跟读练习: Why is LinkedIn so weird? - 通过视频学习英语口语
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In some ways, the point of LinkedIn is obvious.
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It's not like Instagram, where you're supposed to look cool.
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It's not like Twitter, where you're supposed to be funny.
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And it's not like Facebook, where you're supposed to discover that Harry Styles is a government psyop to turn our kids gay.
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LinkedIn, however, is where you go to network.
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It should be pretty straightforward.
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So why the hell is it so weird?
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I'm outside the New York offices of LinkedIn, The preeminent career platform where people go for job listings, resume building, and toxic thought leadership.
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How microdosing helps me relate to the women in our office.
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At what age should your child start dropshipping?
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It's earlier than you think.
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Let me explain.
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LinkedIn is far and away the most well -known site for hiring.
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Meanwhile, as a social network, its most successful users employ a very...
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Specific tone.
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LinkedIn is mega cringe.
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Cringe.
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Cringe.
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Cringe.
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Cringe.
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I feel like there's like two sides to LinkedIn.
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On one side there is the like digital resume, it's a place where you go to maybe find your next job.
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And then there's the other side of it which is more of a social network.
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Rachel Cardin is a social media consultant and author of the Lincoln Bio newsletter.
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And she had a pretty simple explanation as to why every viral LinkedIn post sounds like Tony Robbins Notes app.
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The LinkedIn algorithm is a lot to blame for that sort of personality.
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You know, celebrating the wins or highlighting a really engaging, you know, post that you did on social media and talking about it and bragging about it.
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The algorithm likes that content and so it feeds more of it.
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Which is how you end up with posts like this CEO crying after laying people off.
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Or this guy asking for a special place on the train for networking.
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Or this guy talking about how he wants to work even after he's won the lottery.
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Or this guy saying there's not a cost -of -living crisis, but a not -knowing -how -to -make -money crisis.
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So why in the hell would anyone want to go viral in this sea of cringe?
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You know, it's so important today for C -level executives to have a presence on LinkedIn, right?
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It's the world's biggest networking platform.
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Julie Livingston is a public relations strategist, host of the PR Pattern podcast, and LinkedIn ghostwriter.
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I think LinkedIn is very different than Facebook or Instagram or Twitter because somehow we take it more seriously.
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And again, I think that's because it was initiated.
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It was started as a business networking platform.
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Julie has built a career off of helping people grow their LinkedIn profiles.
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And she described to us the most effective way to communicate on the platform.
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It sounds like the person is speaking to you.
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Really?
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It sounds like their voice, like they're just having a conversation like you and I are having right now.
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Sure, but some would disagree.
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LinkedIn is where good content goes to die.
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It's the anti -social network where everybody has to be there, nobody wants to be there, and everybody has to post stuff that they don't really want to post there.
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And then a few people post stuff that they know will get engagement there.
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Jack Raines is a writer, business school student, and author of numerous viral LinkedIn posts that parody its cringe voice.
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I'm a curator of vibes.
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I live and die by my ability to post on the internet.
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And yeah, so I guess I'm a professional LinkedIn non -influencer.
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And what kind of quality content does a LinkedIn non -influencer put out?
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It was like a personal finance hack on how to save money living in New York City.
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So I said that every day I go to a different hotel in Manhattan
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and I go eat their continental breakfast and then I sign off on some random room number.
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I don't actually do this, but I wrote on LinkedIn like I did.
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Post it, go to sleep, wake up the next day, over a million views.
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It went viral.
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Jack's parody posts point out an underlying truth about LinkedIn thought leadership.
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Authenticity matters a lot less than being good at writing the specific type of posts that the algorithm is horny for.
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I feel like it exists in such an odd place because of the very obvious acting that happens on there.
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LinkedIn is a platform that's maybe even meant to be your most authentic self, and it feels like people are putting on a performance more than any other platform.
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So if this is the state of LinkedIn now, where is it headed?
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I mean, I think it's going to continue to grow in importance as, you know, we've become a global economy, right?
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I mean, so I think it's going to continue to grow.
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I don't think the algorithm will ever favor just like normal sort of storytelling.
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And so I think we'll see more people emulate the Adam Grants of the world
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and talk like they're experts and that's usually how it all starts it's like
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if you talk like you are a thought leader then you
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are a thought leader i think linkedin has the like it has the best longevity out of all of them
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because it literally won't die everybody on instagram could eventually go to tick tock
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or to another like photo video sharing app twitter could die
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because there could be another better version of twitter but with linkedin
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because it's so entrenched with like the professional job network side of it i do think
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that you're starting to see more and more people post regular content on linkedin so
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while linkedin is the worst social media side now it has
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the most potential to be like the biggest one for both the social platform
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and professional but it's not there yet
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so get ready working world much like dj collett
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and chlamydia linkedin isn't going away anytime soon and if the future of social media doesn't look like TikToks, reels, tweets, or YouTube shorts, at least it's something I'm familiar with.
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Cringe.
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From this conversation, do you think I have what it takes to be a thought leader?
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You know, Dan, I have to say I've been so incredibly impressed by you and the way you address this whole topic.
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I think you do have what it takes.
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Julie, thank you.
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Thank you for saying that.
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I'll pay you the $15 I promised you for saying that later.
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本片段的口语练习目标
本视频对话聚焦于日常讨论中的观点表达与逻辑阐述，适合提升雅思口语练习中“描述现象并分析原因”的能力。通过模仿说话者对LinkedIn的吐槽、专家观点的引用及案例列举，学习者可掌握如何清晰构建论证结构，同时增强在非正式讨论中使用幽默与讽刺语气的流畅度，这对口语考试中的“双向讨论”部分尤为关键。
实用表达库
- “far and away the most well-known”：绝对最知名的
- “toxic thought leadership”：有毒的思想领导力（讽刺表达）
- “feeds more of it”：推送更多类似内容
- “built a career off of”：凭借……建立事业
- “curator of vibes”：氛围营造者（网络流行语）
突破口语弱点
视频中大量使用连读与弱读，如“it's not like”连读为/ɪts nɑːt laɪk/、“sort of”弱读为/sɔːrt əv/，是练习shadow speech的优质素材。学习者可通过shadowing site反复模仿，纠正“逐词发音”的生硬问题，掌握自然语流。此外，对话中讽刺语气的起伏（如“cringe”的重复强调）需注意语调变化，这对提升英语口语练习中的情感表达能力至关重要。建议结合shadowspeaks技巧，先逐句跟读，再整段复述，逐步强化节奏与语气的把控。
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 |
|---|---|
| 现在完成时 have/has + 过去分词 — 过去发生但与现在仍有关联的事 | has built · we've become · I've been |
| 被动语态 be + 过去分词 — 强调发生了什么，而不是谁做的 | was initiated · was started |
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。