跟讀練習: becoming smart is easy, actually - 通過影片學習英語口語

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So you want to become smart.

In most of the world,

you're told that it takes 12 years of school,

plus 4 years of college,

plus 6 years of graduate school to become smart.

But what you actually become is homeless.

That's not even a joke.

But on the bright side,

when you make a Reddit post about how you can't get a job,

you can do it in perfect English.

If you haven't guessed by the title,

becoming smart is actually very easy.

Even if you think your genetics make you dumb,

If you compare yourself to every other animal, you're actually pretty overpowered.

When people like you and me say we want to get smarter,

it means a bunch of things.

We want to learn useful skills,

ideally skills that make money.

We want to be good at solving problems, hopefully for money.

We want to get better greeds and learn difficult subjects to make more money,

and also to flex on people.

And lastly, we want to sound smart in conversation,

just enough so people respect you,

but not too much to the point where people think you're a nerd.

The problem is, most advice on the internet is so vague and philosophical that even if it works,

the only people who could actually follow it are Oprah and Socrates.

And if you instead look for specific advice that you can actually try right now,

this is what you get.

Eat blueberries cause they're brain food.

Drink black coffee.

Exercise.

Sleep more.

Take IQ tests.

Listen to classical music.

These things sound good, but at some point you have to,

you know, actually learn stuff.

Besides, even in the past,

there have been some geniuses who've spent the whole day sitting at a desk,

getting two to four hours of sleep a day.

So what can you actually do to get smarter?

That's not just the same six brain hacks from a Facebook post copied

and pasted from a WikiHow article inspired by a quote spray-painted on a New York subway wall.

The main thing you need to do is read.

What kind of reading?

It depends.

Fiction is good for learning to read faster,

and it gives you better vocabulary.

Also, if you read a lot of dialogue,

it makes you feel like you have friends.

But most people go straight for non-fiction,

which indeed is the key to being able to casually drop interesting knowledge in conversations.

For example, just by reading this book,

you can come off to anyone in conversation as someone who knows history.

The key is to not be obnoxious about it.

Crazy how he evolved from chimpanzees, right?

Well, actually, evolution is non-linear and several human-like species inhabited Earth simultaneously,

none of which could even be remotely considered as chimpanzees.

While this is considered polite by the standards of a YouTube comment section,

in real life, saying a well actually before proving someone wrong will make you instantly unlikable.

Change the well to an easy, and now we're talking.

Let's redo that conversation.

Crazy how we evolved from chimpanzees, right?

It is crazy, right?

You know, I was reading the other day and apparently humans and chimpanzees I always thought we evolved from them,

but I guess we just evolved side by side.

You can be smart while also being humble and also sounding like you touch grass.

The key is to teach people what you know without making them sound dumb.

This way, people will actually learn from you,

which will make them see you as smart and respectable.

Now, how do you find these books?

It's actually really easy.

You don't have to read the same five books everyone tells you to read.

Just think of a topic you want to learn about.

Like cleaning.

Now Google books about cleaning.

Here's one that looks good.

Usually, these books cost money.

But if your finger slips,

you might accidentally end up on this website.

And you might accidentally search for the title of the book.

And by chance, click on the first link.

And oh no, accidentally downloaded a file.

and opened it with the appropriate ebook viewer?

Well now that you have the book,

you'll also find that not only can you pick out interesting tidbits to use in conversations,

but you can also learn many useful skills.

There are 10 things you should know before you learn a skill.

1. Unless you practice the skill,

your brain will think it's useless and forget it.

2. You only have to know 20% of the knowledge to master 80% of the skill.

So I guess we could just move on.

This is called the learning curve.

It's a graph of how good you get at a skill over time.

As you can see, just by practicing a little bit,

you can make a lot of progress in the beginning.

But you have to practice.

No one ever learned how to tie a tie by watching how to tie a tie.

You only learned how to tie a tie by watching how to tie a tie while tying a tie.

The same applies to reading.

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Books only make you smart if you give your brain a reason to remember the stuff in the book.

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So once you read the chapter on cleaning a bedroom,

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go ahead and clean a bedroom.

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Doesn't even have to be your bedroom.

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Just clean one.

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and now you'll never forget it.

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But let's just imagine that's something that you can't practice right now.

