跟读练习: How I Make a Living as a Minimalist without a 9 to 5 job - 通过视频学习英语口语
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What does it mean to be financially independent?
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Having the resources to deal with life's ups and downs?
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To have passive income to sustain our current lifestyles?
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To have enough to pay for our expenses without working a full-time job?
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It's common advice to save a percentage of our income and to invest for our future to reach financial independence,
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but I felt like I was blindly following this advice without actually having a goal in mind
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or even considering the path I wanted to take to get to this specific goal.
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If this was what I was working towards, I really wanted to paint a picture of what financial independence looked like for me and my husband.
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To tell you a little bit about myself, I'm 30 years old, married, and we live in one of the most expensive places in the U.S.
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We just paid off our student loans and have no other consumer debt except for our two mortgages.
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We don't have kids, at least not yet, but we both agree to take care of our parents as soon as they retire.
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About two years ago, I made a decision that not only changed my life,
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but put me closer to that financial path I wanted to take.
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Here is my story.
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One of the questions I get asked the most is what I do for a living
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or what do I do for work?
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I know that this is going to be a little bit different than my normal videos, but I thought it was important to share this part of my life that's not always shown on camera
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and hopefully it will give you a more complete picture.
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And please remember that this is just my perspective, my story, my journey, and if you're on a similar path then hopefully this will be helpful for you.
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But if not then hopefully it will just give you an insight to how I'm able to afford this house, this life on Maui, without working a traditional 9-to-5 job.
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So before we get started, a little background story.
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So I moved to Hawaii about six years ago from San Diego, and I only had about a couple of thousand dollars to my name for my previous teaching job.
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I really had no idea what to expect.
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I had never visited Hawaii before, I had never researched into the job market,
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but this was my new home because this is where my husband was.
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So I was busy looking for any kind of job that I thought I could qualify for.
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During this time I was working for an art gallery just to kind of sustain myself
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but I was going through many different interviews to find a job
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that was right for me and I think it was about a month
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or two after I landed a job at a non-profit agency.
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This was kind of a dream job for me because I had a chance to directly work with the community
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and for a cause that I felt really passionate about.
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And through this job, I made a lot of really important connections, which is very important here on Maui.
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I had many roles in this job,
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but my primary role was to develop a curriculum to teach personal finance and real estate to low-income families.
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So I partner with different non-profit agencies
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but also teach a curriculum to our youth and I absolutely fell in love with this job.
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Fast forward to today, I am filled with the company
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but about two years ago I decided to reduce my hours and go part-time.
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Now there's a lot of different reasons for why this happened
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but my boss was really supportive and really encouraging
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and she was able to allow me to be a contractor for the company and also work remotely.
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Mind you, this all happened before 2020 and I'm so glad that I decided to take everything,
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all my curriculum online and teach virtually.
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Because of the steady income and the long employment history, it really helped us to qualify for our mortgages.
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I mean my husband still works full-time
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but having the rental supplementary income really made me feel like
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it was okay for me to step down to part-time job
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so let's talk about my rental income we first bought this condo in 2018
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and we saved about 15 to put down as a down
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payment for this condo a lot of it was from my
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husband's 401k retirement savings some of it was from just our monthly savings
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and at the time we were getting married
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and we specifically requested from our friends and family
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if they were willing and
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if they could to contribute money instead of giving gifts for
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our wedding it took us no time to find this place
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i absolutely loved it it was one of the first open houses that that we went to, but I loved that it was so bohemian.
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I loved that I could walk and bike everywhere from this location, but still it was a fixer-upper and there was a lot of work to do.
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We were really excited to kind of make the place our own and see what we could do with it.
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During this time, my husband and I really wanted to understand real estate better,
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And so we've read so much about real estate investing and how to house hack, how to build equity.
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And almost immediately, we decided that we're going to buy another property.
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So we reduced all of our expenses.
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We stopped eating out, traveling, miscellaneous expenses from our budgets were cut off so
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that we could put that money towards paying down our principal balance on the condo.
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so within a year of owning
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that condo we really built up equity we had paid years worth of mortgage just within
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that one year
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so we decided to pull equity from this condo to use as a down payment for the current house
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that we live in now during this house search we were
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a little bit more savvy we wanted to look for a house with a cottage on the property
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so that we could eventually house hack or have some rental income coming from it.
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So we signed up for every single alert.
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We talked to agents.
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We went to open houses.
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And I think on page eight or page 10 on Zillow, we found a house that really needed a lot of work,
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but had the perfect layout for what we wanted to do.
