Luyện nói tiếng Anh bằng Shadowing qua video: it’s time to start participating in your own life.
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Most people believe their real life will begin shortly.
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Not today, of course.
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Today is mostly emails, laundry, and watching someone on the internet renovate a farmhouse in Portugal.
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Thank you.
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But soon, soon they'll start the novel or the business, or maybe the version of themselves who wakes up earlier, drinks less coffee, and somehow knows how to make a dinner party feel.
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It's effortless.
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Soon they'll become the person whose life they keep bookmarking. In the meantime...
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They watch.
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And by they, I of course mean most of us.
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We watch people move to cities we haven't visited, watch people fall in love in apartments with very good lighting.
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We watch people start companies, quit jobs, train for marathons, buy sourdough starters, and explain their morning routines as if mornings were something that required strategy.
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And the strange thing is that this has become a perfectly acceptable way to spend a life.
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observing other people appear to live theirs.
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There's now an entire economy built around it.
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You can watch someone build the life you want in 10 tidy minutes right here on YouTube.
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You can watch them wake up at 5 in the morning, journal, meditate.
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Drink some form of green liquid, answer emails from a laptop beside a window, and then say something encouraging about designing your life.
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It's very convincing.
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Mostly because it looks like the beginning of a story.
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And most of us, if we're being honest, feel a little like we're still waiting for ours to start.
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The peculiar thing about waiting for your life to begin is that it feels extremely responsible.
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Mature, even.
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People say things like, "I just need to get a few things sorted first." Which, yeah, sounds reasonable because there are always a few things to sort.
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Money, mostly. Or time.
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the vague but persistent feeling that you aren't quite the person who should be doing the thing yet.
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The strange assumption here is that there will eventually be a moment when you are.
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There'll be a version of yourself who's slightly more organized, more confident, and definitely more qualified to begin.
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This future self is very capable.
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Unfortunately, this future self is also fictional.
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But we spend a surprising amount of time preparing for them.
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We save ideas for them, trips for them, conversations for them, entire careers for them.
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We say things like, "One day I'd love to live somewhere else for a while,"
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which is a charming phrase because one day is the most accommodating timeline ever invented.
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One day asks nothing of you.
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It's not that people are lazy.
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Laziness would actually require a decision.
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What most people are is something closer to provisional.
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They're living a sort of draft version of their lives.
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The good dishes are saved for later.
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The interesting risks are postponed.
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The strange idea that keeps returning, the one that might embarrass you a little, is carefully placed into the category of Eventually...
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Meanwhile, the present continues in a very determined way.
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The calendar fills, the weeks acquire momentum, years begin to move with a slightly unsettling efficiency.
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And yet the feeling persists that the real narrative is somewhere ahead.
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You're merely warming up.
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Part of the problem, of course, is comparison.
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There's always been comparison, but it used to require leaving the house.
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Now it arrives continuously, you barely even have to participate.
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You open your phone and find people who appear to have things figured out.
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They're living in cities you admire, pursuing projects that sound suspiciously like the ones you once mentioned at dinner.
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Except they've somehow begun.
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You watch them document the process.
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They talk about the leap they took, the move they made, the decision that changed everything.
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But this is where it becomes slightly misleading.
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Because the leap, when described afterward, sounds intentional.
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as though it were always the plan.
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But if you listen carefully, the people who actually changed the shape of their lives rarely began with a plan at all.
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They started in a small, sometimes mildly humiliating way.
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They signed up for the class, eventually sent the email, bought the train ticket, and then spent three weeks wondering if they'd made a terrible mistake.
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This doesn't look impressive in real time, it almost always looks like confusion.
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But confusion, it turns out, is the beginning of most interesting lives.
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What's deceptive about watching other people live is that you're almost always seeing the edit.
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The uncertainty has been trimmed away, the awkward pauses are gone.
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The parts where someone doubted themselves in a kitchen at midnight have been replaced with a helpful voiceover.
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Life, unfortunately, does not provide a voiceover.
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This is obviously an exception.
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But it does mostly provide unimpressive moments in which you could do something slightly braver than usual, and often don't.
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Consider the number of people who've been meaning to write a novel for the past decade.
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These people aren't unserious about the novel.
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They've thought about it extensively.
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They've described it to friends.
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Many of them own very good notebooks.
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What they're waiting for, generally, is the moment when writing the novel will feel justified, or when they'll feel sufficiently prepared to begin a thing that might turn out badly.
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This moment has remarkable staying power.
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It can last 15 years.
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The same thing happens with other ambitions.
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People talk about learning a language or living somewhere new for a while.
