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hey check this out you know what eric asked me when i got into work this morning

i have no idea what do you ask you he asked me if i felt the earthquake last night

earthquake you've got to be kidding i didn't feel an earthquake

i know that's what i said he told me it actually

woke him up last night you know what yeah it was like it went it happened at like, uh, four 42 in the morning.

So we must've been sleeping, but I mean, it's possible that, you know, even if we had been awake, we might not have felt it because, you know, maybe it, uh,

wasn't felt, you know, this far North, but, uh, I mean, I thought he was pulling my leg when he first talked about it.

Well, I guess that's not so far fetched considering we live on a major fault line here.

Yeah.

But actually I think this earthquake was, uh, on a different fault line um

because you know eric lives uh just uh south of san jose yeah

and uh the earthquake he said was due east of san jose

so he was obviously a lot closer to the epicenter than we were

so i don't i'm not even sure it was felt here yeah

that makes sense well you know i've experienced quite a few earthquakes in the past several years

but i've been living here now a little over two years I think I've only experienced one here.

It was really strange, too.

I should say each earthquake has been a completely different experience.

But the one I felt here, I was standing outside a restaurant talking to AJ and another friend, and all of a sudden,

it just felt like this shift.

It's really hard to explain, but it made me think of like a cartoon, like how in the cartoon, like buildings might just shift to the right and then shift right back.

Yeah, without falling.

And I had no idea what was going on for a few minutes afterwards.

And then I realized, oh, that must have been an earthquake.

Yeah, you know what I usually notice? the times

that i've been at home here and uh there's been an earthquake it's almost as

if there's this really big train or like a gigantic mac truck going by

and uh suddenly i start to hear the heater shaking

and um it's like the noise is like uh is loud for like a second and then it's gone. So it's really weird.

You know, it's almost like the first couple of times I felt it, I wasn't even aware it was an earthquake while it was happening.

Well, that's so funny you say that because one that I experienced in Bangkok, it actually was after the tsunami.

And so later I found out that it was, it was aftershock from the tsunami.

But anyway, I was in a building up on the ninth floor and suddenly there was all this rattling.

And I'm thinking to myself, it just, it was so irrational.

I'm thinking to myself, God, there's like a train going by and I can't believe that this building is shaking so much from the train.

And of course a train wouldn't have made a building

or at least me up on the ninth floor feel something to that effect.

And I think it happened about two times.

And that one wasn't until several days later when I was talking to people and they were like, oh, did you feel the earthquake?

Then it dawned on me, oh, that was an earthquake.

Yeah, I know.

It's crazy how when you're not used to feeling them, you could think it's something else.

Yeah.

Yeah, totally.

I've been living here for a while now and I've definitely felt my share of earthquakes.

I mean, when you live here, it's a given that you're going to experience earthquakes.

You just hope that you're not going to be here for the big one.

Right.

When I first moved here, it was five years after the Loma Prieta earthquake, which was a very big earthquake here.

And there are a lot of people who lived here who

I met who had actually been living in the area when the earthquake hit.

So it was interesting to get their perspective.

And it also like made me remember where I was when I heard about the Loma Prieta earthquake.

I was watching the World Series on TV and, you know, it was taking place in San Francisco go.

So as I'm watching it, suddenly the announcer starts saying, wow, I think we're feeling an earthquake here.

And the cameras started shaking.

And all of a sudden, the TV coverage cut out.

So, you know, I wanted to get a rundown of what happened.

So I turned to the news station and within a few minutes, they were discussing this gigantic earthquake.

That had hit San Francisco, and they started showing pictures,

maybe 30 minutes later, of these people who were trying to weed through the rubble of these buildings that had been, like, coming down.

So, I mean, it was pretty scary, I'll tell you what.

Yeah, well, you know, the three months I was living in Japan, I experienced two.

Both of those were very different, very different from the one I'd experienced here and also very different from the one in Bangkok.

But one of them, I was actually up in my apartment, which was on the fifth floor of a building, and I was woken up at about five o 'clock in the morning to the building swaying.

And because earthquakes are like a dime a dozen in Japan, they've built a lot of their buildings to absorb the shock.

So that's why it was swaying.

It was really, it's a very surreal feel.

Hi, this is Kristen Dodds, and this is Joe Weiss,

and we just wanted to let you know that this material is copyrighted in the year 2008 by Learn Real English,

LLC, www .learnrealenglish .com.

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Deze spreekles op niveau B1 is gebaseerd op de video “01.a Earthquakes Conversation - Effortless Real English”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: earthquake, felt, experienced, train, san. Deze video bevat 72 zinnen en 1024 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 6:03. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 169 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. 82% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken.

Belangrijke woorden in deze video

De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:

Woord	Uitspraak	Betekenis
earthquake zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈɝθkweɪk/	aardbeving, aardschok
shake werkwoord	/ˈʃeɪk/	schudden
tsunami zelfstandig naamwoord	/(t)suːˈnɑːmi/	tsunami, vloedgolf
gigantic bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/d͡ʒaɪˈɡæntɪk/	gigantisch
sway werkwoord	/ˈsweɪ̯/	zwaaien
ninth bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/naɪnθ/	negende
epicentre zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈɛpɪˌsɛntɚ/	epicentrum
rattle zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈɹæ.təl/	rammelaar, gerammel
rubble zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈɹʌb.əl/	puin
irrational bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/ɪˈɹæʃ.(ə.)nəl/	irrationeel, irrationele
announcer zelfstandig naamwoord	/əˈnaʊnsɚ/	omroeper
surreal bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/səˈɹiː(.ə)l/	surreëel, bovenwerkelijk
fetch werkwoord	/fɛt͡ʃ/	halen
dime zelfstandig naamwoord	/daɪm/	dubbeltje
absorb werkwoord	/æbˈsɔɹb/	absorberen, (in zich) opnemen

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Woord	Betekenis
find out werkwoord	ontdekken, onderzoeken

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De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:

Structuur	In de video
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — iets dat eerder begon en nog bezig is	i've been living
Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt	i've experienced · I've only experienced · has been
Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet	wasn't felt · was felt · was woken
Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding	earthquake, which was · people who lived · people who were

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De spreker gebruikt 26 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I've, I'm, wasn't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

De “th”-klanken: earthquake /ˈɝθkweɪk/, ninth /naɪnθ/
De klanken “sh” en “zh”: shake /ˈʃeɪk/, aftershock /ˈæftɜɹʃɔk/, irrational /ɪˈɹæʃ.(ə.)nəl/
Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: epicentre /ˈɛpɪˌsɛntɚ/, irrational /ɪˈɹæʃ.(ə.)nəl/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: absorb /æbˈsɔɹb/, weed /wiːd/
/æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: gigantic /d͡ʒaɪˈɡæntɪk/, aftershock /ˈæftɜɹʃɔk/, rattle /ˈɹæ.təl/, irrational /ɪˈɹæʃ.(ə.)nəl/, absorb /æbˈsɔɹb/
/w/ — met ronde lippen: earthquake /ˈɝθkweɪk/, sway /ˈsweɪ̯/, awake /əˈweɪk/, weed /wiːd/

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