跟讀練習: Times I Plagiarized - 通過影片學習英語口語

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I almost lost a thousand-dollar scholarship because of plagiarism.

Let's talk about that.

Plagiarism.

Adverb. The practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.

Just the word plagiarism sounds like a crime.

Racism, sexism, and plagiarism.

I'm not here to talk about people who repost my comics, JPEG'd, cut my name off, and have the audacity to put their own watermark on, nah nah nah NAH, not that kind of plagiarism.

I'm gonna tell you about all the times that I plagiarized, in school.

And, OK, just off topic, I wanna address something publicly.

I don't go looking through other people's comics and go: "Oh, this comic's funny! I'm gonna redraw it and pass it off as my own!" No, I'm not about that life.

But some of my comics have been very similar to other people's comics.

I read a lot of comics, so it's possible I saw them and then repressed them in my memory and drew them again, or it's possible that it's all a coincidence and me and someone else just came up with the same idea, it happens all the time with other cartoonists, not just me.

Again, I don't purposely take comic ideas and try and pass them off as my own.

Whenever people point out that my comic is a lot like someone else's, I get really sad.

So you guys should check out these other cartoonists, they're really good.

Anyway, I just wanted to say that at the beginning of the video, because I'm gonna be telling you about times that I actually DID plagiarize.

But that was just in school, OK?

I keep plagiarism off the Internet.

Isn't that right, Matthew?

I cheated a bit in school.

An occasional glance at my partner's desk, maybe jot down that important equation on my hand, nothing TOO big.

I had a Math Class where we went to Lunch in the middle of the class, and whenever we had tests, the teacher wouldn't split the test into two parts.

Dff-- Do you expect us NOT to exchange notes?

The first time that I got caught cheating was in 9th grade.

And if you stalk me and watch my old videos, you know that I went to a preparatory school my freshman year.

And in preparatory school, the amount of work they gave you as kids was just STUPID!

So cut me some slack.

In one class, we had to write an essay about something historical? or something?

And I chose to write about the Berlin Wall.

Specifically about people who escaped ACROSS the Berlin Wall.

Now I chose this topic because... I don't know if you know this, but there's a National Geographic documentary about this exact topic.

So I didn't copy and paste anything into my essay, per say.

It's just I told the exact same stories in the exact same order as the documentary, and, OK, I might wrote some things down word for word.

But at least I didn't plagiarize it from Wikipedia, OK?

So I didn't copy and paste anything...

...until I had to write the conclusion of the essay.

And I found this article talking about it, and the article said some things that would've been PERFECT in my essays, sooooooooooo.....

Ctrl + C, Ctrl + V.

I turned it in, I didn't think too much of it, but then when I got it BACK, the conclusion paragraph had been highlighted, and a "see me" was written next to it.

So I had gotten in trouble for plagiarizing the conclusion.

Just the conclusion...

Nothing. Else.

To be honest, I'd kinda forgotten that I copied and pasted the conclusion.

I thought he knew that I basically turned in the script of a documentary.

The teacher who we'll call "Mr. Batman" He took me outside of the classroom, he told me that it was bad that I plagiarized, and he called my parents, that freaking snitch.

My parents got mad at me too.

He gave me a chance to rewrite the essay, and I remember just being so traumatised and stressed out that night.

I kept thinking: "What if he finds the documentary and sees that I practically plagiarized the whole essay?" I ended up rewriting not only the conclusion, but the whole freaking essay.

I turned in the new essay, and I don't think he ever found out that I copied the whole thing.

Except, I did just admit it. And he watches my videos.

Seriously, in April he emailed me and asked if I was the same James that was in his class.

He's the only teacher to ever reach out to me.

And even after all those years, I still didn't tell him that I plagiarized the whole thing.

So... ...hi Mr. Batman.

Uhh, you can't change my grade now, can you?

But that was a good experience for me to have.

It taught me a valuable lesson.

Because I didn't plagiarize a single essay for the rest of High School.

But then Community College rolled around.

I did Community College for a bit, because I couldn't afford university on a Subway payroll.

I took honors and A.P. classes in High School, I was a relatively good student.

Except I didn't take any of the A.P. tests.

So when I went to Community College, I had to take classes that were a step BELOW the classes I took in High School.

What a GREAT way to spend my time!

Senior Year of English, we were writing essays and analyzing poetry.

Freshman Year of College, we were writing movie reviews.

And the teacher didn't even like me, she thought I was a slacker because I was never paying attention.

I didn't take Community College seriously, but it was so easy, I was still getting amazing grades.

On the third semester of Community College, I took a Public Speaking class.

Now I might be an introvert, but I don't have a problem with Public Speaking.

That's part of my job now!

I took the class because I thought it would be an easy A, and I needed a communications credit for my major, I wanted to be a Math teacher, and you may not have noticed, but they publicly speak ALL the time.

So I take the class, I'm like the best person in the class, right.

And for the final we had to give a persuasive speech in front of everyone.

