跟读练习: Unit 4.2: Changed (Vocabulary) | Effortless English || JUN SHARE - 通过YouTube学习英语口语

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Hello, this is AJ.
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Welcome to the vocabulary lesson for changed.
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Okay, let's start.
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In the beginning the woman writes my husband of 39 years so they have been married 39 years my husband of 39 years no longer hugs me no longer means not anymore no longer means in the past yes in the past he did it in the past he did but now he does not so he no longer hugs me hugs hugs means holds h-o-l-d right hug means to hold someone that you like or love to hug okay so her husband does not hug her anymore no longer hugs me or shows me any affection.
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Affection.
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Affection means kindness, love.
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Usually affection means touching, touching somehow maybe kissing maybe hugging maybe holding those are all affection affection so affection means sh how you show your love kissing hugging holding hands those are all affection.
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Okay, so no more affection from him.
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She says, I have seen him through cancer and diabetes.
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Diabetes, diabetes is a blood sugar disease, blood sugar disease, blood sugar problem cancer you probably know cancer cancer is a serious disease serious disease hard to cure cure is c-u-r-e c-u-r-e so cancer is hard to cure difficult to cure so her husband in the past in the past he had cancer and diabetes diabetes she says i have seen him through seen him through cancer and diabetes okay to see someone through means you helped them with right means you stayed with them you stayed with them and you help them.
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So, I have seen him through cancer means I stayed with him and helped him when he had cancer.
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When he had cancer, I did not leave.
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I stayed and I helped him.
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That's what see him through or seen him through means.
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For example, I might say my mom saw me through many diseases.
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Okay.
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When I was a child, I was sick.
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My mom saw me through those diseases, right?
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She stayed with me.
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She took care of me.
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She helped me.
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She saw me through.
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Okay.
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So this wife saw him through cancer and diabetes.
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She stayed with him.
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She helped him.
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Learn the whole phrase to see someone through, right?
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Don't worry about each word.
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It's each word you think oh I don't understand.
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Right?
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Just remember the whole phrase, the three words together.
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To see someone through something, some problem.
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See someone through a problem.
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Okay.
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She says we have four grown children.
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Okay.
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The children are older now, they're adults, and we have been seeing a therapist for a year and a half.
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A therapist.
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A therapist is a professional helper, maybe a psychologist, maybe a family counselor.
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So a therapist helps you with your problems.
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You talk to them and they help you.
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So maybe if you feel bad you say, oh, I feel bad, I'm sad, and the therapist talks to you, helps you feel better.
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So the husband and the wife are going to a therapist, seeing a therapist.
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Seeing here, seeing means meeting, m-e-e-t, meeting or going to, right?
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So sometimes the verb see has a different meaning.
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It means to meet or to go to.
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Sometimes it means to date, like a man and a woman.
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I say I'm seeing her.
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It means I'm dating her.
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I'm going with her.
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I'm meeting her a lot.
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So they're meeting a therapist a lot.
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They're seeing a therapist.
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They started a year and a half ago.
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They go.
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they say we have problems please help us okay so she's then she says he is kind, generous and friendly.
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Okay.
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So her husband is nice but there are no compliments.
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Compliments.
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Compliments.
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A compliment is a nice word or sentence about someone.
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You say something nice to someone.
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For example, you say, Oh, you are very beautiful.
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Okay?
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That sentence, you are very beautiful, that is a compliment.
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a something nice you say to another person.
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It's a compliment.
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So her husband does not say nice things to her now.
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Not anymore.
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No more compliments.
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And also she says there There are no compliments or any of the flirtatious banter we used to enjoy.
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Banter.
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Banter means fun conversation.
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Not serious.
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Not serious.
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Banter is not serious conversation.
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Banter is fun conversation and maybe funny conversation.
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Flirtatious.
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Okay, this comes from flirt.
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To flirt, a verb, to flirt means to attract the opposite sex.
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For example, a man took talks to a woman because she is beautiful.
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He says, oh, I like you.
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You are pretty.
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Come to dinner with me.
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Okay, that we call that flirting.
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Flirting.
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Talking to someone you want a date with talking to someone you are attracted to someone you like so flirtatious It's an adjective.
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So flirtatious banter, the phrase.
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Flirtatious banter means fun conversation about dating or about affection or maybe about sex.
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That's flirtatious banter.
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It's playing, playing with conversation with someone you like.
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Maybe husband and wife, maybe, you know, woman and man.
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We call that flirtatious banter.
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Kind of fun conversation between a man and a woman.
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Okay.
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So but that's not that's not happening now.
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Finally last paragraph she says he swears he's not having an affair.
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Okay the verb to swear to swear here to swear means to promise.
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To promise.
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So he promises he's not having an affair.
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He swears.
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Swear has another meaning.
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So be careful.
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Swear also means to say bad words like shit.
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If you say shit, then you are swearing.
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So that's the second meaning.
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But here, here, swear means to promise.
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To promise.
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He promises, he swears, he's not having an affair.
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Okay, an affair an affair is means an affair means dating another person when you are married So if you are married but you have another girlfriend or boyfriend, then you are having an affair.
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Okay?
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So an affair means seeing an extra girlfriend or boyfriend or meeting an extra girlfriend or boyfriend.
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That's having an affair.
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We use the verb have.
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Having an affair.
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So he promises he's not having an affair.
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He doesn't have another woman.
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and he doesn't know why he has changed he doesn't know why he's not showing affection he's not fun with his wife anymore he doesn't know why and then finally she says perhaps you do you meaning abby or us us the people reading the letter perhaps we know it's got a question okay that is all that is all of the vocabulary she signs this grace in phoenix grace is a woman's name okay grace is a name phoenix is a city phoenix phoenix arizona arizona is the state phoenix is the city and phoenix arizona is in the southwest part of the united states so she lives in phoenix Arizona okay that is all of the vocabulary lesson listen to it many times bye

