hello students welcome back great to see you here this is the second lesson in the
tips and tricks series to learn english by yourself today i'll teach you about learning
english through mirroring what is mirroring have a look what i made new friends get over it what
i made new friends get over it sorry about my acting but that was an example of mirroring
many english learners say it's difficult to find an english-speaking partner we all know
having a partner to practice with is very important but there are some ways that you
can learn english speaking by yourself the last video i made in a series was about learning
english through shadowing and you can find a link to that video in the description shadowing
and mirroring are not the same i'll explain that later what is mirroring bearing is a careful study
of a video of a model speaker of english including both verbal what they're saying and non-verbal
their body language those behaviors as the learner you watch the video and practice mirroring
or repeating exactly what the speaker is doing you mirror what the model does
in a piece of video i suggest using shorter video clips when you first start mirroring
later you can add longer clips mirroring takes time and practice usually about one to three
weeks for each piece of video that you want to mirror so who should you mirror the model
you choose should be either a native english speaker or a highly intelligible non-native
english speaker the model doesn't have to be a native english speaker but they should have a
high level of english you should choose someone that you enjoy watching like a youtube host
or an actor or actress or a comedian so how do you mirror first analyze what you are watching
start by understanding what the video is about what's the big picture of the video ask yourself
who is the speaker what are they trying to do what are they trying to achieve in the video
are they trying to teach you something are they trying to inspire you are they trying to
persuade you what speaking characteristics is your model using what's the speed of their speaking
fast slow what's the volume of their speaking is it loud is it soft do they
take pauses when they're speaking like with the audio you study and shadowing when mirroring
it is important to understand what is being said make sure you understand what is being said
and the vocabulary that you are listening to now you can analyze a short segment
of your model's speech focus on stress rhythm intonation pronunciation what is rhythm rhythm
is the pacing of english is there a certain rhythm that your model repeats when speaking spend time
practicing your model's video for memorization and then adding nonverbal gestures and movements
facial expressions to fully mirror the model mirroring takes time and practice mirroring
is different than shadowing shadowing uses audio that you repeat back after a short delay mirroring
you're studying the movements of the speaker how they speak mirroring takes time why should you
include mirroring in your study plan you can improve your rhythm intonation your non-verbal
communication right body language when you're speaking english and overall confidence when
speaking english you can see how the different aspects of pronunciation work together to make the
speaker more effective when speaking and if you do mirroring write it's very enjoyable let me show
you one more example of mirroring live through three supposed end of days it's all horseshit
i've lived through three supposed end of days it's all horseshit as you can see
the video i just modeled the speaker takes a long pause so i took a long pause i mirrored
that pause now you know more about mirroring in english i'll see you in the next video