跟讀練習: #001 Well, hello there engineers - 通過影片學習英語口語

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The ideal engineer is a composite.

He is not a scientist.

He is not a mathematician.

He is not a sociologist or a writer.

But he may use the knowledge and techniques of any or all of these disciplines in solving engineering problems.

Quote by Nathan W.

Daugherty, American civil engineer.

I am Olivia Augustin and this is English for Engineers.

Hello and welcome to the English for Engineers podcast.

I am seriously thrilled to jump into this podcast.

It might sound odd, but I could talk about language almost all day long.

Let me tell you a little bit about myself, as this is the very first episode of my new podcast, and maybe we have never met before.

So who am I, and why should you listen to me at all?

My name is Olivia Augustin, and I'm a certified English teacher and business English coach.

But I'm a civil engineer as well.

Back in the day, I was specialized in infrastructure, and I worked as a project manager for a small but mighty engineering office in Tyrol.

Mighty means they were highly specialized.

And one day we ended up with a project in White Russia in Belarus.

And that was the very first time I was involved in an international project.

But it was also a project that was done in three different languages.

And for the first time in my professional life, I could bring my linguistic skills to the table.

When we got that project in Belarus, I was the one engineer at our office who was fluent in English.

And I also was the one engineer who studied Russian at the University of Innsbruck at that time.

You know, for fun.

Because that's what you do in your spare time.

So I ended up translating all the project documentation from German to English and from German to Russian.

Very exciting times.

And I like to think that was the moment I knew I'm going to work in linguistics one day,

because if there's some way to combine language with systematic thinking, that's the place where you're gonna find me.

There's one sentence I have on my website, and that's, my experience is your advantage.

It sounds very marketing-ish, but what do I wanna say by that?

So why is my experience your advantage?

Because I've been part of the engineering world for about 15 years.

I know your turf.

I understand how challenging it can sometimes be to communicate with clients or subcontractors efficiently,

let alone in a foreign language and across various cultures.

Been there, done that.

So here we are.

My company, which is called Markoda, exists because I understand one thing quite clearly,

and that is that you need to learn business English

and technical English quickly and you want to do that without boredom

and without struggle and without stress and without a grammar-induced headache

because you need this process from start to fluency you need to happen

that smooth and fast so in 2019 when I finally started purely focusing on helping engineers master business English.

Back then, I've already been using my language skills for about 12 years.

And in those 12 years, I helped businesses and organizations to share their brand stories in multiple languages.

I have translated and interpreted before I started coaching 101.

And now that I'm specialized in English for engineers, I can serve big companies and individuals all over Europe and Asia.

And how do I serve them?

Through what?

I like to call it quite practical and no-nonsense lessons.

So while my company, my code is still the new kid on the block, my experience, my passion and definitely my know-how are not.

So even though I love my engineering jobs, my heart was elsewhere.

And that's always been helping engineers to become skilled communicators in English.

That much about me, what are we covering in today's episode besides that super lengthy introduction?

Today I want to share some tricks with you to get you started, or some tips.

Things that you can do even before you decide to take business English courses, even before you book your very first professional business English, technical English lesson.

Because, you know, there are things you can do at home, in your spare time, that will help you tremendously.

Some of the things that I'm mentioning now, that I'm going to mention, are known as immersion technique, in case you want to Google that later.

Number one, I want you to change your evening routine.

Not too much, just slightly.

Every night, when you're in your bathroom and you're brushing your teeth, in your mind, tell yourself what you did that day.

Use your target language, in our case that's English.

use the English you already know and just form the sentences in your mind.

Use the grammar and the vocabulary you already know.

And if there's a word or a certain sentence structure that you want to use, but you don't know how to use it in English,

just substitute that with one word, with one part of the sentence from your mother language.

Just use that one German, that one Dutch, that one Portuguese, that one Chinese word, whatever your mother language is.

So, whenever you brush your teeth, just tell yourself what you did all day long.

And it won't take long and speaking English becomes your second nature.

Because let me tell you what happens.

