跟读练习: Slow English Story Time 💬 I'm an actress! (B1+) - 通过YouTube学习英语口语
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Hello everyone and welcome back to English Cozy Chat,
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Hello everyone and welcome back to English Cozy Chat,
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a slow English podcast which helps you to learn English in a fun and natural way.
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I am Maria
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and today we are going to talk about how I was in a play in Spain
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and how this really made me feel out of my comfort zone.
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Now, to do something outside your comfort zone means to do something that you are not comfortable with.
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Now, where I live in Spain,
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the local language is Catalan,
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and that is a language that I am fluent in.
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However, I am still learning and getting better at it every day.
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So this play that I was in was in Catalan.
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I have never done much theater in my life.
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I really love movies.
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I love plays, but I have not done much acting at all in my life.
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But where I live at the school where my kids go,
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once a year, there is a group of parents that get together to do a play for the students.
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This is organized with the school,
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and they invite parents to volunteer,
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and to volunteer means to offer to do something, usually for free.
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So they ask for volunteers to be in this play.
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I live in Spain and more specifically in Catalonia.
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And Catalonia is a region of Spain where Catalan is the local language.
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So for this play, it is always in Catalan.
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There are many different roles in this play,
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and the roles are the characters of the play,
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but there is a big group of townspeople.
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And these townspeople have a very important role and a fun role as well.
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and in years past I have always been one of the townspeople mainly because the townspeople don't have to speak.
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Now I am fluent in Catalan.
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However, I am still learning and trying to get better every day,
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but I have never felt comfortable speaking in a large group situation in Catalan.
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So that's why I always just chose to be a townsperson,
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which is a smaller role in the play.
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But this year, I volunteered to have a speaking part.
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They were looking for people to have these larger roles and were having trouble finding people who wanted to talk.
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So I decided that I would volunteer to have a speaking part.
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Now, this was very big for me because Catalan is not my language,
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and I didn't really know how I would do.
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But I thought, hey, why not?
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Why not just try?
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So we had many rehearsals,
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and rehearsals are practices when everyone gets together and practices the play.
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We had many rehearsals, so I had many opportunities to practice.
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And it's actually really funny because we had many practices and I always practiced my speaking part.
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And on the very last practice before the play,
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there was a new person there who,
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she is my friend, but this was the first day that she had come to the rehearsal.
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and after we practiced the play once,
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she pulled me aside and said,
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Maria, this word is pronounced like this.
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It's not like this.
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I was pronouncing a word completely wrong and there had been several times
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when that everyone listened to me and they knew I was saying it wrong,
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but they didn't correct me,
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which I find so funny because if I was in an English play
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and I knew that someone who was not a native English speaker was saying a word completely wrong,
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I would tell them just because that person wants to say that word right.
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And it's important to let them know that it is pronounced in a different way.
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Now, I was so happy that my friend told me this before the play
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because everyone would have seen me pronounce that word wrong and very wrong.
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I was completely wrong in the way that I was saying it.
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So I was really happy that she told me.
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And also, I was very surprised that no one else told me this when they knew I was saying it wrong.
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There were always around 30 people watching me say my lines and listening to me saying this word wrong,
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and no one told me.
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I think people are more concerned that they don't want to embarrass that person.
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Maybe they would think that I would be offended or embarrassed when they told me that.
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But the truth is, if I am learning a language,
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I want to speak it correctly,
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especially if I am in a play in front of lots of other people.
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So I just found this kind of funny and I was very glad
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that my friend corrected me before we had the actual play.
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Okay, so now on to how the rest of the play went.
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In one of my recent episodes,
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I was explaining how I had to make up a dance choreography.
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And I didn't actually explain why,
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but it was for this play.
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the townspeople of the play
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and myself did a dance at the end of the play to a very popular song
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and at the end of the play we did the dance
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and then all of the kids got up and were dancing and we were dancing with them.
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And it was just a really,
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really fun moment that I will honestly remember forever.
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And also when we did the actual play,
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I felt really proud because I thought I did a good job of saying my lines and I really felt good.
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Beforehand, I was a little bit nervous because we were doing the play in front of the whole school.
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but when I got out there I really felt like I did a good job and so did everyone else.
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Being in this play really put me outside of my comfort zone.
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To do something outside of your comfort zone is to do something that you're not comfortable with.
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And since Catalan is a language that I'm still learning,
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doing this play was definitely outside of my comfort zone.
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and after the play was finished,
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I really felt so proud because I felt like I did a good job
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and I was also happy that my kids saw me do this.
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They know that Catalan is not my first language
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and they were proud to see their mom up there doing something really different and pushing herself,
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which I was.
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When you do something outside of your comfort zone,
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it can make you feel extra proud in the end.
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If you never push yourself to do something that makes you feel a little bit uncomfortable,
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maybe you don't grow as much as you really have the potential to do.
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Every time that I do something outside of my comfort zone,
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I always feel much better afterwards.
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Maybe I feel nervous beforehand,
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but afterwards I always feel really good.
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So in the end, I am really happy that I did this.
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It was so much fun with all of the parents at the end of the play
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and to see how much the kids really enjoyed it.
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And it just made me feel really proud.
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I hope this video inspires you to do something outside of your comfort zone.
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Let me know in the comments if there's anything that you have done that's outside of your comfort zone.
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Thank you all so much for watching or listening.
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I hope you have a wonderful day,
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and I cannot wait to see you in the next episode.
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Bye!
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