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Hello, everyone.
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My name is Andrew.
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And I'm Cassie.
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And you are listening to Q-Lips.
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Today, I'm joined by my co-host, Cassie.
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Cassie, hey there.
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Could you let our listeners know what the topic of today's episode is? Of course.
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So today's topic is big purchases.
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Big purchases.
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And big does not mean the size.
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It means the price.
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The price.
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So yeah, let's break this down because it's a little bit confusing right from the start.
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Big purchases.
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So big, as you mentioned, refers to an expensive price.
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And a purchase is just something that you buy.
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When we say big purchases, we're just talking about buying expensive things.
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Yeah, such as a computer, a car, a boat.
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I guess how we can define big purchases varies from person
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to person depending on how much money you make right a
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house might be just a regular purchase for a rich person
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but for me that's a very big purchase exactly yes I think also a big purchase is something
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that you you don't buy Impulsively you don't buy as soon as you think about it.
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Like you take your time You shop around you look at different websites or different reviews to make your decision Mmm, that's a good point.
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And that's a really interesting expression you used just there shop around shop around
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And when we pronounce it We kind of connect
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that P sound to the a in around right shop around shop around shop around That's right.
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Yeah.
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So what does it mean to shop around?
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Shop around means to maybe go to different stores
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and look at the different price values at each store or go to different websites.
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You wouldn't just go to one store and pick it, right?
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It might be the most expensive option.
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You would shop around to a bunch of different places.
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yeah like I remember
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when I think it was my brother it may have been
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my sister I can't remember one of my siblings bought a new car
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and we shopped around and went to many different car dealerships that's what we call a store
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that sells cars is a dealership we went to many dealerships
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and test drove many different cars before deciding upon which car to buy.
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Because that's a big purchase, a new car.
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And we wanted to make sure that we could get the best price, the best deal, the best car.
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So we shopped around a lot.
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Did you find the perfect one?
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Yeah, I think in the end we found the perfect one.
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And actually, both my brother and my sister ended up buying Kia cars, Kia cars, which is funny because I live in Korea and you live in Gwangju,
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where Kia cars are manufactured.
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So they've both owned their cars now for like 10 years.
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So they both bought them around the same time.
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That's why I can't remember which one I went with.
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But, yep, they got good, good cars and they're happy with their big purchase.
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That's a great thing, right?
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Because that's one risk about making big purchases, right?
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There's always that chance that you could experience buyer's remorse, this feeling of regret that you bought the wrong thing.
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Yeah.
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I think everybody feels this probably at some point in their life.
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They feel like they wasted their money.
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They regret buying something because after they do, they realize, I just didn't really need that or I don't really use it very often.
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And we call this feeling buyer's remorse.
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Cassie, do you have any examples of buyer's remorse that you've had in your life?
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I have one example.
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Okay.
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So I was buying a smartphone and I decided to,
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you know, splurge, spend a lot more money than I would originally spend
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and get the new model of the most current iPhone model.
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Okay.
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And so I, you know, I put a lot of money into that.
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I got the beautiful glossy red color.
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And I decided I wanted to get a clear, thin phone case to show off that glossy red color of my phone.
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Okay.
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This is where the buyer's remorse came in.
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I think I know where you're going with the story.
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A week after I purchased my new amazing big purchase, I dropped it on the ground
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and my flimsy case did nothing to stop it from shattering the screen into many, many pieces.
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So do you regret buying the expensive phone or do you regret buying the cheap case?
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I regret buying the cheap case.
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Okay.
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Ah, yeah, that sucks.
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I have a similar situation about having some buyer's remorse with some tech.
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The last computer that I owned had a solid state hard drive inside of it.
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And this was a kind of new hard drive that has fewer moving parts in it, I believe, and so is more durable and long lasting.
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Actually, I'm not really sure about the technical aspects of solid state hard drives.
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But anyways, these were new to the market when I bought my laptop.
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And because of that, they were very expensive.
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So I bought a laptop with the biggest solid state hard drive I could afford at the time in the laptop,
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but it turned out to be actually a really small drive.
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It was like 80 gigabytes or something, which is not really too much when you run a podcast
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and you are dealing with tons of audio files on your computer all the time.
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So I was constantly having to manage the files on my computer,
