốc độ 0,75×, nói đuổi từng câu, rồi quay lại tốc độ bình thường khi đã quen.
- Ghi âm giọng mình rồi so với bản gốc, chú ý các từ như curve, graph, paradox.
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.