This could be why you're depressed or anxious | Johann Hari | TED – YouTube Dictation Transcript & Vocabulary

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Interaktives Transkript & Highlights

1.For a really long time, I had two mysteries that were hanging over me

2.I didn't understand them and, to be honest, I was quite afraid to look into them

3.The first mystery was, I'm 40 years old, and all throughout my lifetime, year after year, serious depression and anxiety have risen, in the United States, in Britain, and across the Western world

4.And I wanted to understand why

5.Why is this happening to us

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Schlüsselvokabular (CEFR B1)

doubleness

B2

A B2-level word commonly used in this context.

Example:

""Why am I feeling this strange doubleness?""

alcoholics

B1

A person addicted to alcohol.

Example:

"it was like a kind of Alcoholics Anonymous for consumerism, right?"

anonymous

B1

Lacking a name; not named, for example an animal not assigned to any species.

Example:

"it was like a kind of Alcoholics Anonymous for consumerism, right?"

consumerism

B2

A policy of protecting and informing consumers through honesty in advertising and packaging, improved safety standards etc

Example:

"it was like a kind of Alcoholics Anonymous for consumerism, right?"

alongside

B1

Along the side; by the side; side by side with.

Example:

"alongside the option of chemical antidepressants."

including

B1

To bring into a group, class, set, or total as a (new) part or member.

Example:

"including many in the way we're living."

psychiatrist

B2

A medical doctor specializing in psychiatry.

Example:

"when one day, I went to interview a South African psychiatrist"

traumatic

B1

Of, caused by, or causing trauma.

Example:

"and I'm guessing it was pretty traumatic"

suggesting

B1

To imply but stop short of saying explicitly.

Example:

"suggesting it can produce real and meaningful falls"

resources

B1

Something that one uses to achieve an objective, e.g. raw materials or personnel.

Example:

"does not lie in drawing more and more on your resources"

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Grammatik- & Aussprachetipps für Diktate

1

Chunking

Achte auf Pausen des Sprechers nach bestimmten Phrasen – das hilft beim Verständnis.

2

Linking

Höre auf verbundene Sprache, wenn Wörter verschmelzen.

3

Intonation

Achte auf Tonhöhenänderungen, die wichtige Informationen betonen.

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basic
CEFR-Niveau
B1
Dauer
1228
Gesamtwörter
3748
Gesamtsätze
469
Durchschnittl. Satzlänge
8 Wörter

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