跟读练习: Why being bored is a good thing - 通过视频学习英语口语
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Boredom.
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A state of being that's gotten a pretty bad rap over the years.
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But as I'm continuously trying to navigate this super connected world we're now living in, the constant consumption of media has not only left me feeling pretty drained,
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but the more I think that being bored isn't such a bad thing.
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In fact, from a creative standpoint, it might actually be a really good thing.
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Just hear me out.
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I feel like we live in a very overstimulated world.
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And lately it feels like a little much.
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Changes to Instagram, a growing trend in the US.
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We're always being bombarded with information.
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From social media platforms, keeping up with the trends, what should we make and who should we watch.
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It's all here to keep us busy and scrolling.
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Jumping from one device to another and often not taking breaks for extended periods of time.
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to be entertained could turn into a life that's distracted.
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I sense that most people have encountered this at some point or another but lately just everything has been feeling like noise.
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Everything online is starting to look like a copy of one another
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and as someone who's caught between trying to make sense of it
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while also barely keeping up with the pace of the world, it can get a little...
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overwhelming.
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and I think it's affecting my creativity.
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you A while in my search for an antidote, there was one idea I became increasingly curious about.
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It started when I read Austin Kleon's book, "Steal Like an Artist." In the book, he says, "Take time to be bored.
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Creative people need time to just sit around
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and do nothing." I want to see what happens when I embrace this idea of boredom over the next couple of days.
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If there is any difference at all in the creativity, in my ideas.
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Did I need a detox?
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Did I not?
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Did I hate it?
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Was it useless?
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Just for an hour or two each day, how hard can that be?
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So it's day one and I went a good, I was doing good.
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I was doing good for the first two minutes, and then I just reached for my phone.
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out of habit.
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I'm literally purposely doing this experiment.
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The habit of just like picking up and checking our phones when we're literally doing nothing.
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crazy.
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So yeah, if that's a any indication how things are going.
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You see, an interesting thing happens when you're in a less stimulated state.
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Our minds are able to wander, to get creative with problem -solving, and let one storm in ideas find the space to plant roots and grow.
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Just like when we get our best ideas in the shower, or think of new characters for our book on our commute, our body goes on autopilot,
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and our minds go somewhere else.
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Being bored literally has to be laying around doing nothing.
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I think that it counts as washing the dishes and folding your laundry, going for a walk, normal mundane everyday things,
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just without reaching for your phone to help pass the time.
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It's interesting that boredom is not typically something that's pursued, but many of the world's problems are because there is just too much of everything.
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content.
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at least in the beginning.
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Okay, so I have been really enjoying this experiment so far.
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It's only been three days, but I feel like there is
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something about needing to fill the silence and also being alone with your thoughts it's almost It can be uncomfortable.
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It has just been really nice to not be living from screen to screen all the time
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and instead feeling like I'm living in the real world.
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It's also been really nice to just have the space to think, just allowing you to have that designated time.
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I know that sounds so weird because creativity is such an organic thing, but we live in such a busy world.
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Our schedules are often filled up from like hour to hour.
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This is also feeling a lot like a dopamine detox.
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Mainly because I'm doing this like every single day.
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Now that I'm doing this experiment, I'm realizing like how much it actually plays into my daily life.
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I think that the more society becomes obsessed with productivity, the more we need to search for small pockets of time to be bored.
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But it's not just about doing nothing, but I find it's more so choosing to be observant of the world around you every now and then.
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Being left to my thoughts without media and posts telling me how to feel.
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every time I need to fill the silence.
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but instead embracing it.
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Sometimes it feels like boredom can be one of the most undesirable states you can be in.
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We go so much out of our way to occupy our time with other work or projects, and maybe there are some things we can learn from it.
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Alright, so I've been doing this for about a week now.
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It got easier as the days went on.
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I started to embrace it more.
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It's been really interesting to see new ideas and also old ideas.
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Just ponderings that randomly have come up one
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or two hours every afternoon may not seem like a lot
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but I think that there's a real compound effect there to just be intentional with
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that time to embrace this boredom and this mundaneness and see what comes up from that.
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We often already have everything we need to think up new ideas or find inspiration around us.
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But I think it's a matter of really creating the time to facilitate that.
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Not too much and not too little of it, but just enough that when we do to our creative work we feel ready to.
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So this isn't really a solution or a groundbreaking discovery, but perhaps an alternate perspective on nurturing our creativity.
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As Steve Jobs once said, boredom allows one to indulge in curiosity, and out of curiosity comes everything.
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I've been on hold on baby with you.
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誰適合這支影片？
這支探討「無聊好處」的影片超適合中級英語學習者！無論你想提升口語表達流暢度，還是想學會用英語講述生活感悟，它都能幫你。影片用詞貼近日常，句子結構不複雜，卻藏著很多生動表達，非常適合練習shadow speak（影子跟讀）——跟著 speaker 的語調和節奏模仿，輕鬆養成英語思維！
必學實用詞彙與短語
- gotten a bad rap：背負壞名聲。影片開頭說「無聊多年來背負壞名聲」，超貼切！
- overstimulated：過度刺激。描述當下資訊爆炸的狀態，比如「我們生活在過度刺激的世界」。
- antidote：解藥。片中指對抗資訊焦慮的方法，「尋找解藥」可以說 search for an antidote。
- mundane：平凡的。用來形容日常瑣事，「平凡的日常」就是 mundane everyday things。
如何模仿一口地道口音？
這位 speaker 的口音清晰自然，超適合練習！重點抓兩點：節奏和弱讀。比如影片中「It's all here to keep us busy and scrolling」，其中「to」弱讀成 /tə/，「and」輕讀成 /ən/，這樣說起來更流暢。另外，注意「overwhelming」的發音，重音在第二個音節 /ˌəʊvəˈwelmɪŋ/，跟著讀幾遍，馬上有進步！
趕快打開影片，試試shadowspeak練習法——播放一句，暫停，立刻跟讀。堅持10分鐘，你會發現自己的口語越來越自然！別忘了，無聊的時候正是練英語的好機會，讓「無聊」變成你的學習動力吧！
视频中的语法
说话人最常用的结构，并附上视频中的原话：
| 结构 | 视频中的用法 |
|---|---|
| 现在完成进行时 have/has been + -ing — 以前开始、现在仍在继续的动作 | has been feeling · I've been doing |
| 现在完成时 have/has + 过去分词 — 过去发生但与现在仍有关联的事 | has not only left · have encountered · have been |
| 被动语态 be + 过去分词 — 强调发生了什么，而不是谁做的 | being bombarded · be entertained · are often filled |
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。