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Finally starting the project they bring up every few months with an apologetic tone, as though the idea itself has begun to feel slightly embarrassing from overexposure.
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These conversations often occur in comfortable settings: restaurants, living rooms, long walks where everyone agrees that someday they will do something interesting.
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The advantage of "Someday," of course, is that it places the entire burden of action on a version of you who doesn't currently exist.
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And in the meantime, something else fills the space.
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Observation.
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You watch other people do the thing.
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You watch them move cities, start companies, publish books, train for marathons, quit jobs with alarming confidence.
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They explain the decision later with a clarity that suggests the entire thing was inevitable.
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It rarely was.
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Most lives that look intentional from the outside began in a way that felt, at the time, somewhat premature.
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Someone applied before they felt qualified, moved when it didn't seem especially sensible.
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And someone began something with absolutely no proof it would work.
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From a distance, this reads as boldness.
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Up close, it usually looks more like impatience.
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Because eventually, a realization occurs you notice
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that the life you keep imagining in the future is suspiciously dependent on decisions you've been postponing in the present.
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This realization doesn't arrive at a meaningful moment.
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You aren't gazing out at the ocean thinking about your future, you're doing something forgettable.
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Answering emails, sitting in traffic, pretending to listen while someone tells you how they've completely changed their life.
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And then it occurs to you: somewhat rudely.
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What if nothing notable is going to happen before the part you've been waiting for?
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And what if the life you're waiting to start is already underway, with or without your participation?
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Once that possibility occurs to you, it becomes slightly harder to remain a spectator.
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you My therapist says this thing, often enough that I've started hearing it in places she's not.
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What's in the way is the way.
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I hate it.
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Not real hate, just the kind of mild, domestic hate you reserve for people who are right too often.
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The hate that sounds like, huh, while you stir your coffee too loudly or nod a little too fast.
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I've rolled my eyes at it more than once, not out loud, I'm not that dramatic, but in that half -smile, sure, okay, way, you respond to something that sounds like it should be true,
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but mostly just feels like a lot of work. And still, it lingers.
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It follows me into parts of the day I don't have language for.
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The parts where I'm not stuck exactly, but circling something I don't want to name.
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Because I know what she means.
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I know what she's trying to do.
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I just don't want to be the kind of person who's in her own way.
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I want to be evolved, I want to be the kind of person who maybe was a mess once, but now works out because it's fun and drinks water before she's even thirsty.
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I think that's what she's trying to get me to see, that the thing I keep calling in the way might actually be the way through.
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which is So irritating because what's in the way is me.
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But I could never see it that way.
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I'd laid my life out like a nice, polite sidewalk.
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Flat, sensible, and absolutely no cracks.
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Also well -lit, you know, in case anyone passing by needed directions.
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I told myself it was caution.
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I've certainly called it maturity, and when all else fails, I've called it some thoughtful, evolved thing I probably read in a Brene Brown caption, but...
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Really?
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I was just.. trying to be easy to digest.
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like a saltine cracker stable predictable.
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Not exactly anyone's favorite, unless you're sick, of course, but no one's problem either.
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Careful in a way that looked responsible on the surface and afraid underneath.
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What looked like a block was really choreography.
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I was keeping things small and neat and narratable.
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I got very good at it.
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What's in the way is the way.
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God, I hate how right she was.
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Because once you see it, it becomes difficult to pretend you're still waiting for the conditions to improve.
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the conditions were never really the issue.
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I was.
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I had built a life where nothing had to challenge me so I could remain a spectator in my own life.
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someone observing events from a comfortable distance occasionally offering commentary.
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It was a very pleasant position, actually.
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You get to imagine the life you might live without the inconvenience of attempting it.
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The future remains flattering.
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The version of you who eventually gets around to things stays impressive.
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largely because they never have to show up.
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And once you recognize that arrangement, it becomes harder to ignore how often the same thing is happening everywhere else.
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Not because people lack ambition, most people have plenty of that.
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What they lack is the willingness to be slightly embarrassing in public while the story is still forming.
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Observation is safer.
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You can study other people's decisions, admire them, even narrate them a little.
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all while assuming your own life will become interesting later.
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But the uncomfortable part is that there is no separate moment when the narrative officially begins.
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There's no signal that the camera has turned in your direction.
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You've been in the scene the entire time.
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The only real question is whether you're still standing off to the side explaining it.
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or finally doing something that makes the explanation unnecessary. so.
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Which is it?
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Spectator or...
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Participant.