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deleting new files, moving files back and forth between a portable hard drive, and it caused me just a lot of headaches.
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So I regret buying that solid state hard drive.
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I guess it shows that you got to really read the reviews before buying
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and know what you really want out of that purchase before you buy it.
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Right.
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Exactly.
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And that's something that I wanted to talk to you about, Cassie.
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And that is when you make a big purchase, what are the steps that you personally go through?
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I'm sure you don't just go to the store and buy something on impulse, like we said.
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So what do you do?
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Do you talk to your friends to get some advice or do you read reviews?
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What's your process like?
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the tooth methods that i do the most often are reading reviews online
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and asking other people who have made similar purchases okay i
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think word of mouth is the best way to get more accurate information about a product yeah especially
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if it's someone you trust because this is one of the things
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that I always think in the back of my mind when I read a review,
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maybe on Amazon, or if I'm watching a review video on YouTube, it's like, is this an honest review?
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Or is it a sponsorship?
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Is it an employee of the company writing the review on Amazon to make the product look really good?
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I'm always a little bit skeptical about online reviews from strangers.
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That's a good point.
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I tend not to buy something unless it has, you know, over a couple hundred or thousand reviews,
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because then I assume a good chunk of those reviews, a good percentage are, you know, truthful.
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That's a good way to do it.
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Cassie, before we wrap things up here, and I don't want you to share too much personal information, okay?
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Because I know in Western culture, talking about money is kind of taboo, right?
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But we're going to talk about money a little bit.
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And I'm just curious, what is the last big purchase you made?
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You don't have to tell me the amount, just the item.
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I mean, either is okay.
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But the last big purchase I made was a car.
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A car.
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Yeah, that's so cool.
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So could you tell us about the lead up to that purchase?
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Yeah.
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So I have not driven in three years before buying this car.
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And I wasn't a very good driver before that.
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So I was a little nervous to buy a car.
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but I moved to the boonies, the outskirts of the city, and I really needed one.
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So my biggest decision on making this big purchase was pretty much down to two criteria.
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The first was the price.
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I wanted a cheap car that even if I got into an accident or,
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you know, did something horrible to it, I wouldn't regret it.
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The second thing was to make sure I got I was it was a used car.
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So I wanted to get it from a reliable source so I didn't get scammed.
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And were you able to meet those two requirements?
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I was I am so satisfied with my purchase.
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Nice.
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Very good.
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I think the last big purchase that I made was my bicycle.
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For most of my life, I've always ridden cheap used bikes.
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And maybe the most I've ever spent on a bicycle was like $300 or something.
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But the bike that I own now is a lot more than that.
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But I got a good deal on it because I also bought a used one.
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And I did a lot of deliberation.
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I thought a lot before buying this bike.
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I read reviews all the time.
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I checked a community online for buying and selling used bikes almost every day.
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I would constantly refresh it to see if the bike that I wanted would appear.
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Finally, it did.
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And I pulled the trigger on that purchase.
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I made the decision to buy the bike.
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And interestingly, this is something I've never done before.
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But I knew I wanted to buy a bicycle that was decent.
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I knew I wanted to invest in a good bike.
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But I didn't want to spend a lot of money at once.
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So actually, I saved up for this bike little by little every month for almost two years.
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Wow.
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Yeah, I would just take a little bit of my paycheck every month and put it aside.
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So I knew that I wouldn't regret buying it because I had thought very deeply,
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almost for like two years, about making the purchase.
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And then it felt good.
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Like it didn't, I didn't see a big dip in my bank account at all
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because I had put this money aside specifically for that purchase.
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So yeah, if you can be patient when making a big purchase and save a little bit for a long time,
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I think that's the best way to go about it.
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But yeah, I think I'm really similar to you.
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I don't like to waste money.
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So oftentimes, big purchases actually make you so much happier than those cheaper, more impulsive type purchases.
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Yeah, I agree.
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Maybe that's why we don't have great buyers or more stories to tell.
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But I suppose that's a good thing, right?
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I think so.
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Well, Cassie, I think we should wrap things up here.
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That was a fun topic to discuss with you.
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We will be back soon with another brand new episode and we'll talk to you then.
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Goodbye.
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Catch you later.
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Từ vựng quan trọng trong video