为什么通过这个视频练习口语?

在这个视频中,我们可以看到夫妻间情感的变化,这提供了一个很好的练习口语的上下文。通过模仿和重复视频中的对话,学习者可以提高自己的语音语调,从中吸收日常对话的用法。通过跟随视频内容,您将能够练习重要的表达方式,比如“我和他一起度过了”或“我们已经看了一个半年的治疗师”,这些句子在日常交流中非常常见。在情感和心理健康的背景下,通过“shadow speech”可以帮助你更好地理解和使用语言,这对雅思口语练习尤为重要。

语法与表达在语境中的应用

视频中的几个关键结构值得注意:

  • “no longer”:这个短语表示过去发生过,但现在不再发生的情况,例如“他不再抱我了”。在口语中使用这个短语可以更流畅地表达转变。
  • “see someone through”:这个表达非常实用,意为在别人面临困难时给予支持和陪伴。可以用在不同的场景中,比如说:“我的母亲陪我度过了许多困难。”
  • “a therapist”:这里提到的“治疗师”是一个很重要的角色,涉及心理健康的对话。通过了解如何在不同的语境中使用这个词,您可以拓宽自己的词汇量。

常见的发音陷阱

在这个视频中,有几个词汇可能对英语学习者来说是发音的挑战:

  • “affection”:这个词可能因为两个“f”音节而让人困惑,正确的发音是/əˈfɛkʃən/。
  • “diabetes” :在这个词中,许多人可能把它读成“diabetis”,而实际上应为/ˌdaɪəˈbiːtiːz/。
  • “therapist” :许多人可能会在发音时加重第一个音节,正确的发音是/ˈθɛrəpɪst/,注意保持轻重音的差别。

通过在视频中反复练习这些词汇,您可以有效地提高英语发音,变得更加自信。在看YouTube学英语的过程中,您能通过这样的方式更好地掌握发音和用法,提升自己的沟通能力。

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。

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