跟讀練習: not regretting your life is easy, actually - 通過影片學習英語口語
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So, as someone who's watched two John Green videos and two Hank Green videos on how to live your life, I think I have consumed basically all relevant media on this topic.
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But to be honest, listening to other people telling you how to live your life the right way, no matter how smart you think they are, is kind of like learning how to tie a tie by watching someone tie a tie.
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Especially from this angle, it's not going to work.
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I mean, literally you can't see anything, and all the orientations are reversed, and they're doing whatever with their hands at light speed.
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They could be airbending for all you know and even
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if you stand behind them and watch and pretend it's your hands It's still not your hands doing it.
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So it just doesn't click That's how life is you have
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to actually do a lot of it to get better at it And how do you do more life?
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Well, no one really knows but I can for sure tell you that's not just existing
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Because you can exist for quite a long time without doing anything significant on the other hand
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And if you do more stuff, go to more places, and meet more people, you will fill up your life progress bar faster.
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So if you're not exactly sure what to do with your life, or what dream you want to go after, the easy solution is to just do more life.
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And you'll probably come to some kind of answer much faster
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than someone who's just waiting for an answer to come to them.
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Bro, that's a cop-out answer.
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How?
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You can't just say it's easy actually and then be like, oh just figure it out yourself.
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That's literally a cop-out answer.
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Well actually I think that almost any other singular one-sentence answer would have been a cop-out.
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Like, follow your dreams and never give up.
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For some people, that's all you need to hear and you'd stop
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and know exactly what to do and you'd go be a CEO
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or something and donate to charity and lock people inside burning buildings for entertainment and live happily ever after.
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For other people, following your dreams and never giving up is just bad advice.
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Like if you're 5'8 and exceptionally good at physics but your dream is to play in the NBA, you maybe have a 1 in a million chance of doing it.
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In 999,999 cases, you will start training 6 hours a day, wear down your kneecaps, tear your ACL,
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and give up a stable income just for a chance at maybe getting into the Japanese league.
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But if you had just continued what you were already good at, you know, researching rocket science or something, you probably would have had a happier life.
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if it wasn't necessarily your dream.
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Thank you, Hank Green.
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Some people will be happier going all in on their dreams.
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Other people will be happier going all in on something they already have the tools to do.
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It's your job to figure out where you are on this line.
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But that's not to discourage you from your dreams, because there's actually a really famous video of a Carnegie Mellon computer science professor named Randy Pausch,
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who at age 47 got diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and he got to give one last lecture to a room full of students knowing
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that he only had six months to live.
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So he goes over how, as a child, he had about six specific dreams.
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Some of them were big, some of them were impossible, and others were pretty achievable.
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But in one way or another, he got to achieve, or mostly achieve, all six of them.
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Not only is it pretty entertaining to listen to, but it also just goes to show how achieving stuff early in your life will teach you lessons
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that will make you better at achieving more stuff later.
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And before you know it, one day you look back and you've got like a whole Wikipedia article's worth of achievements.
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By the way, I know this is already a long lecture to watch, but if you ever find a 1 hour 15 minute video with 21 million views,
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that means there's got to be something valuable in there.
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Even later, Randy Pausch actually wrote a book called The Last Lecture, where he basically wrote you an entire guide to achieving your dreams and how he applied it to his life.
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And I know you might have tuned out when I said the word book, At least I tuned myself out when I said it, but lucky for us, there's actually a full guide to the book condensed
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and summarized with an expert analysis on an app called Shortform, today's sponsor.
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For basically any non-fiction book you've ever wanted to read, Shortform has a condensed full guide to that book,
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which you can start reading with literally two or three clicks on your computer or two or three taps on your phone.
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This is like a treasure trove of knowledge that is such good value for what you get out of it.
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Like, I've been using this for over a year and a half, and as someone who used to watch hours and hours of YouTube slop and call it learning, I can now actually pick whatever topic I want
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and read a full guide to a book on that topic at any instant.
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Shortform is the reason I found this book in the first place.
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In fact, it's actually how I discover most books these days, because they add new ones every week, and you can choose pretty much any category you want.
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If you want to try it yourself, right now you can sign up for their 5-day free trial using the link shortform.com slash easy actually
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which will also give you a 20% discount off the annual subscription.