I'll give you a very basic example.

Let's say you tell yourself, I arrived at the office at 8 a.m.

Then I had a meeting with the, with the, oh man, what's the English word for Baustellenleiter?

But who cares?

You just use the German word.

Then I had a meeting with the Baustellenleiter.

So that was day one.

Day two, you do a recap of your day again while you're brushing your teeth

and you tell yourself this afternoon the Bauleiter called me

and again you just use the German expression for the word you're looking for in English.

By day three you're so annoyed with yourself that you look

that word up that you look up that word in a dictionary.

The dictionary will give you four alternatives most likely for a Bauleiter.

There will be construction supervisor, construction manager, site manager or foreman, depending a little bit on the circumstances.

But there you have it.

By just talking to yourself and getting angry with yourself because it's such a basic word that you didn't know, you learned four new words.

Isn't that amazing?

And that works with almost anything.

The next tip I'm giving you is actually one of my favorites.

And it's fun.

Go to your streaming account, that may be Netflix, that may be Amazon,

whatever is out there, and change your language settings of your favorite show to English audio and subtitles.

So what happens?

You're watching a movie, you're watching a TV series, and you're watching it in English.

So the language input, it's through your ears, you hear it.

and because it's your favorite show, you can easily follow the storyline.

But by having the subtitles in English as well, you also get language input by reading.

That's like double the trouble, but in a good way.

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Number three, listen to the radio.

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Okay, we're doing that, most of us, when we're sitting in the office, when we're driving home, when we commute home, when we are in a car.

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but listen to music that has lyrics with full sentences.

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That cuts out hip-hop and rap.

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So go for country or singer-songwriter stuff.

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Not because that's my favorite kind of music, but because it has lyrics with full sentences.

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And that helps you getting a grip regarding language, regarding sentence structure and word order.

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So in my case, when we moved to the Netherlands ten years ago, it meant that I was listening to Dutch folklore for half a year.

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It was torture, but it worked.

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It was necessary to get the melody of the language into my brain.

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Tip number four.

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Find a study buddy.

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Someone, for example, you can regularly exchange text messages with.

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And hello, autocorrect?

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Your spelling and vocabulary will improve tremendously.

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Alternatively, if your spouse, your partner, is quite good at speaking English and they are willing to help you out.

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You could agree on 10 to 15 minutes a day where you solely speak English.

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So watching TV and listening to the radio is all about language input.

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Self-talk, getting a study buddy, singing along is called language output.

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Both are equally important because high-quality input produces high-quality output.

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If you prefer to re-read that information on a PDF, then I have a little gift for you.

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If you go to marcoda.org slash 5tipsfluency,

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you can download a free PDF resource with a recap of the tips I just gave you.

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But there's a certain point when those DIY techniques will have reached their limit.

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And you need more structure and a system to further grow your business and technical English skills.

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And that's when you need to change your strategy again.

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And you might want to call me, your trusted word nerd, and then we can develop a strategy to reach your goals.

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What can you expect from this podcast in the future?

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The primary reason for this podcast is that I want to provide you with interesting language input.

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I'm going to share tips and tricks regarding technical English and business English and English business communication across cultures.

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That's for sure.

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But I also want to share scientific research that is backing up language learning techniques.

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But because why, that's logical.

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We are engineers.

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Hello.

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And we like to know the why before we do stuff.

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I also plan on interviewing quite interesting people from all over the place.

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so you can get used to different accents and maybe you get used to different ways of seeing the world.

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That would be nice.

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And they always, those guests, they're always going to have a connection with engineering in general,

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of construction, with technical English or with business communication.

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That was it for today's podcast.

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Looking forward to talking to you soon, my friends.

