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AI apps and language tutors are everywhere these days.
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They promise to make you fluent.
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They promise to make you confident.
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So do they actually work?
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In the apps and tools that I've tried,
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and from what our members have shared with me,
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I've noticed a few things that don't align with true fluency,
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and things that might not give you the confidence that you need in those moments that really matter.
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Hello, hello!
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Welcome back to everyone joining me from all around the world today.
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My name is Emma.
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I'm the founder of HeyLady,
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an online community that connects women through English.
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We bring together women who've learned English as a second language
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to practice speaking in real conversations in a supportive space so
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that we have the confidence to use English in the moments that really matter.
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At work, when we're travelling and in everyday life.
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If you've been learning English for a while now but you still struggle to speak confidently,
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you are in the right place.
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You can join me
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and thousands of others around the world right here every week as we break down the barriers
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that stop you or keep you from speaking confidently in English.
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Alright, let's get into the episode.
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This week's episode was inspired by a question sent by Marina from Brazil.
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Hello Emma.
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I've been seeing so many ads for AI apps to speak English.
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They all say they will correct all my mistakes and help me get fluent and confident faster.
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But you're always telling us that we need to speak with real people.
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So I would like to ask what you think about AI and does it really work?
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Marina, great question.
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And honestly, you're not the only one wondering this right now.
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I think the reason why so many of us are drawn to AI for speaking practice is because it feels,
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it feels safe.
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It's available whenever you want, instantaneously.
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It doesn't get tired.
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It doesn't judge you.
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And it corrects every mistake.
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So for many women, this feels like the perfect solution.
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And in many ways, AI is really helpful,
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especially with generating ideas and answering questions,
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providing role plays, improving the way that you write.
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When you're a beginner, it can be really,
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really helpful to prompt your speaking practice in this way.
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If you're at an intermediate level or higher,
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I think that choosing AI as a way to build your confidence
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and your fluency speaking is something that you need to be a little cautious about.
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So what do I mean by that?
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Well, look, there's a very clear pattern among the thousands of women that we've helped at Hey Lady.
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Women who have arrived with a belief that they need to be correct before they feel confident.
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That their English has to be perfect,
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otherwise they won't be understood or even worse, they might be judged.
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Maybe you can relate to these same thoughts or feelings as well.
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But here's why it's a problem.
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These AI apps that correct you all the time are focused on your accuracy.
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So they're highlighting errors, they're giving you a score,
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they tell you what you got wrong and then they tell you in the next sentence and again and again.
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When you're first learning English, accuracy is really important.
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It's that input.
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You're learning basic grammar, You're learning the words that you need to describe the world around you.
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It gives you that solid foundation.
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But once you move beyond that beginner stage,
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there are so many other skills that become much more useful,
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much more useful than just the input,
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the knowledge on its own.
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By training you to think about grammar rules while you're speaking,
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AI tools are reinforcing the idea that English is a test that you have to pass every time.
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That every single sentence is right or it's wrong.
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There's something to fix or there's not.
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But the thing that I want you to keep in mind is that speaking English,
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having a conversation with someone, that's not an exam.
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It's an exchange.
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We're passing messages.
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We're sharing thoughts and opinions and ideas between each other.
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And just like in your native language,
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that exchange when you're speaking, it's often imperfect.
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You've got to be thinking on your feet and reacting to things.
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You've got to find ways to use the language
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that you already have to find points of connection between you and the person that you're talking to.
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And this is all so you can have a positive experience together,
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a successful experience together.
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We've been doing this since we were kids and we're still doing it today as adults.
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It's this lifelong learning and evolution.
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In natural conversations, if you choose the wrong word or you break a grammar rule,
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the conversation doesn't stop while the other person corrects you, does it?
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Real conversations are often a little bit messy.
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They're often unpredictable.
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And it's about reacting to those different variations or those different moments
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and building up the confidence to be able to do that.
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With AI, you can't practice what happens when someone interrupts you
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or when they can't find the right word or
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when the conversation starts to take an unexpected turn and you feel your face getting hot and your blood rising, right?
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These are the real
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and unescapable moments of communicating in real time with real people who are right there in front of you.
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These moments, the ones when our fear of being judged quickly begins to appear,
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these moments, they are going to happen.
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And in my opinion, speaking with an AI is like a bubble where nothing can go wrong.
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Yes, it might feel comfortable right now, but it's not real.
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So what's the missing piece then?
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Something that I think we can all agree on is that AI is definitely programmed to please us.
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And hey, there's nothing necessarily wrong with that.
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Most of the time, it feels really good to have someone telling you
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that your ideas are great and that you're really awesome.
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I like it as well.
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But in many ways, it's kind of a false or an artificial sense of achievement, right?
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You didn't really get to know each other.
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You didn't truly connect.
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You never persuaded someone to a different point of view.
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That conversation wasn't meaningful.
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It was functional.
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And when you look closely at what makes a conversation meaningful,
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you realize that it's exactly what AI is missing.
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Empathy.
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It can't put itself in your shoes or compare its life to your life experiences.
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It didn't grow up somewhere.
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It can't genuinely share a nostalgic tradition from your home country
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or share what it feels like to celebrate a new child coming into your family.
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Real people bring lived experience and AI can be programmed to predict or to guess the right words to say,
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perhaps what to say when you're feeling tired or grieving or angry or proud,
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but it doesn't understand what it feels like to be excluded
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or to be left out or to feel the joy of finally being included in a conversation.
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It's never actually lived those experiences because it's artificial.
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And one last thought that I have about this is that AI is great at one-to-one,
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but life is not one-to-one.
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Your work meetings, your family dinners,
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social events, they involve groups and each person brings their own personality and tone.
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So navigating that requires experience with other people, different people, different personalities.
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This is where you learn how to read the room.
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This is what we say in English.
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It's where we get to learn from
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social cues or cultural cues of seeing or hearing
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or watching people interact with each other in the spaces in front of us.
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Communicating with a group of people is where so much learning happens,
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so many skills develop, skills that are impossible to develop in one-to-one AI conversations.
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So what's the better path forward?
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The women who've made the biggest breakthroughs in our community are not necessarily the ones with the best grammar
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or the widest knowledge.
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They're the ones who showed up and spoke with lots of different people
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and learned to express their ideas about different topics in different contexts.
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They learned how to connect with their identity and their true self in English.
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They didn't wait until they were perfect.
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They started talking.
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And from there, they grew.
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They gained experience using the language that they already knew,
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that they had inside them already.
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And they proved to themselves,
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Hey, I can be understood.
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I can connect.
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I'm actually having a good time.
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Even if they're making mistakes.
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Improving your accuracy.
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Learning new grammar, more vocabulary,
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more phrasal verbs, more slang.
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All of those things become much easier once you build the capacity
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and the confidence to speak with the language that you already have.
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Here's what I want you to take away from today.
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AI is a tool.
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It's a useful tool.
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And it definitely has a place in language learning.
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But it can't replace the experience of real human interaction, real conversation.
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That's what we're here for, right?
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AI doesn't care about the journey that you're on.
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It doesn't understand the challenges or even the trivial little moments that pop up during your day.
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I know that for many of you,
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taking that first step to start speaking more,
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to speak more regularly, knowing that it's going to be a little messy
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and knowing that you will make mistakes and feel a bit flustered,
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that can be difficult and it can be a little scary.
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It can be something that you put off and off and off.
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But the fear that you feel about speaking to real people is exactly why you need to do it.
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It's where that real growth happens, in the messy middle.
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You don't need more corrections from a robot,
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sorry AI, but you don't need more corrections.
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You don't need to perpetuate that belief that it has to be perfect,
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that you have to fix it.
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Instead, commit to showing up with other real people and work it out together.
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Work on these challenges together.
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That's exactly what happens inside Hey Lady.
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Inside Hey Lady, you can practice with real women who understand exactly how you feel,
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who are working through those same challenges
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or who were exactly where you are right now
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and they know how to make you feel safe and supported
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and encouraged as you are doing something hard and challenging and difficult.
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If you'd like to come and try Hey Lady out,
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you can find the link down in the show notes in the description.
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You can start with a free trial and come along to your first conversation this week,
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tomorrow, right now.
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Thank you so much for being here today.
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I want you to remember that nothing beats real human connections.
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You are perfectly imperfect, just like the rest of us.
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See you next time.

