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I have to be honest.
Tôi phải thành thật thôi.
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I'm a native English speaker,
Tôi là người bản ngữ nói tiếng Anh,
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I teach English, and I firmly believe that the English language can be really, really stupid.
Tôi dạy tiếng Anh, và tôi tin chắc rằng ngôn ngữ tiếng Anh đôi khi thật sự rất, rất vô lý.
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And I know that sounds harsh, but let me explain.
Và tôi biết nghe có vẻ khắc nghiệt, nhưng hãy để tôi giải thích.
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If you're learning English and you find the English language difficult, you find that sometimes it doesn't make any sense,
Nếu bạn đang học tiếng Anh và thấy ngôn ngữ này khó, bạn nhận ra rằng đôi khi nó chẳng có ý nghĩa gì cả.
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you're confused, you're frustrated, then I want to tell you that there's a good chance the problem is not you.
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Because the English language is difficult.
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It can be really confusing and honestly it can be stupid.
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There are times when things just don't make sense.
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So in today's video I'm going to talk to you about why English can be
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so difficult and I also want to give you some good news.
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So stay till the end of the video
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because I'm going to give you some good news which will hopefully help motivate you and encourage you to learn English.
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Now, one thing that happens when students first start learning English, maybe you can relate to this,
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maybe this is something that happened to you too, but a lot of students find English easy at the beginning.
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They find it simple.
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They find it not as complicated as some other languages. And this is true.
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At the beginning, English is actually quite basic.
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We only have one definite article.
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We don't have any gender.
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We don't have masculine or feminine nouns.
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We have one word.
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We word for everything, the.
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And the simple tenses in English, not the complicated tenses which you learn later,
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but the basic tenses like the present simple, past simple, they're simple.
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I did, you did, he did, we did, they did.
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It's all the same.
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And a lot of languages at the beginning you have to memorize a lot.
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When you get more advanced in English, so maybe you get to the B2 or the C1 level,
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you start to realize that things get a lot more difficult.
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And this is where the challenge begins.
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It seems like every rule you've learned in the past has an exception.
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So you have to relearn things.
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You have to learn them again.
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And this is one of the difficult things about English.
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It's a bit deceiving because at the beginning it seems to be quite easy.
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But the more advanced you get, the more you realize that, oh, there's a lot more to this language than I expected.
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Now, one of the most difficult things about English is spelling and pronunciation.
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And unfortunately, English can be really, really challenging when it comes to these two areas.
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Now whenever you learn a new word, it's not enough just to learn the word.
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Because if you look at a word, it's impossible to know the pronunciation just by looking at the spelling.
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Because there are so many different ways of pronouncing things in English,
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you actually need to learn the pronunciation at the same time you learn the word.
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So whenever you learn a new word, go to Google, go to Bing, go to any of these translation sites,
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type the word in, and then press the play button.
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There's always a play button so you can actually hear how the word is pronounced.
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So you're not only learning the word, you're not only learning the definition, but you're also learning the pronunciation at the same time.
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It's really going to save you a lot of time
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and a lot of effort so you don't have to go back and learn the pronunciation again.
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So whenever you learn something new, you learn a new word, you learn a new phrase,
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always look up the pronunciation and learn the correct pronunciation at the same time.
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Now why is English spelling and pronunciation so complicated and confusing.
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Well, there's actually a historical reason for this.
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So 500 years ago, in the past, we spelt words similarly to the way we do today,
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but we pronounced them completely differently.
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And what happened, and this is completely normal, this is completely natural, is we changed our pronunciation over the years.
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But we changed our pronunciation and not our spelling.
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So our spelling is like this old -fashioned reflection of pronunciation.
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But our pronunciation is now modern, so there's this gap between pronunciation and spelling today.
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And that's why English can be so difficult, because we haven't updated our spelling.
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A lot of languages have, but English has never done this, and it's one of the things that I don't like about the language.
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Now, as I mentioned earlier, it's also true that every rule in English has an exception.
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And this is something that can be very frustrating, because the only way to learn these exceptions is to memorize them,
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to learn them individually and to memorize them.
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So as you get more advanced in English, you will have to spend a lot of time memorizing rules, but also exceptions.
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Memorizing spelling, memorizing pronunciation, memorizing tenses, irregular verbs, all that stuff.
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Now, I mentioned earlier that I did have some good news.
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So yes, it can be very, very confusing.
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It can be frustrating to learn all these rules, to learn all these exceptions.
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But the good news is that, as I said before, basic English is relatively simple.
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You don't need to speak perfectly to express your ideas and to get your thoughts across to the other person.
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Now, if you've watched my other videos, or maybe you're a student of mine,
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you'll know that I often say that the purpose of language is not perfection, it's communication.
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So when you speak, when you learn a language, your priority needs to be communicating, getting your ideas to the other person.
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And you can do this without being perfect.
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It's okay to make mistakes.
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Everybody makes mistakes, even native speakers.
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So don't wait to start speaking.
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Don't wait until some magical moment where suddenly you're going to be perfect
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or suddenly you're going to be able to speak without making any mistakes.
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Because that's never going to happen.
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It's impossible.
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You will make mistakes, but there's nothing wrong with that.
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Now, that's not to say that you shouldn't improve your spelling, that you shouldn't improve your pronunciation,
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your grammar, or that you shouldn't learn these rules and these exceptions.
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Because you absolutely should.
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And honestly, you need to if you want to become truly fluent, if you want to improve your writing,
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if you want to improve your English generally.
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But that shouldn't stop you from communicating right now.
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That shouldn't stop you from expressing yourself and expressing your ideas in English.
