跟讀練習: Improve Your Speaking - 通過影片學習英語口語
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I'm thinking, what's the most important thing you can do in the next 10 days to improve your speaking?
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And for this, Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book three years ago,
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Outliers, Los que sobresalen.
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What does it take to achieve world class?
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What does it take to be truly excellent as a musician, as a sportsman, as a speaker?
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And he looked at multiple different cases.
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Is it talent?
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Do Irish people just have this innate mack
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that they can be great public speakers and people from Chile will never get there?
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The answer is no. What is it that leads to excellence in programming?
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And the answer is 10,000 hours of practice.
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No matter where you start from, no matter how talented a kid was in school,
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it's the kid that practices eight hours a day that's now playing as a soloist with the top orchestras of the world.
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Leo Messi wasn't born with better right knee and a better left foot than anyone else in the world.
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It's what he chose to do every day after school, every weekend, that means he is where he is today.
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So the most important commitment you can make to yourself, you can listen to all of this and if you don't do this it's a waste.
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So as you're considering that 6,000 euros that you've mentally paid and you're thinking how do I get a return on investment?
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every laptop comes with a webcam I
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Want each of you to decide that you're going to spend three minutes every day for the next ten days
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You can call them work days.
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So you don't have to do it the weekend
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but three minutes every day start a little program that records and and explain the product, explain your CV, explain your vision,
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explain what a good life.
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One speech
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that I get my students in the essay to do towards
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the end is a value you would share with a child as the basis of a good life.
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So day 10, that's your challenge.
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Three minutes, your answer to what value would you share with a child
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as the basis for a good life
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so nothing I can do here is going to turn you
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into great speaker no amount of watching YouTube videos of Bill
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Clinton is going to turn you into Bill Clinton no amount of reading is going to turn you into writer
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only by speaking but you turn into a speaker
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but there's people who are 55 years old they've been in more than 10,000 hours worth of meetings
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and they're crap at meetings.
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The 23-year-old who started yesterday is better at making meetings run effectively.
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So it's not just about 10,000 hours.
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It's about deciding it's important, deciding you can get better.
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And the video allows you the feedback that you can watch and see.
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Now here there was a pottery class in the United States, ceramics, making pots.
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And the teacher took half of the class and she said, at the end of this term,
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your grade will be given on the weight of pots that you create.
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So here is a weighing scales.
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At the end of the class, whoever's total production of pots weighs the most will get the highest grade.
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To the other half of the class, she said, you'll be evaluated on your most finished piece of pottery.
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the group
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that were told sheer weight what was their way of carrying
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on every day they produced five six seven pots they tried
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random experiments they tried weird things they tried different ideas
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but their hands were on clay from the first moment the group
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that were told they would be evaluated on the most finished pot.
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They read, they thought, they talked about concepts.
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They talked about philosophical ideas.
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They read more.
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They went to galleries to look at other people's pots.
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And the first time they touched clay was about three days before the end of the class.
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All of the best pots were made by the group that focused on weight so
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your way of being in the pottery group
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that was measured on weight is get the webcam going everyday
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if you do it for 10 days you'll get a lot better if you keep it going
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3 minutes doesn't get you very quickly to 10,000 hours
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10,000 hours 8 hours a day is 5 years
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four hours a day ten years two hours a day twenty years
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but we're all going to still be alive twenty years from now even thirty years from now imagine
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if you set a target of really practicing trying trial
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and they say the greatest musicians when you listen to them practice it's horrible
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when I play piano I play the pieces I know the greatest musicians
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when they're practicing are trying things they don't already know they're trying experiments they're trying random things
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so with the webcam don't just give your perfect speech try random things
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because no one else has to see it you can delete it rather quickly
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but just be careful no one gets to your PC
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while you've got all the silly ones left on the desktop
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so the first answer is this is a waste of time
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if you don't decide to dedicate three minutes for the next ten days to put into practice, to experiment with some of the ideas.
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本課的詞彙與口語要點
這節 B2 級別的口語課以影片“Improve Your Speaking”為素材。 影片中反覆出現的詞有：pot, speaker, explain, weight, practice。 這段影片共有 74 個句子、893 個單詞可供跟讀。 講話部分時長為 6:24。 說話人語速平穩，每分鐘約 140 個詞，很適合跟讀。 87% 的單詞屬於英語最常用的 3,000 詞，詞彙容易理解。
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 |
|---|---|---|
| webcam 名詞 | /ˈwɛbˌkæm/ | 攝像頭 /攝像頭, 網路攝影機 /網路攝影機 |
| pottery 名詞 | /ˈpɑtəɹi/ | 陶器, 瓦器 |
| musician 名詞 | /mjuˈzɪʃən/ | 音樂家 /音樂家 |
| weigh 動詞 | /weɪ/ | 稱重 /稱重 |
| evaluate 動詞 | /ɪˈvaljʊeɪt/ | 評價 /評價 |
| innate 形容詞 | /ɪˈneɪt/ | 固有, 天生 |
| soloist 名詞 | 獨唱者 /獨唱者 | |
| sportsman 名詞 | 運動員 /運動員 | |
| dedicate 動詞 | /ˈdɛdɪˌkeɪt/ | 奉獻 /奉獻 |
| ceramic 名詞 | /səˈɹæmɪk/ | 陶瓷 |
| desktop 名詞 | /ˈdɛsktɒp/ | 桌面 |
| sheer 形容詞 | /ʃɪɚ/ | 透明 |
| orchestra 名詞 | /ˈɔː.kɪs.tɹə/ | 樂團 /樂團, 樂隊 /樂隊 |
| excellence 名詞 | /ˈɛksələns/ | 卓越 |
| euro 名詞 | /ˈjʊɹoʊ/ | 歐元 /歐元 |
需要注意的發音
說話人用了 21 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 don't, they're, you're。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。
- “sh” 和 “zh” 音: musician /mjuˈzɪʃən/, sheer /ʃɪɚ/
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 webcam, pottery, musician 這類單詞。
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。