跟讀練習: I Built a GIANT LEGO Castle… - 通過影片學習英語口語

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This is a LEGO castle.

It has a working portcullis and drawbridge, dungeons, kitchens, cottages, and not one, not two, but three LEGO frogs.

And this… is 10 of them.

I also have a ton of extra bricks, including a thousand of… this brick, this brick, this brick, this brick, this brick, this brick, this brick, French stick, this brick, that brick, those bricks, these bricks, and take a look at all of… these frogs!

The plan is quite simply to build until I run out of pieces, and hopefully that should make a pretty big castle, big enough, jelly-beans crossed, for my two cats, Ralph and Bella.

I’ve previously built Château de Ralph, multi-tiered and much-ignored, followed by Boxingham Palace, much larger but largely boring.

This LEGO castle therefore will complete the trilogy, and since my cats are generally rather fond of my LEGO creations, insert footage of Bella head-butting every LEGO set I’ve ever made here, I’m hoping I can trick them into actually liking this one.

But then the weirdest thing happened.

I laid the first brick, and as if by magic the castle started building itself.

I’m kidding, it was a painfully meticulous process, but with the initial footprint locked in place, building upwards was incredibly satisfying, and very soon, the towers were joined together.

So the towers are connected, I’ve built a portcullis although it’s fixed in position, and I’ve added all these arrow-slits and the used masonry bricks to give it some kind of texture, you can really get a feel for how it’s gonna look now.

Next I built a dining hall, complete with a comically long table, Christmas decorations and a suit of armour, as well as a kitchen in one turret and a drink storage room in the other.

The kitchen has all manner of cooking utensils, but only enough ingredients to make carrot sandwiches.

Deeeeelicious!

The drinks room sees barrels, bottles and goblets galore, and has a very long ladder leading down to the bottom of the castle.

Now you might have noticed that both rooms have an umbrella, and the kitchen even has a mop and bucket in there, and that is because I forgot to build a roof.

Yeah. Lack of roof aside, I was incredibly pleased with how this first section turned out, but it was about to get a whole lot bigger.

First was a simple square tower, built in a spellbindingly spinny timelapse that unfortunately stopped recording halfway through.

Yup, how unsatisfying is that?!

This is what the finished tower looks like anyway, and I gave it a rooftop garden, with a fountain, beehive and tons of overgrown plants.

I then built an identical tower, but this time with two rooms inside.

The lower room is the castle Treasury, overflowing with gold coins, gold bars, and solid gold frogs.

The upper room is a study, including a globe, grandfather clock, cartographer’s writing desk and bookshelf.

I’m really happy with how it turned out, and there’s even a colony of seagulls nesting on the roof.

How cute is that?

So we’re up to an entranceway and two towers, but I think it’s time we build the biggest part of the castle, the keep.

This section alone is already the biggest thing I’ve ever made from LEGO.

It’s huge, and features a cat tunnel through the middle, as well as two rooms, an armoury on one side and a bedroom on the other.

You can probably tell from the cobwebs and bright green carpet that was outdated even in medieval times that the armoury hasn’t been used in a very long time, and that’s because the castle’s occupants are pacifists.

The bedroom sees all the normal furniture, plus the original Van Gogh’s Starry Night painting, a shelf of weird and wonderful artefacts, and a pen with twin lambs who are being hand-reared.

There are then also these thatched cottage sections, adapted from the original castle, and two bell towers.

Now I ran out of windows as I was building this, so I’ve had to use ivy to tactically cover the caps, but other than that I’m delighted with it, it’s enormous!

It finally felt like I was getting somewhere, especially once I built the walls and connected all the sections together.

But before the grand reveal, it’s time for some finishing touches.

I built stables, home to the castle’s horses, plus a farm, with cows, pigs, chickens, and sheep, as well as lots of babies.

I added crops, such as corn, pumpkins, and a hopeful prize-winning carrot, a market, selling fresh produce and baked goods, and the fountain of youth, which appears to have worked a little too well.