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That's shortform.com slash easy actually.
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The link will be down below.
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Alright then, so hopefully
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so far I've prevented you from going down the standard human life crisis pathway
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which after a bit of thinking I've realized is usually connected to Japan.
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But of course it's a scary thought that eventually you'll have to pick one thing to do with your life, that thing usually being your career.
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It's easy to have this idea that
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when you pick your career by age 25 or something
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that you'll just set up your entire life
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and then ride it out in a simulation until the end with absolutely nothing you can change afterward.
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But in reality there's a lot of things you can't just uproot your entire life to go
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and do but at any time there is still an infinite number of possible things you can do.
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Like maybe you have 50k in student loan debt to become a doctor
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and you don't want to switch out of becoming one, you can still start making YouTube videos or get good at math while studying to be a doctor.
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Once you realize that, you stop worrying about what to do with your life and you start thinking, well of all the possible things I could do today, what do I want to do?
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So there isn't just one singular two step guide that you can follow to live a good life.
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That's like trying to draw an owl in two steps.
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You can't.
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I mean you can draw a pretty good owl with practice
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and time but it's just misleading to try and fit it into two steps.
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So is that it?
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No, there's actually two more things I learned thanks to this video.
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Number one, floss and wear sunscreen.
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This advice isn't really about the floss or the sunscreen, but it's more about realizing that you will get older.
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And the things you do now are deciding the fate of the older you, especially health-wise.
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Flossing and sunscreen are great examples because most people know you're supposed to do them, but you don't really feel any immediate benefit and especially when you're young,
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your skin is fine and your teeth are healthy and it seems like it's going to be that way forever.
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But the you in 30, 40, 50 years, that is who you wear sunscreen for.
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Number two, keep an ongoing memoir of what you do and what you experience.
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Not necessarily a journal, because in a journal you're supposed to write down your daily thoughts
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and feelings and that is quite a lot of effort to be doing every day.
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We've probably all tried it and given up on day two because it was the exact same entry as day one.
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But with the memoir, you only really write down significant things that you do in your life, as well as significant events that happen to you, so that you always have a record of what you have done with your life.
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And I'm not saying it has to be super detailed or even physical.
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It could literally just be an inconspicuously titled Google Doc, written in white text starting on page 2 so
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that nobody knows about it and no one can find it except you and your nearest Google data center.
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If that helped, I'm collecting donations in the form of subscribes to fund the next video.
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為什麼要通過這個影片練習口語？
通過觀看這個影片，您可以深入瞭解生活中的選擇和決定如何影響我們的幸福感。這段影片的講者用輕鬆幽默的方式，分享了許多關於生活的見解，適合用作英語影子跟讀的練習物件。跟隨影片中的講述，不僅能提高您的聽力理解能力，還能增強口語表達的自信心。通過重複模仿講者的語氣和節奏，您將能有效地提升自己的發音和語調，從而更好地與他人交流。
語法與表達在語境中的應用
- “You can exist for quite a long time without doing anything significant” - 該句中“can”和“without”是表達存在與行動之間關係的關鍵單詞，幫助學習者理解如何表達可能性與否定。
- “you'll probably come to some kind of answer” - 使用“probably”增加了句子的不確定性，這在日常對話中非常常見。
- “it just doesn’t click” - 這個表達用以描述某種理解上的障礙，非常適合用來豐富學習者的口語詞彙。
通過理解和模仿這些表達，您可以在shadowspeak練習中更加自然地使用這些句型，提升自己的交流能力。
常見的發音陷阱
在影片中，講者的語速非常快，可能會使學習者在發音上遇到挑戰。特別是如“identify”、“sometimes”、“actually”等詞，容易因為發音不準而導致理解障礙。建議您在練習時，放慢速度，確保每個音節都能正確發出。此外，注意語調的變化，在強調某些句子時，講者的聲音會稍稍上揚，這對於提升您的提高英語發音能力是非常有幫助的。
利用這些技巧和結構，您將能在shadow speak的實踐中，不斷提高自己的英語交流能力。
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 | have consumed · you've ever wanted · I've prevented |
| 被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的 | are reversed · is usually connected |
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。