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

  • regret /ɹɪˈɡɹɛt/ (động từ) — hối tiếc, hối hận. To feel sorry about (a thing that has or has not happened), afterthink: to wish that a thing had not happened, that something else had happened instead.
  • topic /ˈtɑpɪk/ (danh từ) — chủ đề. A subject; a theme; a category or general area of interest.
  • laptop /ˈlæp.tɑp/ (danh từ) — máy tính xách tay, láp-tóp. A laptop computer.
  • bicycle /ˈbaɪsɪk(ə)l/ (danh từ) — xe đạp. A vehicle that has two primary wheels, one behind the other, a steering handle, and a saddle seat or seats and is usually propelled by the action of a rider’s…
  • listener /ˈlɪs(ə)nɚ/ (danh từ) — thính giả, người nghe. Someone who listens, especially to a speech or a broadcast.
  • wrap /ɹæp/ (động từ) — gói, bao. To enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper.
  • percentage /pə(ɹ)ˈsɛntɪd͡ʒ/ (danh từ) — số phần trăm, tỷ lệ phần trăm. The amount, number or rate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole.
  • audio /ˈɔ.di.oʊ/ (tính từ) — âm thanh, âm tần. Focused on audible sound, as opposed to sight.
  • everyday /ˈɛvɹiˌdeɪ/ (tính từ) — hằng ngày, thường ngày. Appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions.
  • thin /ˈθɪn/ (tính từ) — mỏng, mảnh. Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.
  • curious /ˈkjʊɹ.i.əs/ (tính từ) — tò mò. Tending to ask questions, or to want to explore or investigate; inquisitive; (with a negative connotation) nosy, prying.
  • suck /sʌk/ (động từ) — bú. To use the mouth and lips to pull in (a liquid, especially milk from the breast).
  • connect /kəˈnɛkt/ (động từ) — nối. To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object.
  • remind /ɹəˈmaɪnd/ (động từ) — nhắc nhở, nhắc. To cause one to experience a memory (of someone or something); to bring to the notice or consideration (of a person).
  • goodbye /ɡʊdˈbaɪ/ — tạm biệt, chào. Farewell; a formula used to another person or persons when the speaker, writer, or person addressed is departing.

Cụm động từ bạn sẽ nghe

  • get in (động từ) — lên, xuống. To get into or inside something, literally or figuratively.
  • show off (động từ) — khoe. To exhibit the best attributes of something.

Phát âm cần chú ý

Người nói dùng 47 dạng rút gọn, ví dụ don't, I'm, we're. Hãy nói theo dạng ngắn đúng như bạn nghe.

  • Âm “th”: thin /ˈθɪn/, tooth /tuθ/, truthful /ˈtɹuːθ.f(ə)l/
  • Âm “sh” và “zh”: refresh /ɹɪˈfɹɛʃ/, dealership /ˈdiːləʃɪp/, deliberation /dɪˌlɪbəˈɹeɪʃən/, shatter /ˈʃætɚ/
  • Từ dài — đặt trọng âm cho đúng: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, criterion /kɹaɪˈtɪɹ.i.ən/, deliberation /dɪˌlɪbəˈɹeɪʃən/

Cách luyện với video này

  1. Nghe hết video một lần, chưa cần nói, và ghi lại những từ bạn chưa biết.
  2. Nói đuổi từng câu ở tốc độ bình thường, lặp lại mỗi câu đến khi nhịp của bạn khớp với người nói.
  3. Ghi âm giọng mình rồi so với bản gốc, chú ý các từ như regret, topic, laptop.

Ngữ pháp trong video

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

Cấu trúcTrong video
Thì hiện tại hoàn thành have/has + quá khứ phân từ — việc đã xảy ra nhưng còn liên quan đến hiện tạihave made · have not driven · I've always ridden
Mệnh đề quan hệ who / which + mệnh đề — thêm thông tin về người hoặc vậtcars, which is · something, which is · people who have
So sánh nhất the -est / the most … — mức cao nhất hoặc thấp nhất trong một nhómthe most expensive · the best · the most current
Khả năng với “might / may” might/may + động từ — điều có thể xảy ra nhưng không chắcmight be · may have

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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