跟讀練習: Stop Looking for a Speaking Partner! Do This Instead - 通過影片學習英語口語
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You're learning English because you want to improve your English speaking skill.
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At the end of the day, you want to speak fluently.
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Isn't that your goal?
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So to do that, you need to speak more often, which means you need to find a speaking partner, right?
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And this is one of the top comments I receive on my YouTube channel.
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How to find a speaking partner.
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But I want to challenge you a little bit.
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Do you really need a speaking partner from day one? or another question.
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Is having a speaking partner the best way to improve your speaking?
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In this video, I want to challenge that and change your mindset.
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You do not need a speaking partner to start improving your speaking skill.
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Don't get me wrong, I am not saying that you do not need to talk to other people.
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In fact, you do, but not from day one.
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So what should I do from day one?
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If you want to be more fluent, there are three things you need to do.
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Number one is to speak a lot more.
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Number two is to get feedback on your mistakes.
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And number three is to work on real conversations with real people.
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Let's start with the first one.
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What is the secret to speaking fluently?
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There is no secret.
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You need to speak more often.
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One of the academics in the English language training field that I admire a lot is Jack C.
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Richards, a full professor in the field of English learning.
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And he has written a series of great books on English speaking, one of which is Speak Now from 1 to 4.
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On the back cover of Speak Now, there's a quote by Jack C.
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Richards himself.
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Here's the quote.
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Time spent on speaking tasks is the single most important factor in developing confident and fluent speaking.
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In other words, what he is trying to say is, if you want to speak better, you need to speak more.
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And it really makes sense.
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I mean, you can apply this to everything.
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If you want to swim better, you need to swim more.
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If you want to play the guitar better, you need to play the guitar more often, right?
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And it's the same thing with speaking.
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Now, here's the confusion.
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When you want to speak a lot, the first thing people start looking for is a speaking partner.
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Hey, Jack, will you be my speaking partner?
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You're Jesse, can I speak English with you?
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Where do I find a speaking partner?
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It's so difficult finding a speaking partner.
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I can't find one.
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So I'm not going to improve my speaking.
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No, you do not need a speaking partner for the first step.
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In fact, having a speaking partner makes it worse.
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Let me tell you what to do.
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You do not need anyone.
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It's just you and technology.
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The first thing I want you to do is to talk about your day out loud.
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Just try to narrate your daily life, what you're doing or what you're going to do next or what you did before.
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Talk to yourself out loud.
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Ah, mmm, this armchair is so comfortable.
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Oh my god.
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Oh, look at that.
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Nice.
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That's a beautiful picture.
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I probably should add another photo here.
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Yeah.
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The next thing I want you to do is shadowing.
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And this is a fantastic technique to get you started.
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Find a video of someone you really like.
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Then play the video or the audio file.
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Listen carefully.
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Pause.
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Repeat.
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Play.
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Listen.
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Pause.
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Let me show you.
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Three years ago in our state of Wisconsin, back in the United States.
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Three years ago in our state in Wisconsin, back in the United States.
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In the United States, a man went into a Sikh temple.
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A man went into a Sikh temple.
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And this is a fantastic activity because not only does this warm up your speaking muscles and engage your speaking muscles,
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it also trains your ear with different accents and improves your pronunciation.
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shadowing is a fantastic technique.
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The next one was one of my favorite things to do
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when I was growing up and trying to improve my English fluency and accent.
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And that is you pick a topic and then you take your phone
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and you start recording yourself talking about that topic for two minutes.
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It doesn't matter if you make mistakes.
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It doesn't matter if you hesitate a lot.
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It doesn't matter if you say a lot.
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That's fine because you are going to listen to that audio file.
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So pick a topic, for example, your favorite food or your last holiday.
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Then on your phone, click record and start talking.
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Yes, my favorite food is a traditional Italian food from the south of Italy, which is called...
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I don't even know what that is called, but that's fine.
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See, even if you forget what you're saying, even if you hesitate, even if you make mistakes or even if you don't find the right words, that's fine.
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record for two minutes play listen to yourself
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and take notes on what you need to improve number four
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is fantastic you need to have a conversation with yourself
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and you are going to cover both parts of the conversation
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hey it's nice to meet you my name is maddie oh
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hey maddie i'm jack nice to meet you where are you from i'm from milan italy
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and you i'm from boston uh actually i'm a student And how about you?
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I'm a mechanical engineer.
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Now remember the first thing you needed to do to speak a lot more?
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These four methods, these four techniques, they cost you nothing.
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Zero.
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Absolutely zero.
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You don't need a speaking partner.
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You basically don't need anything apart from your phone.
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But they give you a lot of speaking opportunities and speaking time.
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So that solves the first problem.
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You need to speak a lot without needing a speaking partner.
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But what's the second one?
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feedback on your mistakes.
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If you only talk to yourself, if you do shadowing, if you listen to your own audio, or if you have an imaginary conversation with yourself,
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nobody's gonna fix your mistakes.
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So you're gonna need what?
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A teacher or a speaking partner?
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None.
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You can use AI.
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The thing is, AI is even better than a human partner in this case.
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Why?
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Because if you're talking to your friend or to someone who's a stranger, they might not be willing to fix your mistakes.
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They may be very nice to you, or they may be very shy, or they may not have the perfect knowledge to help you.
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So if you're talking to AI, AI doesn't care.
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And AI is very accurate when it comes to grammar and language in general.
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So working with AI for your mistakes is even better because it's also available 24-7, right?
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You just need to turn on your laptop, your computer, or your phone,
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open Gemini or ChatGPT or Claude and start talking or start asking for your mistakes.
