跟读练习: The IKEA Experience - 通过YouTube学习英语口语
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I'm terrible at decorating.
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I'm terrible at decorating.
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Not in the sense that I have terrible taste, but rather I'm terrible...
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doing anything?
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I have this debilitating habit where right before I hang a picture up on a wall,
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I'll go, Yeah, this spot is perfect!
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I'll just set this on the floor real quick so I remember this is the spot I'm going to hang it up.
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And then that picture will stay on the floor for six months until I finally do hang it up,
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which takes less than five minutes to do so.
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Sometimes though, I'll get into a home decoration overhaul kind of mood.
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Like recently, I've come into the possession of 30 Warrior Cat books.
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Somehow.
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And instead of putting them in a closet next to my 30 Animorph books,
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I decided it was finally time to buy a bookshelf and put all of my classic literature neatly on display.
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After perusing multiple furniture websites and getting overwhelmed with the massive amount of choices and styles,
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and letting my algorithm know I was desperate for a new shelving unit,
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I had a sudden moment of clarity.
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I am spending more time thinking about shelves than I've ever wanted to in my entire life.
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I just need something to hold my cat books.
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Why am I overcomplicating this?
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I should check old reliable IKEA.
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Ooh, this looks nice.
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The Kallix.
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Now, I could just pay to have this thing delivered straight to my door,
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or I could go on a fun adventure filled with meatballs.
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The older you get, the more fun going to IKEA gets.
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Any piece of furniture you can possibly imagine is at IKEA.
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With a ridiculous name.
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In my head, this was going to be the quickest IKEA trip of my life.
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I would eat some meatballs that are so delicious you don't even need spaghetti to go with them.
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Then I would find my Kallax and take it home.
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If I had two birds right now,
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I could totally kill them with one stone. Or meatball.
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But if you know anything about IKEA,
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A quick IKEA trip is an oxymoron.
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The first red flag that this trip was going awry was
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that as I was standing in the checkout line with my food on my lunch tray,
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I couldn't help but notice that even though I asked for the 12-meatball meal, I only counted...
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1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
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6, 7, 8, 9, 10,
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11 meatballs on my plate!
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Now I had to ask myself an important question.
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Am I the type of guy who will step out of line,
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walk back to the server,
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and say, um, I don't know how you Swedes count,
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but here in the States?
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And before I even finished the hypothetical,
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I figured, no, I'm not that type of guy.
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But then like, more minor inconveniences kept happening?
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After I completed my incomplete meal,
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I went to fill up my water bottle at one of those water filling stations.
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But when I put my bottle in,
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the flow of water like, curved to the side?
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But then when I moved my bottle over to where the water was going,
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it wouldn't be under the sensor,
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so I had to do this whole dance where I kept activating and moving my water bottle,
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and by the time my bottle was half full,
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I remember thinking, I wish this machine just didn't work.
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Cause then I would just go,
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oh, guess it doesn't work.
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But now it's making me work for my hydration. But whatever.
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This is all just part of the IKEA experience and why it's such a magical place.
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Right?
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I skipped grabbing a shopping cart and started blazing through all the neatly designed showrooms that I'm usually a huge sucker for.
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Wow.
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I wish my bedroom looked like a Scandinavian child's bedroom.
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I'm not doing any of that today.
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I had one item on my mind,
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and that was the one and only easy to pronounce Kallix.
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Now, imagine my surprise when I turned a corner and saw an entire showroom called the Kallix Collection.
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Maybe if I had been more observant and saw the giant Kallix display at the front of the store,
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or just looked on the website for two more seconds,
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I would have learned that Kallix is like the name of a type of bookshelf.
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And they come in all these different shapes and sizes,
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and oh no, I'm overwhelmed with choices again.
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I saw they were also selling these cubbies that could go into the shelves,
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and I thought, I'm not gonna get a cart.
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If you don't know, Ikea is a one-way street.
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Arrows illuminate the floor indicating the flow of traffic.
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And even though I was robbed of a meatball,
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I was still willing to respect the rules of the road and I did a full lap around the store.
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And I'm super glad I put in the work to fill up my water bottle
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because this mega store was a lot more mega than I remember.
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I kept following the arrows,
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but I swear they were making me go in circles.
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I am not surprised that there is a never-ending IKEA SCP because as you walk through a regular IKEA,
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you definitely get worried that this place will never end.
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But the real problem going through all the showrooms twice was
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that it doubled my chances to see a piece of furniture and go,
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oh I actually could use that.