Then I built a dragon, and placed him on the roof of the keep.

He’s incredibly fragile and flimsy, which aren’t exactly desirable qualities when describing your castle’s fierce defender.

Next is probably the most important part of the entire castle, a time traveller.

You see being YouTube, some people watching will inevitably have felt the overwhelming urge to smugly point out that for instance, teddy bears weren’t invented until 1902, so how could there possibly be one in a medieval castle?

Well it was the time traveller of course.

Or maybe they can’t resist informing me that Van Gogh didn’t in fact paint starry night until 1889, so I’m wrong.

Nope, they’re wrong, there’s a time traveller, in fact Van Gogh is the time traveller.

Verrassing!

Or that Christmas trees weren’t a thing until the 16th century, nor were pumpkins or sweetcorn grown in Europe, or carrots coloured orange nor did they start growing vertically out of the ground like this until 2064.

It was the time traveller mate, didn’t you see him?

For once, this video is entirely free of inaccuracies- ah, he’s gone.

Well I guess it’s time for that grand reveal then.

It’s crazy to think something this big is made entirely from LEGO, Bella was first, wasting no time in rubbing up against the castle.

And once inside the castle walls, promptly set about attacking the crowd of innocent villagers.

She soon discovered the treats I’d put in the cat tunnel, and that it made a wonderful place to scratch.

But the spikes on the portcullis proved to be an even more satisfying place to scratch her head.

And the rest of her body.

She then attacked the villagers some more, and sat down to admire her destruction.

All in all, I don’t think Bella was too impressed, I know the poor villagers certainly weren’t anyway.

But what would Ralph make of the castle?

He immediately started rubbing his head on the portcullis, with a little too much force.

Why must you destroy the things I love?

He then headed inside, to sit unamusedly in the courtyard, before showing no regard whatsoever for the castle walls and hopping straight over them.

On second thought, I don’t want this to be a cat castle anymore.

I want it to be a Chris castle.

I repaired the damage, rescued the villagers, and enjoyed the castle for myself.

The cats are more than happy with their many other toys, and I was unquestionably delighted with mine.

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在這段影片中，講者展示了他用LEGO積木建造的巨型城堡。從城堡的設計到建設過程，講者用熱情的口吻分享了每一步的細節，生動地描述了城堡的各個部分，比如餐廳、廚房和寶庫等。這種幽默且富有創意的展示方式不僅引人入勝，還為觀眾提供了豐富的資訊和娛樂，適合廣大英語學習者在輕鬆的環境下練習聽力和口語。

日常溝通的五個常用短語

build until I run out of pieces - 一直建到我沒有配件為止
magically started building itself - 好像奇蹟般地自動建成
overflowing with gold coins - 裝滿了金幣
hand-reared lambs - 手工飼養的小羊
it’s enormous! - 它真是巨大!

逐步跟隨練習指南

要有效地進行跟讀練習，您可以按照以下步驟進行：首先，觀看影片並儘量捕捉講者的語調和節奏。在這個階段，您可以使用shadow speak技術，反覆模仿講者的語音和語調。

接下來，暫停影片，針對上面提到的短語進行反覆練習。試著多次大聲朗讀，確保您能準確發音並理解意義。可以利用shadowspeaks的特點，結合影片的上下文，記憶這些短語的用法。

然後，再次觀看影片，觀察講者在表達時的情感和肢體語言，嘗試把這些元素融入您的跟讀中。通過這種shadowspeak練習，您將不僅能提高發音，還能增強英語的語感。

最後，將這些短語嵌入到您的日常交流中，隨時練習，例如和朋友討論LEGO或者其他話題時，使用這些短語。利用看YouTube學英語的資源，選擇您感興趣的內容，讓學習過程變得輕鬆有趣。

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
現在完成時 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去發生但與現在仍有關聯的事	I've ever made · I've built · hasn't been
被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的	were joined · are connected · was outdated

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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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逐步跟隨練習指南

影片中的語法

什麼是跟讀法？