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Ideally, you should be communicating in English every day.
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You should be speaking, you should be writing, you should be doing something productive in English and at the same time,
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not instead of speaking, but at the same time, simultaneously, you should also be working to improve your spelling,
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your pronunciation, your grammar, learning the rules, learning the exceptions at the same time.
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Not instead or not replacing speaking.
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It's something that should happen at the same time.
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And that's the important thing.
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That's the thing that I want you to take away from this video.
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Yes, English can be difficult.
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English can be stupid.
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And I think it is stupid sometimes.
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But unfortunately, that's just the way it is.
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There's no getting around that.
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And as I said, the good news is that you can still use the language,
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you can still speak, you can still communicate even if you don't speak perfectly, even if you don't have perfect spelling,
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even if you don't have perfect pronunciation.
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Eventually, the more you practice, the more you speak, the more you study the rules, the more you study these exceptions,
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the better your English will become, the more confident you will feel.
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But it's a journey.
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It's a process.
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It's not something that happens overnight.
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So start speaking English today, not next week, not next month, but today.
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Learn the rules.
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Yes, learn the exceptions, but don't focus on them.
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Focus on speaking.
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Anyways, that's it for today's video.
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If you made it this far and you found the lesson useful,
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make sure to leave a like and let me know in the comments what you find most difficult about English.
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And so you don't miss any future lessons from me, don't forget to subscribe to English at the Ready here on YouTube.
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And you can also check out the link in the description
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below to learn more about how I can help you improve your English.
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Hope you have a wonderful day and I'll see you in the next lesson.
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Từ vựng và ghi chú luyện nói cho bài học này
Bài luyện nói này dựa trên video “Why learning English is so difficult”. Những từ được nhắc lại nhiều nhất trong bài: English, learn, pronunciation, word, spelling. Video này có 122 câu và 1446 từ để luyện shadowing. Phần lời nói dài 10:22. Người nói giữ tốc độ đều, khoảng 140 từ mỗi phút, vừa sức để nói đuổi theo. 88% số từ nằm trong 3.000 từ tiếng Anh thông dụng nhất, nên từ vựng dễ theo.
Từ vựng quan trọng trong video
15 từ đáng học trong video, kèm phiên âm và nghĩa:
| Từ | Phiên âm | Nghĩa |
|---|---|---|
| pronunciation danh từ | /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/ | cách phát âm, cách đọc |
| exception danh từ | /əkˈsɛpʃən/ | lệ ngoại, ngoại lệ |
| tense danh từ | /tɛns/ | thì |
| complicated tính từ | /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/ | phức tạp |
| lesson danh từ | /ˈlɛs.ən/ | bài, bài học |
| grammar danh từ | /ˈɡɹæm.ə(ɹ)/ | ngữ pháp, văn phạm |
| encourage động từ | /ɪnˈkʌɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/ | cổ vũ, khích lệ |
| priority danh từ | /pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/ | sự ưu tiên |
| translation danh từ | /tɹænzˈleɪʃən/ | sự thông dịch, phiên dịch |
| spell danh từ | /spɛl/ | thần chú |
| phrase danh từ | /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/ | cụm từ, câu |
| overnight trạng từ | /əʊvə(ɹ)ˈnaɪt/ | qua đêm |
| subscribe động từ | /səbˈskɹaɪb/ | đăng kí |
| perfection danh từ | /pɚˈfɛk.ʃən/ | sự hoàn hảo |
| feminine tính từ | /ˈfɛmɪnɪn/ | nữ giới |
Cụm động từ bạn sẽ nghe
| Từ | Phiên âm | Nghĩa |
|---|---|---|
| check out động từ | tính tiền, trả phòng | |
| go back động từ | trở lại | |
| look up động từ | /ˌlʊk ˈʌp/ | ngước |
Phát âm cần chú ý
Người nói dùng 38 dạng rút gọn, ví dụ don't, you're, shouldn't. Hãy nói theo dạng ngắn đúng như bạn nghe.
- Âm “sh” và “zh”: pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, exception /əkˈsɛpʃən/, translation /tɹænzˈleɪʃən/, reflection /ɹɪˈflɛkʃən/, harsh /ˈhɑɹʃ/
- Từ dài — đặt trọng âm cho đúng: pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, communicate /kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/, complicated /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/, priority /pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/, similarly /ˈsɪm.ə.lə.li/
Những âm người Việt thường gặp khó:
- Cụm phụ âm cuối — đọc đủ từng âm, đừng nuốt âm cuối: tense /tɛns/, pronounce /pɹəˈnaʊns/, confused /kənˈfjuːzd/, harsh /ˈhɑɹʃ/, fluent /ˈfluənt/
- Âm /tʃ/, /dʒ/ và /ʒ/ — tiếng Việt không có, đừng đọc thành “ch” hay “gi”: encourage /ɪnˈkʌɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/, magical /ˈmæd͡ʒ.ɪ.kəl/, individually /ˌɪndɪˈvɪd͡ʒ(u)əli/
- Âm /æ/ — mở miệng rộng hơn âm “e”: grammar /ˈɡɹæm.ə(ɹ)/, translation /tɹænzˈleɪʃən/, magical /ˈmæd͡ʒ.ɪ.kəl/, masculine /ˈmæskjələn/
Cách luyện với video này
- Nghe hết video một lần, chưa cần nói, và ghi lại những từ bạn chưa biết.
- Nói đuổi từng câu ở tốc độ bình thường, lặp lại mỗi câu đến khi nhịp của bạn khớp với người nói.
- Ghi âm giọng mình rồi so với bản gốc, chú ý các từ như pronunciation, exception, tense.
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.