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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 “it’s time to start participating in your own life”. Video này có 155 câu và 1840 từ để luyện shadowing. Phần lời nói dài 10:41. Người nói nói với tốc độ tự nhiên, khoảng 172 từ mỗi phút, gần với hội thoại hằng ngày. 83% 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
15 từ khó nhất trong video, kèm phiên âm và nghĩa:
| Từ | Phiên âm | Nghĩa |
|---|---|---|
| embarrass động từ | /ɪmˈbæɹəs/ | làm xấu hổ |
| spectator danh từ | /spɛkˈteɪtə/ | người xem, khán giả |
| postpone động từ | /pəʊstˈpəʊn/ | hoãn |
| suspiciously trạng từ | đầy nghi ngờ, đa nghi | |
| leap động từ | /ˈliːp/ | nhảy (lên, qua, ...) |
| admire động từ | /ədˈmaɪɹ/ | khâm phục |
| observe động từ | /əbˈzɜːv/ | quan sát |
| observation danh từ | /ˌɑbzɚˈveɪʃn̩/ | sự quan sát |
| marathon danh từ | /ˈmæɹəθən/ | ma-ra-tông |
| bookmark danh từ | /ˈbʊkmɑːɹk/ | thẻ đánh dấu |
| flatter động từ | /ˈflætɚ/ | nịnh nọt |
| humiliate động từ | /hjuːˈmɪliˌeɪt/ | làm nhục, sỉ nhục |
| laziness danh từ | /ˈleɪ.zi.nəs/ | sự lười biếng |
| narrate động từ | /ˈnæɹeɪt/ | kể lại, thuật lại |
| renovate động từ | /ˈɹɛn.ə.veɪt/ | tu sửa |
Cụm động từ bạn sẽ nghe
| Từ | Phiên âm | Nghĩa |
|---|---|---|
| bring up động từ | nuôi nấng, nuôi | |
| wake up động từ | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | thức dậy, dậy lên |
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 tiếp diễn have/has been + -ing — việc bắt đầu từ trước và vẫn đang tiếp tục | you've been postponing · you've been waiting |
| Thì hiện tại hoàn thành have/has + quá khứ phân từ — việc đã xảy ra nhưng còn liên quan đến hiện tại | haven't visited · has become · There's always been |
| Câu bị động be + quá khứ phân từ — nhấn vào việc xảy ra, không phải người làm | are saved · are postponed · has been trimmed |
| Mệnh đề quan hệ who / which + mệnh đề — thêm thông tin về người hoặc vật | person who should · people who appear · people who actually |
Phát âm cần chú ý
Người nói dùng 45 dạng rút gọn, ví dụ you're, don't, I've. Hãy nói theo dạng ngắn đúng như bạn nghe.
- Âm “th”: marathon /ˈmæɹəθən/, thirsty /ˈθɝs.ti/, thoughtful /ˈθɔːtfəl/, theirs /ðɛɚz/, therapist /ˈθɛɹəpɪst/
- Âm “sh” và “zh”: realization /ˌɹɪə.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, intentional /ɪnˈtɛnʃənəl/, ambition /æmˈbɪʃ.ən/, observation /ˌɑbzɚˈveɪʃn̩/, confusion /kənˈfjuːʒən/
- Từ dài — đặt trọng âm cho đúng: realization /ˌɹɪə.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, intentional /ɪnˈtɛnʃənəl/, apologetic /əˌpɑləˈd͡ʒɛtɪk/, choreography /ˌkɔɹiˈɑɡɹəfi/, humiliate /hjuːˈmɪliˌeɪt/
Những âm người Việt thường gặp khó:
- Cụm phụ âm cuối — đọc đủ từng âm, đừng nuốt âm cuối: evolve /ɪˈvɑlv/, bookmark /ˈbʊkmɑːɹk/, impatience /ɪmˈpeɪʃəns/, persist /pɚˈsɪst/, invent /ɪnˈvɛnt/
- Âm /tʃ/, /dʒ/ và /ʒ/ — tiếng Việt không có, đừng đọc thành “ch” hay “gi”: confusion /kənˈfjuːʒən/, apologetic /əˌpɑləˈd͡ʒɛtɪk/, provisional /pɹəˈvɪʒənəl/, digest /daɪˈd͡ʒɛst/, charm /t͡ʃɑɹm/
- Âm /æ/ — mở miệng rộng hơn âm “e”: embarrass /ɪmˈbæɹəs/, ambition /æmˈbɪʃ.ən/, marathon /ˈmæɹəθən/, cracker /ˈkɹækə(ɹ)/, flatter /ˈflætɚ/
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 embarrass, spectator, postpone.
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.