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It can even be your speaking partner.
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Hi, help me improve my English speaking.
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Of course, I'd be happy to help.
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What kind of practice are you looking for?
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Like conversational flow, pronunciation, grammar, or maybe something else?
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And there are many different tools.
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You can use ChatGPT, you can use Gemini, you can use Cloud, or you can use Pi AI, which is an emotionally intelligent speaking partner.
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It's very cool check their website
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but apart from all these tools we at poc english have built a specific particular ai tool
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that helps you improve your speaking skill
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and it's specifically designed for english students this is something we
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have built for the members of the poc english academy the
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way it works is you just click start click allow
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so it has access to your microphone and then push the button
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and say hello i want to improve my english hi nice to meet you what do you do in the morning
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in the morning i wake up and have a cup of coffee
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nice do you eat breakfast uh yes usually jam and peanut butter sandwich
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What it does is, it speaks with you and at the end of the conversation,
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it gives you full feedback on all the mistakes you made and how to improve them.
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So if you want to try it, you need to become a member of the POC English Academy by clicking on the link above this video
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or scanning this QR code.
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You can do that.
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Okay, so the first step was to speak more and the second was to get feedback on your mistakes.
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Now you are ready for the third, probably one of the most important steps, talking to real people.
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And this is when you need other people to join you.
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You need to have a speaking partner.
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You need to have a couple of people, a community of people to talk to and to have conversations.
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So you see, this came as the third step, not the first step.
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Why?
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Because now is the time to actually connect with people because you have built the confidence speaking to yourself or with AI.
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You have improved your English by asking AI for feedback on your mistakes.
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And now it is time to work on something else.
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What?
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Real conversations.
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And pay attention to this.
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Speaking and conversation.
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These are two different things.
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You can speak and you can practice speaking when you're alone.
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You can speak with AI.
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But if you want to have a conversation with a real person, it is not just English.
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Emotions are involved.
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Feelings are involved.
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You need to read other people's reactions, facial expressions.
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You may get interrupted.
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Or because you're nervous, your heart may start beating faster.
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It may start racing.
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You may need to take a deep breath.
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You may start sweating.
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See, when you're talking to real people, when you're having real conversation, things are different.
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Your brain is not just focusing on the language part of words, grammar, collocations, phrases.
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It is also dealing with the social part of reading in between the lines,
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understanding sarcasm, reading reactions, facial expressions, dealing with the nerves.
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And so now that you have worked on the language part, it is time to combine it with the social skills part.
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Okay, now we get to your question.
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How can I find a speaking partner?
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First of all, find a speaking partner when you've reached the third stage.
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When you've done the solo study part, when you've done the feedback from AI part, now it is time to find people.
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And there are a couple of ways you can do that.
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You can join a language school in your neighborhood or in your area.
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Though the problem is when you go to a physical school in your neighborhood, you will see people from your neighborhood, right?
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Not very international people.
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All of you will share the same language so it is not challenging enough that pushes you towards speaking only English.
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You can join online English classes which are better in my opinion
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because you can find people from different parts of the world
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and one of the things you can do is joining the
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POC English Academy where we have built a fabulous fantastic English
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speaking community of more than 1 000 students who are all improving their English together
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and you can be a member of this community where students talk to each other daily.
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They go to meeting rooms.
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They have Zoom live speaking sessions with our teachers.
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You can join them.
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And again, if you want to do that, QR code or the link.
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I hope you've enjoyed this lesson.
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Now, I have a question.
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Of the three stages we discussed, solo practice, AI feedback, or having real conversations, where exactly are you?
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Are you at the first step and you need to practice more?
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Are you at the second step and you need to improve your grammar and accuracy?
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or are you at the third step?
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You've already covered everything and you just need to speak with real people.
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Let me know in the comments and see you soon.
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Bye.
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你能學到什麼實用口語技巧？
這段影片幫你打破“學口語必須找搭檔”的誤區，教你3個關鍵方法：多開口、改錯誤、練真實對話。其中最實用的是“無搭檔練習法”——用技術輔助，大聲描述日常。比如“我現在在煮咖啡，水快開了”，這能快速提升口語流暢度。此外，影片還強調“shadow speak”（影子跟讀法）的重要性，跟著音訊模仿節奏，比死記硬背更有效。
注意這些發音現象
影片中出現不少連讀和弱讀。比如“want to”會弱讀成/wɑːntə/，“need to”讀成/niːdə/。還有“speak more”的連讀，/spiːk mɔːr/中間幾乎沒有停頓。這些發音細節能讓你的口語更像母語者，用“看YouTube學英語”時可以多留意這類現象，邊聽邊模仿。
像母語者一樣說話：節奏與重音
母語者說話時重音分明，節奏自然。影片裡“Time spent on speaking tasks is the single most important factor”這句話，重音在“Time”“speaking tasks”“single most important”“factor”上，節奏快慢有致。練習時可以用“shadow speech”法，跟著影片逐句跟讀，注意重音和停頓。比如描述一天時，“我早上七點起床”的重音在“七點”，這樣說起來更自然。
其實，“英語口語練習”不一定需要搭檔。每天用30分鐘“shadowspeak”模仿YouTube影片，再加上大聲 narrate 日常，你的口語會悄悄進步。試試吧，你會發現自己比想像中更厲害！
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 | has written · have built · have improved |
| 被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的 | is called · are involved |
| 定語從句 who / which + 從句 — 補充說明人或事物 | often, which means · classes which are · students who are |
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。