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這節 B2 級別的口語課以影片“Well, hello there engineers”為素材。影片中反覆出現的詞有：English, language, word, engineer, sentence。這段影片共有 142 個句子、1717 個單詞可供跟讀。講話部分時長為 11:57。說話人語速平穩，每分鐘約 144 個詞，很適合跟讀。 85% 的單詞屬於英語最常用的 3,000 詞，其餘的詞建議在練習前先學一下。

影片中的重點詞彙

影片中最難的 15 個單詞，附發音和釋義：

單詞	發音	釋義
podcast 名詞	/ˈpɑdˌkæst/	播客
subtitle 名詞	/ˈsʌbtaɪtəl/	副標題 /副標題
vocabulary 名詞	/vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/	詞匯 /詞彙, 語匯 /語彙
translate 動詞	/tɹænzˈleɪt/	翻譯 /翻譯, 譯 /譯
dictionary 名詞	/ˈdɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi/	хуадян, цыдян
mighty 形容詞	/ˈmaɪti/	強大的
grammar 名詞	/ˈɡɹæm.ə(ɹ)/	語法 /語法, 文法
boredom 名詞	/ˈbɔɹ.dəm/	無聊 /無聊, 乏味
certify 動詞	/ˈsɜː.tɪ.faɪ/	證明 /證明
excite 動詞	/ɪkˈsaɪt/	激動 /激動
fluency 名詞	/ˈfluːənsi/	流暢 /流暢
folklore 名詞	/ˈfoʊk.lɔːɹ/	民俗
linguistics 名詞	/lɪŋˈɡwɪstɪks/	語言學 /語言學, 言語學 /言語學
mathematician 名詞	/ˌmæθ.(ə.)məˈtɪʃ.ən/	數學家 /數學家
sociologist 名詞		社會學家 /社會學家

影片中出現的短語動詞

單詞	發音	釋義
end up 動詞		到達
look forward to 動詞		期待, 嚮往
look up 動詞	/ˌlʊk ˈʌp/	仰, 上看

值得反覆跟讀的句子

影片中簡短而完整的句子，可以直接用在日常對話裡：

Because that's what you do in your spare time.
I'll give you a very basic example.
What can you expect from this podcast in the future?

影片中的語法

說話人最常用的結構，並附上影片中的原話：

結構	影片中的用法
現在完成進行時 have/has been + -ing — 以前開始、現在仍在繼續的動作	I've already been using · that's always been helping
被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的	was specialized · was involved · is called
現在完成時 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去發生但與現在仍有關聯的事	have never met · I've been · have translated

需要注意的發音

說話人用了 30 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 you're, I'm, we're。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。

“th” 音: mathematician /ˌmæθ.(ə.)məˈtɪʃ.ən/, thrill /θɹɪl/
“sh” 和 “zh” 音: specialize /ˈspɛʃəˌlaɪz/, dictionary /ˈdɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi/, immersion /ɪˈmɝʒən/, mathematician /ˌmæθ.(ə.)məˈtɪʃ.ən/, documentation /ˌdɑkjəmɛnˈteɪʃən/
長單詞——注意重音位置: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, dictionary /ˈdɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi/, communicator /kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪtə/, mathematician /ˌmæθ.(ə.)məˈtɪʃ.ən/, alternatively /ɔlˈtɝ.nə.tɪv.li/

中文母語者容易讀錯的音：

/v/ — 不要讀成 /w/，上齒輕觸下唇: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, alternatively /ɔlˈtɝ.nə.tɪv.li/, supervisor /ˈsupɚˌvaɪzɚ/
詞尾子音 — 要讀清楚，後面不要加母音: podcast /ˈpɑdˌkæst/, specialize /ˈspɛʃəˌlaɪz/, recap /ɹiːˈkæp/, translate /tɹænzˈleɪt/, excite /ɪkˈsaɪt/
/r/ 和 /l/ 的區別: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, translate /tɹænzˈleɪt/, folklore /ˈfoʊk.lɔːɹ/, thrill /θɹɪl/, purely /ˈpjʊɹli/

如何用這段影片練習

先完整聽一遍影片，不要開口，記下不認識的單詞。
用正常速度逐句跟讀，每句重複到你的節奏與說話人一致為止。
錄下自己的聲音並與原聲對比，特別注意 podcast, subtitle, vocabulary 這類單詞。

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