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Yurgaid Reviewer
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Yo, what up?
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And I'm back.
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Thank you very much.
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For those of you who are unsure about the object currently shown behind me,
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you were all staring down the barrel of a fully loaded revolver.
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Much like my friends and I were this past June.
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See, it was at this point that all hopes to start the summer with a bang completely diminished.
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That was not the type of bang that we wanted to start,
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nor end our summer with.
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Now, as bad as I wish I could come up here
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and tell you that the reason the man holding this weapon did not shoot us was
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because we had a civil conversation with him,
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we talked to him in a civil manner,
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and he simply just put his gun away.
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I also wish I could tell you
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that the reason we got into this mess in the first place was due to the sheer insanity
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that this man possessed and that my friends and I did not provoke him whatsoever.
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But as you can imagine, that's not what happened.
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So what essentially happened was this.
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I live in Portland, Oregon, born and raised.
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Out on my basketball court is where I spend most of my days.
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When one particular night, a man who was seemingly up to no good,
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started making trouble in my neighborhood.
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And so, this man approached the fence that separates my basketball court from my yard,
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and started spewing gibberish at us while we were trying to play.
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And, like most rabid teenage boys,
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we were always on the ready to force our masculinity down the throats of our enemies enemies,
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or really anyone for that matter.
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And so this man approached us as we did him and hence began the hostility.
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And it turned out, surprise,
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surprise, he wanted to party.
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Well, we essentially told him that we're not interested and we're also underage and that he should get lost,
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yet he stayed very persistent.
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And I'll admit, regardless of my extensive debate background,
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this man seemed to always have an equally,
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if not more powerful, comeback to the things me and my friends had to say to him.
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Kind of like when we said,
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well, dude, we don't really trust you,
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and so he assured us that he had only done cocaine and shrooms together three times.
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Very impressive.
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Very reassuring.
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And so, as you can see,
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he usually just responded with the things that we had to say to him,
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with how he approached us,
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which was, may I remind you, gibberish.
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And so, getting fed up with each other, we began to argue.
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And this argument quickly escalated to the point where he reached into his backpack
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and pulled out the revolver that you've all become so acquainted with the past couple of minutes.
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And let me tell you,
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there's something very sobering about having a loaded weapon pointed at your face.
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As much as I wish I could tell you,
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the thoughts running through my head during this time were,
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Which die-hard catchphrase should I say once I disarmed this fool and put him a wooshy finger-hold?
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It wasn't.
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All I could really think about was how badly I wanted to run back to my room and hug my mom.
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And so we ran.
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And thankfully, as reality hit us,
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it hit him, and he ran the complete opposite direction.
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I guess somewhere along the lines,
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he sobered up a little bit too
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and realized maybe I shouldn't shoot four 17-year-old kids on their property because they won't do drugs with me.
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No, whatever his reasoning, I'm extremely grateful.
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But it was the lack of civil conversation that resulted in this dangerous situation.
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No one attacked us and held us at gunpoint.
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There was no pre-existing anger fueling this man's desire to threaten us or for us to hurt his feelings.
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Yet none of us, nor the man,
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had the verbal skills necessary to come to a solution that did not conclude in violence.
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And this began to make me wonder why this was.
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Why, when thrown into a foreign situation where neither of us knew each other,
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did we immediately jump into arguing as opposed to discussing?
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And why did we resort to the most unnecessary form of resolution, which is violence?
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And I began to think of all the other situations that could have been solved simply by talking things out.
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See, humans have been given this phenomenal gift,
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which is the ability of fluid communication.
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Granted, we've deducted that we are not the only species capable of communicating our thoughts with one another,
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but we know that no other species has the advanced communication abilities that humans naturally have stored in their brains.
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And with that natural ability,
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the previous generations have continuously blessed us with the creation of language.
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And the 6,500 languages existing today have vastly evolved and been tailored towards us.
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What I mean by this is that through the centuries,
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through the generations, we have exponentially developed our languages to the point of max capability.
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In my opinion, and hopefully the opinion of all of you,
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and many others, verbal communication is a gift that we are all privileged to use to express our most intricate,
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complicated, and complex thoughts and ideas with each other each and every day.
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So what is this?
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What is this?
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Please tell me that man injected me with some of his Loopy syndrome,
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I feel like I'm having a bad trip with all these creepy Simpson looking moth- Oh!
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Faces staring down at me.
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I mean, really people, are we going backwards?
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Because correct me if I'm wrong,
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but don't these look a whole lot like this?
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Ah yes, these are hieroglyphics.
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And for those of you that don't know what they are,
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it's what the Egyptians used to communicate.
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Over 4,000 years ago.
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See, now of course, when I say this,
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I'm not saying that emojis are bad,
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or that they are the sole reason that our generation largely refuses face-to-face communication with each other,
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not at all nor am I saying that I don't use them.