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關於本課

在本課中,您將學習如何在真實的交流環境中提高您的英語口語能力。我們將討論AI應用程式與真實練習的比較,特別是如何在在工作、旅行和日常生活中自信地使用英語。隨著您對口語練習的理解加深,您會發現“shadow speech”這種技術在提升流利度和自信心方面的有效性。同時,本課還將幫助您克服在與他人交流時可能遇到的心理障礙。

關鍵詞彙和短語

  • 流利 (liú lì) - fluent
  • 自信 (zì xìn) - confident
  • 錯誤 (cuò wù) - mistakes
  • 交流 (jiāo liú) - communication
  • 練習 (liàn xí) - practice
  • 真實的人 (zhēn shí de rén) - real people
  • 支援 (zhī chí) - support
  • 障礙 (zhàng ài) - barriers

練習技巧

為了有效利用本課影片中的內容,建議您採用“shadowing”技巧。在觀看影片時,嘗試模仿發言者的語速和語調,特別是在聽到較快的句子時。慢下來並詳細體會每一個單詞的發音,確保您準確表達。同時,您可以使用網路上的“shadowing site”來提升您的“shadow speech”能力,這種方法可幫助您在和其他學習者互動時更加自信。每當您在“看YouTube學英語”或進行其他口語練習時,都可以加強自己的交流能力,逐步克服在溝通中面臨的所有障礙。記住,真正的流利度不僅僅是錯誤的避免,而是通過真實交流來建立自信。

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you've been learning · I've been seeing · We've been doing
被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼,而不是誰做的was inspired · are drawn · won't be understood
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I've tried · have shared · I've noticed
定語從句 who / which + 從句 — 補充說明人或事物Women who have · people who are · ones who showed

什麼是跟讀法?

跟讀法 (Shadowing) 是一種有科學依據的語言學習技巧,最初開發用於專業口譯員的培訓,並由多語言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。這個方法簡單而強大:您在聽英語母語原聲的同時立即大聲重複——就像是一個延遲1-2秒緊跟說話者的影子。與被動聽力或語法練習不同,跟讀法強迫您的大腦和口腔肌肉同時處理並模模擬實的講話模式。研究表明它能顯著提高發音準確性,語調,節奏,連讀,聽力理解和口語流利度——使其成為雅思口語備考和真實英語交流最有效的方法之一。

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