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Like imagine you're reading a book about cars

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and then you see this diagram of how to jumpstart a dead car with a good car.

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Ideally, you'll read about it and then go practice it.

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But not everyone has two cars lying around to practice on.

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But you can still practice it by just imagining.

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Imagine the moment where you'll need to know how to jumpstart a car.

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Put yourself in the situation.

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Find a video and pretend that's your car.

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By imagining the whole process from start to finish,

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you just convinced your brain that you used all that information and now you'll remember it.

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Meanwhile, the person who just looked at the diagram

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and tried to memorize it still won't know what to do if they ever had to jumpstart a car.

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This is how you get smart.

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Use everything you learn and if you can't,

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imagine yourself in the moment where it'll be useful.

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This is basically how the entire school system works.

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You learn a piece of information,

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and because it'll be like 15 years before you actually use it,

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your teacher creates an imaginary situation where that information is useful.

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That is, a test.

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An exam that has questions on that exact piece of information,

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and if you get it wrong, you fail.

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Or in South Korea, you get prison time.

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Just kidding, that's only if you cheat.

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This is usually enough to make your brain at least attempt to remember the information.

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The only problem is, once the test is over,

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your brain says it's not useful anymore, and you forget it.

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Some people think repetition, or spaced repetition,

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or studying in intervals, or mind mapping will help them get better grades and learn faster.

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But in reality, doing practice questions will give you the most results,

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because they simulate the actual situation in which you'll need to use what you learned.

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If you don't have any practice questions,

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make your own, and convince yourself that the stakes are high.

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Like, pretend that you're hanging off a cliff by one arm,

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and someone's there to pull you up,

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but only if you can name all the parts of a human cell.

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Learning information and making it seem useful to your brain is all you need to get smart,

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and this is why textbooks are the S-tier format for becoming smart as fast as possible.

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There's no fluff, no hand-holding,

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no distractions, just pure information and a bunch of practice questions,

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and if you can't solve them,

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you have to flip all the way to page XXXVVIII in the appendix to get help.

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Textbooks aren't for the casual learner,

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because it's not as fun as watching a YouTube video on the topic and forgetting it all an hour later.

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But if you're ever up to the challenge,

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there is a website you might accidentally end up on where you could accidentally download free textbooks on any subject you want.

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But before you do that,

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在現代社會，我們常常被告知，變得聰明需要經過漫長的教育歷程，包括12年的基礎教育，再加上4年的大學教育和6年的研究生學習。然而，這種觀點並不一定準確。本影片提到，即使在教育體系中努力奮鬥，也未必能保證獲得成功與幸福。雖然學習的過程中可能遇到困難，但通過適當的方法，我們依然可以提升自己的智慧。在這裡，我們將探討如何通過簡單的方法來提升自我，尤其是在語言學習方面。

日常溝通的五個關鍵短語

我想變得更聰明。 — 表達您希望改善自己的願望。
這看起來很有趣。 — 當討論新事物時，可以用這個短語來表示興趣。
我應該嘗試學習更多技能。 — 強調學習的意識和行動。
我會通過閱讀來提升自己。 — 說明您打算通過閱讀來增進知識。
有什麼建議嗎？ — 向他人詢問建議，促進交流。

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為了提升英語口語能力，建議學習者採用影子跟讀（shadowing）的方法，這種學習方式能有效幫助理解發音和語調。以下是逐步指南，幫助您應對該影片的挑戰：

分段觀看： 將影片分成小段（例如，每次觀看1-2分鐘），然後反覆播放。
初步理解： 首先理解每句話的意思，確保您能捕捉到關鍵資訊。
跟隨錄音： 開始模仿說話者的語音和語調，儘可能保持一致。
對比聽力： 在練習過程中，關注自己與原聲之間的差距，持續調整。
反覆練習： 每日選擇固定時間段練習影子跟讀，形成良好的學習習慣。

通過以上方法，結合看YouTube學英語的實踐，您將逐步提升英語口語水平。同時，建議在shadowing site上尋找相關資源，進行shadowspeak練習，以加快學習程序。

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
被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的	is read · is considered · is called
定語從句 who / which + 從句 — 補充說明人或事物	people who could · someone who knows · person who just
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	haven't guessed · have been

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