Pronunciation Challenge7 Psychological Tricks To Get Someone To Like You!

… I’m currently still traveling in Canada and I tried my best to prerecord as many as possible episodes before I leave, but I just can’t. So this Sunday Ingrid will be taking in my place for the show. Big thanks to her always a great helper. And one more thing, last Sunday was my last Sunday show. You know the birthday episode, yes, gonna remind you again, my birthday is on September the first, and you haven’t heard that episode, please make sure to go to listen it after this episode. What was l saying? Right, the hosting day. I won’t be hosting Sunday shows any more, we have new host coming, and you’ll all be glad to meet her. Don’t forget to give her some support when she’s up.

Today we’ll gonna be looking at this video called “ 7 psychological tricks to get someone to like you!” Personally l don’t think just learning this tricks will make you popular or get someone to like for real. This video is basically for those of the who are socially awkward and need some social skills. For me, I think if you are genuine(真誠的) , if you treat people nicely, that’ll be all right. To me, these are the only two factors for people actually like you. But still, let’s watch this video and learn these 7 psychological tricks to get people to like you.
Today’s sentence: This next one of the oldest, psychological techniques in the book. It’s called mirroring.

psychological(adj.) is relating to the human mind and feelings.
Sometimes you hear psychological problems, it is also the same thing as mental issues. You know in Asian’s society, in the Asian’s community, often times when we talk about psychological problems and mental issues, it’s a taboo, people usually don’t wanna talk about it because they think it’s bad, but it is not true, we’re gonna raise the awareness when it comes to psychological problems and mental issues. In modern days, I think it’s happening more and more often, it’s more common. I don’t think we should just not talk about it, I think we should pay attention to it and raise awareness because anyone could have this issue, and it’s our job, our duty to help them.

It’s great to have a manager who concerns the physical and psychological well-being (身心健康)of her employees.

technique(n.) is a way of doing activity that needs a skill.
Troy is keen to perfect his coding technique.
perfect(v.)means to improve things, to make something free of faults, to make it better.

mirroring(n.) means a behavior in which one person constantly imitate the gesture(姿勢), speech pattern or attitude of another. Mirroring often occurs in social situations, particularly in the company of close friends or family.
Did you see how Venessa is totally mirroring Troy? Let me tell you, she’s got a thing for him.
When you say you have a thing for somebody, it means that you like this person, you have a little crush on this person.

Psychological problems 心理問題

Mental issue心理/精神/思想上的問題

- It's great to have a manager who concerns the physical and psychological well-being of her employees.
+ 擁有一位關心員工身心健康的經理真是太好了。
+ well-being => 幸福安康

■mirroring 鏡像；鏡反射
■mirror [ˋmɪrɚ]鏡子；反映、真實的寫照[(+of)]
反映、反射；與…很相似
- Do you think Venessa is totally mirroring Troy? Let me tell you, she’s got a thing for him.(她ㄧ定對他有感覺）

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