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For those of you who are not familiar with house hacking, it's basically when you live in one of your multiple units of your investment
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and have renters and the other units to help you pay for the housing expenses.
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So we live upstairs in our three-bedroom house and we rent out the downstairs.
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We also have a cottage in the back that we rent out and of course our initial condo as well.
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To save money, we did all of the renovations ourselves with the exception of cutting down a huge pine tree in the
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and also a plumbing job that needed to be done downstairs.
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I manage the properties.
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If there are any problems with the neighbors, the appliances, the plumbing, electrical, whatever the problem is, I am their first point of contact.
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Also, if there is a vacancy, I am the cleaning person.
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I list it, stage it, sign the lease, and everything else in between.
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Hopefully there is not a lot of high turnovers
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because we absolutely love our tenants right now and we're so thankful for them.
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As you guys might know, my third source of income is from YouTube.
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And YouTube is in itself has multiple streams of income.
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From AdSense, you have sponsorships, you have affiliate links and different programs, you can do merchandising.
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There are so many different opportunities with this route.
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However, I didn't know how long it would take me to reach that stage or if this was going to be sustainable.
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There's a lot of uncertainty going down this path,
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but I'm so happy that I took a chance and now this has become one of my primary source of income.
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What I really love about YouTube is that I can be flexible with my time from beginning to end.
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Making a video, it takes me about 40 hours on average,
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but I love that I have the flexibility of doing it whenever I want to.
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For example, you guys know that I am a night owl, I like to work in the evenings, and it is such a luxury.
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And of course, this isn't possible without you guys, so this is why I am always so thankful and grateful for you guys watching my videos,
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liking them, commenting and sharing.
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I really am thankful for you guys to allow me to create more videos.
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I just want to acknowledge that where I am now, this didn't just happen because of minimalism or just having the right mindset.
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While that might help, it's a lot of different things like the right timing, opportunities, support, just pure luck,
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and also willing to work hard.
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It's just a combination of these factors and I am just so grateful that I'm able to live this lifestyle.
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I hope you guys enjoyed today's video.
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I hope
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that it gave you some insight as to how i'm able to afford living here on maoli i hope
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that i was transparent enough
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if you have any other questions i would love to answer in the comments below as always
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and until next video take care guys and i'll talk to you very soon bye
为什么要通过这个视频练习口语？
在学习英语的过程中，口语表达至关重要。观看这个视频可以帮助你理解如何在实际生活中应用英语，并且体验到如何以最少的工作时间实现经济独立。视频中的演讲者分享了她的个人故事，这让你能在真实的背景下练习语言。通过模仿她的发音和语调，你不仅可以提高口语技巧，还能增强自信心。这种练习被称为shadowing，它能有效提升你的表达能力和理解力。
语法与表达的实际运用
- 直接与社区合作：视频中提到她与社区合作的经历，展示了如何使用短语“直接工作”来强调参与感。
- 有目标的生活方式：演讲者提到“经济独立”的概念，这里使用了“维持生活的经济来源”这样的结构，帮助学习者理解表达目标的重要性。
- 减少工作时间：她选择从全职转为兼职，这一表述中使用了“减少”和“转为”的动词，强调了个人决策的灵活性。
通过分析这些语法和表达，学习者可以在日常对话中灵活使用类似的结构，提高英语发音和流畅度。
常见的发音陷阱
在视频中，某些词汇的发音可能较为困难，尤其是当涉及到英语特有的语调和重音时。比如，“financial independence”这一短语，容易在快速交流中发音不清。发音时要特别注意“independence”的音节分解，以确保正确表达。此外，演讲者偶尔带有地方口音，可能会影响某些单词的发音，学习者在进行shadow speak练习时要特别留意。对于想要提高英语发音的学习者，这些都是需要重点关注的发音陷阱。
总之，通过结合视频内容进行练习，学习者能够更加深刻地理解英语口语的使用方式，提升自己在实际场景中的表达能力。这无疑会帮助你在未来的对话中更加自信流利。
什么是跟读法？
跟读法 (Shadowing) 是一种有科学依据的语言学习技巧，最初开发用于专业口译员的培训，并由多语言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。这个方法简单而强大：您在听英语母语原声的同时立即大声重复——就像是一个延迟1-2秒紧跟说话者的影子。与被动听力或语法练习不同，跟读法强迫您的大脑和口腔肌肉同时处理并模仿真实的讲话模式。研究表明它能显着提高发音准确性，语调，节奏，连读，听力理解和口语流利度——使其成为雅思口语备考和真实英语交流最有效的方法之一。