Oh, and by the way, I didn't learn like, ANY tricks to help with Public Speaking.

The whole class was literally just us giving speeches to each other over and over.

So three semesters of doing easy classes and wasting my time, my apathy meters were just off the charts.

I didn't wanna work too hard, so I chose to do my speech on why we should get rid of the penny.

And, I don't know if you know this, but there's this YouTube video made by CGP Grey, that makes great arguments on why we Americans should get rid of the penny.

AGAIN, I didn't copy and paste anything per say, it's just the speech I gave had the exact same arguments in the exact same order as CGP Grey.

OK, it was pretty much a one for one recreation of his whole video.

I'm sorry! I thought we were getting graded on Public Speaking, not writing original speeches!

The teacher caught me, I guess she's a fan of CGP Grey.

And gave me a 0 on the final.

So I ended up getting a D in the class!

And that was the worst grade I got in Community College.

Part of me was like: Pfft!

What-what-whatever.

I don't- I don't care...

This next semester though, I wanted to go to a REAL college.

And still trying to be economical, I found that it was actually cheaper for me to an out of state school, than to go in state.

At this school, they gave scholarships to out of state students who had high enough GPAs and enough credits.

It would've saved me THOUSANDS of dollars.

And I had family living in this state, so that was another reason why I wanted to go to that school.

But here's the thing.

Even with that D, I still had a high enough GPA to get the scholarship, but since I failed, it didn't count as a credit.

So I ended up being ONE credit short for what was required.

PLAGIARIZING WAS GOING TO COST ME THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS!

My options were either: Stay home and do a 1 credit semester of Community College, or beg the university to give me my scholarship anyway.

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During Christmas, my family visited the state the school was in.

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So me and my dad got the chance to go to the school, and basically talk our way into getting the scholarship.

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We talked to five different people, now THAT'S Public Speaking.

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I had to use my persuasive talking skills that I would've learned!

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And all of them were telling us: "There's nothing we can do." But we were talking to one lady, she was telling us the same thing about not being able to do anything.

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She looked at my transcript.

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She said: "Oh, you failed Public Speaking." She looked at it for a bit, she'd type something on her computer, she printed out a piece of paper and handed it to me saying: "It's OK, I'm not good at Public Speaking either." SHI-- SHE THOUGHT I WAS BAD AT PUBLIC SPEAKING!

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She thought I failed 'cause I was insecure or something, and not 'cause I did something WRONG.

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Oh, uhh... ...yeah! I'm just terrible at speaking to the public...

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So really, there WAS something you could do.

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I got the scholarship, because a lady wearing eye shadow took pity on me.

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But I only ended up staying a semester and a half at that school, because my YouTube kicked off.

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And now I'm doing that full-time.

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But I'm still thankful I got the scholarship!

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I hope my Public Speaking teacher could see where I am now.

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I speak in front of MILLIONS of people for my JOB.

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I mean, I can't see them, and I'm just reading everything off a script, in my closet.

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And I didn't get punished for plagiarism!

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I didn't learn my lesson.

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And I didn't learn anything in your class.

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這段影片能幫你提升兩項實用口語技能：一是如何用自然的語氣講述個人經歷，比如像影片中那樣分享“剽竊”的故事，讓表達更有畫面感和代入感；二是學會在口語中巧妙處理“承認錯誤”的場景，比如用輕鬆的口吻坦白過去的不當行為，同時保持對話的流暢性。這些都是 英語口語練習 中很實用的技巧哦。

注意這些發音現象

影片裡有不少連讀和弱讀需要留意。比如“cut me some slack”中，“cut me”連讀成/kʌt miː/，“some slack”弱讀為/səm slæk/；還有“Ctrl + C, Ctrl + V”，口語中會快速連讀，聽起來像/kənˈtrəʊl siː kənˈtrəʊl viː/。這些 連讀和弱讀 能讓你的口語更接近母語者的感覺，適合用來做 英語影子跟讀 練習。

像母語者一樣說話

想要模仿影片中說話者的節奏和重音，關鍵是抓住“講故事”的感覺。比如在講“被老師發現剽竊”的情節時，“He took me outside of the classroom, he told me that it was bad that I plagiarized, and he called my parents, that freaking snitch.” 這裡用了短句和重複的結構，重音落在“took outside”“called my parents”“freaking snitch”上，突出情緒的遞進。你可以試試 shadow speech 方法，跟著影片逐句跟讀，注意模仿這種輕重緩急的變化。

其實 看YouTube學英語 就是這麼簡單，從真實的對話中提煉技巧，再通過影子跟讀不斷練習，你的口語自然會越來越流利。快開啟影片，一起試試吧！

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
定語從句 who / which + 從句 — 補充說明人或事物	people who repost · people who escaped · teacher who we
被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的	had been highlighted · was required
過去進行時 was/were + -ing — 過去某一時刻正在進行的動作	were writing · was never paying · was still getting
用 “should” 提建議 should + 動詞 — 表示應該做的事	should check · should get

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