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Heck yeah, I do.
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I love them.
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But when we are using emojis to express over 30 to 40% of our thoughts
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and feelings with each other each and every day?
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Come on.
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Our leaders, for instance, used to always address us as if we were intelligent.
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You know, like this.
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The Gettysburg way.
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And now we're supposed to merely be satisfied with something like this?
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Dating has progressed to the mere action of swiping your finger across the screen.
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We end and begin relationships constantly through our devices.
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We lay in bed and argue with each other,
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staring up at our phones.
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At some point, we need to think,
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did we bring this upon ourselves?
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Now, all of us realize that when it comes to our future,
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whether it be long-term employment or relationships, that communication is key.
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And not unlike what our teachers tell us,
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we know that we cannot Snapchat our way into our career.
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But what I fear most of us don't realize is that verbal communication is not just the ability to speak intelligently.
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What many don't understand is it's a skill like any other that must be practiced.
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Take, for instance, training for a marathon.
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You will never improve if you cut every practice short.
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The equivalency to this in communication is the act of DMing or texting,
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Snapchat, whatever have you.
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See, while the previous generations have had their entire lives to practice and perfect the skill of verbal communication,
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we have become largely reliant on communicating through our phones and technology.
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Now this would not have to be a bad thing
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if the trade-off wasn't our ability to communicate with each other thoughtfully and clearly, but it is.
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Take for instance, I don't know,
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you are going on a date with the person of your dreams,
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or you're on the job interview for the job of a lifetime.
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You've always wanted it.
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Maybe your knees are weak, your arms are heavy.
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Maybe there's vomit on your sweater already.
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And you begin to realize they're not
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going to ask me for my max snap streak score or for me to define myself in 140 characters or less.
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We cannot allow our phones to disconnect us from each other and therefore dampen our skills of communication.
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And I'll admit, I'm a huge hypocrite.
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Most of you know that I Most of you know that I am a huge hypocrite.
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Me standing up here and talking to you about this is me being a huge hypocrite.
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And I'll even go as far as to say
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that my phone has blocked me from more physical conversations than many of you in this room.
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But I'm working on it.
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Each and every day I'm working on it.
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I've been working on it for years.
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And me standing up here and talking to you about this is me working on it.
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And yet, heck, I have my phone right here in my pocket.
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Right here.
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Mmm.
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You gotta hate how with the new phones you just look at it and it just turns on.
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Especially when you have so many notifications, you know?
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Yeah.
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My buddy Joe, my best friend from back home,
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he's live-streaming this right now.
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He's Snapchatting me.
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For those of you who know me,
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you know I'm not one to leave people on red.
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So if you don't mind,
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really quick, as Mr. McPherson did, I just want it.
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Ha ha.
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Oh yeah.
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I love that.
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Pardon me one second.
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What up, bruh?
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Low-key in TED Talk.
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T-T-Y-L.
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Pardon me, excuse me.
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That was embarrassing.
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As you can see, I have this issue.
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Many of you have this issue whether or not you were willing to admit it.
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And if you don't think it's an issue now,
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I challenge you to think into the future,
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maybe a couple years, maybe further,
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maybe when the iPhone 12 comes out, or the Galaxy S20.
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As time progresses, there's going to be more and more ways for us to communicate with each other face-to-face,
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less and less.
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So please, let's find the joy in talking to each other,
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face to face with those that we share this wonderful world with like humans were designed to do.
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And I promise you, you will even have fun doing it.
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Thank you.
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在本课中，学习者将通过观看“技术对沟通的影响”的TEDx演讲，练习提高英语发音和口语表达能力。该视频中的真实对话场景为学习者提供了一个生动的语境，其中涉及对话、推理和人际沟通的许多方面。通过模仿演讲者的语气和节奏，学习者将能够增强他们的英语口语练习，并进行雅思口语练习。
关键词汇和短语
- gibberish（胡言乱语）
- hostility（敌意）
- civil conversation（文明对话）
- trust（信任）
- backpack（背包）
- revolver（左轮手枪）
- persistent（坚持不懈）
- trouble（麻烦）
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在进行英语口语练习时，尤其是在这段视频中，建议采用shadow speech的方式进行训练。在观看视频时，尝试跟随演讲者的语音节奏和语调。该视频的演讲速度适中，且包含多种情感表达，适合学习者进行模仿。利用暂停功能，在听到关键短语时停下并重复，然后将其融入到自己的对话中。
在练习时，可以选择有趣的片段进行反复跟读，这将有助于加强对发音的敏感度，同时提高你的流利度。通过看YouTube学英语的方式，不仅能提升口语能力，还能增强听力理解。记得在每次练习后，尝试与他人进行对话，将所学内容运用到实际中，以便更加深入掌握这些表达方式。
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