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There has got to be a Swedish word for going to IKEA for one item
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and then leaving with a thousand dollars worth of furniture.
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There was an end table that I swear had a spotlight shining directly on it.
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I could hear Swedish angels singing.
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This end table would be perfect for my printer.
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Which is currently on the floor.
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So after two laps of the showroom,
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I headed to the giant warehouse to pick up my stuff,
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and there were these shelf dividers I wanted,
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which were ironically at the very back of this long shelf themselves.
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And by this point in my journey,
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I was kinda done playing by IKEA's rules.
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So I just climbed up in there and got him myself.
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What was I supposed to do?
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Ask someone for help and make them crawl up in there?
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No. Now, that amazing end table
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that I wanted for my printer had to be picked up in the order pickup area for some reason.
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I guess they had it in the super secret employee-only warehouse.
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So I showed the guy my receipt
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and my name appeared on a screen along with an estimated time my order would be ready,
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which was in 10 minutes.
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So I waited 10 minutes,
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and the guy never called my name.
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And I thought, I'm not bothered by this.
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It was an estimate.
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It's fine being a few minutes late.
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Then more time passed.
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And by this point, it had been 10 minutes after my estimated 10 minute wait time.
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So I go up to the guy and said,
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listen, I can let the meatball slide.
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But did you forget about me?
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And he was like, oh,
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yeah, we're just waiting on someone who can operate a forklift.
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Do you want me to climb up there?
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I added 45 minutes to my quickest IKEA trip to get something I came into the store not originally wanting.
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I didn't even measure if my printer would fit,
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so I was kind of taking a gamble there,
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but good news, it totally fits, so.
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However, even with all those minor inconveniences I had to deal with,
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something happened in that IKEA that really stuck out to me and,
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dare I say, made the whole trip worth it.
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After I had done my first lap of the showroom and secured a shopping cart,
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I saw this middle-aged woman with who I'm assuming was her mom in a wheelchair
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and she was grabbing all these small items in her bare hands
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and even though I had traveled very far for this shopping cart,
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I asked her, Do you need a shopping cart?
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Oh yes, that would be very helpful, thank you.
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I'm doing a voice, that's not how she sounded.
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After I gave her mine,
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I did just turn around and went against the flow of traffic to grab another shopping cart.
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I'm only running on 11 meatballs here,
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I'm not doing that a third time.
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But then later when I was down in the warehouse,
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I was about to put this big box into my cart
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when that same woman just so happened to be there and asked,
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Do you need any help?
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And it made me realize that a simple act of kindness can be
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so meaningful to someone that it can completely change the type of day they're having.
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Admittedly, I did end up putting that box back because I realized it was in the wrong color.
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I'm sorry for making you crawl up in there, Grandma.
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Sometimes we get so wrapped up in decorating our room
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or scrolling on our phone that we forget the real world is out there.
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So go out and do something nice for someone today.
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make both of you feel a lot better.
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And if you have any pictures just leaning up against a wall,
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go hang them up right now.
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It'll take like two seconds.
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关于本课
在这节课中，您将练习与家居装饰相关的英语口语，特别关注如何表达自己的想法和感受。通过观看视频“宜家体验”的转录，您将提高英语发音，并在与家居装饰、购物和日常生活相关的上下文中练习口语表达。这将有助于您在实际场景中更自信地进行英语口语练习。
关键词汇与短语
- 家居装饰 (Home decoration)
- 肉丸 (Meatballs)
- 购物冒险 (Shopping adventure)
- 选择 (Choices)
- 风格 (Styles)
- 书架 (Bookshelf)
- 拖延 (Procrastination)
- 小麻烦 (Minor inconveniences)
练习技巧
在跟读“宜家体验”的音频时，请注意说话者的语速和语调。由于视频节奏较快，建议您采用以下几种 shadowing 方法，以提高英语口语能力和发音：
- 首先，观看视频并理解内容，然后关闭字幕，尝试复述说话者的每一句话，这将有助于您在 英语口语练习 中跟上速度。
- 将视频暂停，并练习重复短句，帮助您把每个短语的语音和语调融入到自己的说话中，这对于 提高英语发音 非常有效。
- 尝试记录自己说的内容，并与视频中的录音进行比较，注意语音的差异，这样您能针对性地改进您的 shadow speech 技能。
- 定期进行这个练习，并将其纳入您的日常 shadowspeaks 练习中，帮助您在日常生活中更自然地运用英语。
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。