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https://tw.voicetube.com/videos/18348?ref=toeic

Summary:

- "Learning to speak English through imitation" can help improve many aspects of your spoken english: sentence structure, grammar, vocabulary, to express your thoughts and ideas effectively.

- Here's how it works: you listen to a conversation, a story, or some kind of speech, and then try to deliver that speech in your own words.

- There're other ways: instead of imitating very small portions of speech like phrases and short sentences, you can imitate larger portions of speech.

- Another approach is to simply listen to the whole speech and then try to deliver that entire speech yourself.

- I recommend is to combine them all, and I call this approach easy-to-hard imitation.

- This technique offers many benefits. You get to listen and imitate correct English, which helps you learn to form sentences properly. 

- You get to learn idioms, expressions, and other speaking patterns that are used in day-to-day conversations.

- you get to learn grammar. When you imitate other people, you're learning grammar through a process called implicit learning. This is the process where the learning happens without your awareness.

vocabulary:

aspect - Which aspects of the job do you most enjoy?

imitation - It's not real silk - it's just imitation.

pretend - [ + (that) ] He pretended (that) he didn't mind, but I knew that he did. / [ + to infinitive ] Were you just pretending to be interested?

idiom - To "have bitten off more than you can chew" is an idiom that means you have tried to do something which is too difficult for you.

day-to-day - I'm going to show you the makeup that you can wear on the day-to-day basis.

tense - She was very tense as she waited for the interview..