跟讀練習: What is Social Science? - 通過影片學習英語口語
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Social science is really the study of society
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and as social scientists we're trying to understand why society is the way it is, why are there rich people,
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why there poor people, why have we got inequality, what makes a society flourish?
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It's a collection of academic disciplines that are orientated to investigating our or experiences of the human world.
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Social science is the study of people, all the way from their individuals, so their thoughts, feelings and behaviours,
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to groups in society, to the institutions that govern their behaviour.
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So government, markets, economies, all these things capture social sciences.
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It's the science that tries to explore society and understand society.
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It's kind of a nosy Parker's charter, it's how do we all work?
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How do we fit together?
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It encompasses everyday life because you're always interacting with people, so I just think it's a really broad, fascinating thing that kind of everyone will have some kind of innate interest
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and be able to relate to on a daily basis.
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Almost all aspects of society fall under the remit of one or other social sciences.
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Some subjects, if you study them, you're studying really a very narrow set of skills,
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whereas social science gives you a very broad range of skills which is very attractive to a wide range of employers.
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The key thing that distinguishes a social science degree is that you get a set of analytical skills.
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You learn how to approach a problem analytically, you learn some critical thinking skills and these things are marketable.
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It can take you everywhere you want so you can work for governmental organisations
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or for private companies or set up your own business.
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It can take you in a lot of different directions.
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I'm currently working in market research so that's obviously really related to social science because I'm studying people in a marketing perspective.
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It really doesn't narrow your range of options
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and that's one of the very attractive things I think about it
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because employers from industry to commerce through to charities through to
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research there are opportunities for you to go into all of those areas.
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You can do social research for government you can do it for private firms
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and then you can do kind of any kind of job
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that just requires good people skills and being able to think analytically
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and kind of all the things that you get from being a graduate and going to university.
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真實場景：探討社會科學的核心
影片中，講述者圍繞“社會科學是什麼”展開對話，從社會現象分析到學科應用，用通俗語言解釋其內涵與價值。這樣的場景常見於學術討論、求職面試或日常交流，需要清晰表達觀點並結合例項，是練習英語表達邏輯與流暢度的優質素材。
實用表達與搭配
- capture social sciences：涵蓋社會科學（例：政府、市場等話題均能“capture social sciences”）
- broad range of skills：廣泛的技能（社會科學專業能培養“broad range of skills”）
- analytical skills：分析能力（僱主看重“analytical skills”在問題解決中的作用）
- critical thinking skills：批判性思維能力（“critical thinking skills”是社會科學學位的核心優勢）
- marketable：有市場價值的（這些技能在就業中很“marketable”）
影子跟讀挑戰：提升口語流暢度
開啟影片，選擇20秒片段（如“Social science is the study...govern their behaviour”），進行“英語影子跟讀”練習。先聽3遍熟悉節奏，再逐句跟讀，注意模仿語調與重音。完成後，用“shadow speak”方式複述整段內容，錄音對比原版。若想找更多素材，可搜尋“shadowing site”獲取類似對話。堅持10分鐘，你會發現口語連貫性與語感顯著提升。記住，“shadowspeak”的關鍵是“同步”與“模仿”，多練才能掌握！
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。