Pronunciation ChallengeWellcast - How to Move On and Find Closure

[Transcript]
Intro:
We all have times in our lives when we feel things aren't working out smoothly. It could be because of personal relationships, work issues, or financial problems. What do you do when you experience setbacks like that? Different people have different ways of dealing with problems and negative feelings. The modern world offers many ways to deal with hardships. With the help of technology and science, we can sometimes search for solutions using the internet, we can also use social media to contact people in faraway places and comparatively speaking, our lives are a lot easier than the lives of those decades ago. But one thing that technology cannot help with is our own emotions. Although sometimes we look fine on the outside, things may not be going so well on the inside. So it is very important that we maintain our emotional well-being. Some of us tend to ignore it when a negative feeling arises. If we always leave these feelings unresolved, over time they may build up and one day become harmful to our emotional health.
We need to be responsible for our feelings and face them in a mature way. May it be anger, sadness, frustration, or other similar feelings, we should never ignore them. The only way of dealing with them is through acceptance and resolve. 
The most important thing to remember is that you’re not alone. Everyone experiences these similar setbacks. You’ll feel better if you can find someone to talk to. Some people choose to seek professional help. Talking to a trained professional like a psychologist may definitely help, especially with emotions that have accumulated over a long period of time.
Let’s stop for a moment and go over our pronunciation challenge sentence. Here it is: 

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Sentence:
We guarantee that this cathartic exercise will provide you with at least a little sense of relief, and it’ll help you get perspective.


Pronunciation Tips:
guarantee
cathartic
perspective

Try to link these words when you read the sentence:
with at least
it’ll

Vocab:

1. guarantee KK[͵gærənˋti] IPA/ˌɡer.ənˈtiː/
v. to promise that something will happen or exist
n. a promise that something will be done or will happen, especially a written promise by a company to repair or change a product that develops a fault within a particular period of time

Example:
This new refrigerator comes with a 10-year guarantee.


2. cathartic KK[kəˋθɑrtɪk] IPA/kəˈθɑːr.sɪs/
n. the process of releasing strong emotions through a particular activity or experience, such as writing or theatre, in a way that helps you to understand those emotions
Example:
Keeping a diary has been a cathartic experience for Eliza.


3. perspective KK[pɚˋspɛktɪv] IPA/pɚˈspek.tɪv/
n. a particular way of considering something
adj. an object or person that is in perspective has the correct size and position in comparison with other things in the picture.
Example:
In your perspective, is there anything I can do to improve my English pronunciation?


Outro:
We live in a world that creates a lot of challenges and hardships. In some ways — physical and technological — it is better to be alive today than hundreds of years ago. But in other ways — mental and emotional — there are new burdens that we need to deal with, including building stress in our daily lives. One of the main reasons for this is that although life around us changed and developed so much in the last few centuries, the human brain in fact stayed very much the same. Our mental capabilities and the way we perceive the world around us haven't changed that much since the time we were cavemen. So no wonder many people cannot cope well with stress and emotional challenges. Experts estimate that this trend will not go away, and might even get worse as we rely more and more on machines and AI to work for us and solve our problems. But we’ve established the fact that no one can solve our emotional problems for us, so we should learn to find creative ways to let our feelings out, to share with others, to let go, and not to bottle them inside. Remember hardships are only temporary, but a strong spirit (and perhaps a good friend) will always get you through tough times.

And that’s it for this week’s episode. Hope you’ll stick around and record your sentence challenge! See you later, guys!

We guarantee that this cathartic exercise will provide you with at least a little sense of relief, and it’ll help you get perspective.

We guarantee that this cathartic exercise will provide you with at least a little sense of relief, and it'll help you get perspective.

We guarantee that this cathartic exercise will provide you with at least a little sense of relief, and it'll you get perspective.