Shadowing Practice: 10 Questions for Reese Witherspoon - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Reese Witherspoon is an Academy Award winning actress, a mother of two and a woman who has been romanced on screen by both Wilson brothers.
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Reese, welcome.
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Thank you.
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So you're the honorary chair of the Avon Foundation and one of its big issues is breast cancer.
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Is there something that we're not doing in the fight against breast cancer?
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There's so much that's being done.
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There's so much research and progress that has been made but as with anything that is you know a a global epidemic,
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I think it needs to be dealt with continually.
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And when you talk about every three minutes a woman is diagnosed worldwide,
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I think it's still a situation where we have to create research and funding is always necessary and education.
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Being an advocate and being in movies and also probably donating to causes, which do What do you find to be,
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for the celebrity, the most effective way of effecting change?
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Fundraising is of utmost importance, especially when you're talking about new technologies and new sciences and education.
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But, you know, it's wonderful to see my colleagues making movies about breast cancer, you know, and really showing the psychological parts of it
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that are so important for women to understand and families to sort of talk about.
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She said once that the, this is a quote, the battles we face in this business aren't financial, but they are moral.
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And I wonder how much those two things are intertwined, that the reason people suspend their morals is because there's so much money on the line.
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Well, I think certainly when you talk about any amount of money, I mean, there's morality involved.
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And I think every day you make choices that you have to live with for the rest of your life.
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And I think, you know, it's just like any other life situation.
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You just have to make choices that, you know, hopefully reflect your true character.
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And I hope to be doing that in the movie industry.
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Although it's always dangerous territory when you're talking about morals and character.
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It's really the sign of a fall to come, usually.
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You've made some incredibly successful movies and you've made some that were disappointing in the box office.
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Do you feel differently about that afterwards?
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Yeah, of course.
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When movies are disappointing, it's more than just the financial sort of disappointment.
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It's a real emotional experience because you've carried that with you
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and you put a lot of effort and energy into the movie and all of the people that you've worked with.
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But it makes It makes all the successes that much better.
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But yeah, I've had disastrous Saturday mornings where you're like, oh really?
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That movie is not going to do well, is it?
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So, you survive.
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Can you ever tell?
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Nope.
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I'm really bad at that.
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I can't ever prognosticate what people are going to like or not like.
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So I just try to go with what I would want to see and try to bear in mind, you know, people have very difficult lives.
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They want to go and enjoy themselves at the movies.
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it's easier to just go to a movie and not think for a while.
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Did you ever think Legally Blonde would take off as hugely as it did?
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No, I had no idea it was going to be so successful.
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I really loved that character.
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I loved Elle Wood so much.
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She was just really interesting, one of those sort of great innocents in the world, you know.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau B2 is gebaseerd op de video “10 Questions for Reese Witherspoon”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: movie, breast, moral, cancer, character. Deze video bevat 46 zinnen en 595 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 3:18. De spreker praat snel, ongeveer 180 woorden per minuut, dus reken op verbonden en ingeslikte klanken. 87% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is goed te volgen. 7 van de 46 zinnen zijn vragen, dus het is goede oefening voor vraagintonatie en korte antwoorden.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
De 11 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| disappoint werkwoord | /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnt/ | teleurstellen |
| diagnose werkwoord | /ˈdaɪ.əɡˌnoʊs/ | diagnosticeren |
| honorary bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈɑn.əˌɹɛɹ.i/ | honorair |
| suspend werkwoord | /səsˈpɛnd/ | schorsen |
| disastrous bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /dɪˈzæs.tɹəs/ | rampzalig, catastrofaal |
| epidemic zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˌɛpɪˈdɛmɪk/ | epidemie |
| fundraising zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈfʌndˌɹeɪzɪŋ/ | fondsenwerving, fundraising |
| utter werkwoord | /ˈʌtəɹ/ | produceren, uitbrengen |
| morality zelfstandig naamwoord | /məˈɹælɪti/ | moraal |
| colleague zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈkɒliːɡ/ | collega, medewerker |
| disappointment zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪntmənt/ | teleurstelling |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Betekenis |
|---|---|
| take off werkwoord | uittrekken, afzetten |
Zinnen om te herhalen
Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:
- Do you feel differently about that afterwards?
- Can you ever tell?
- I'm really bad at that.
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | has been romanced · being done · has been made |
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | has been romanced · has been made · You've made |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 13 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals you're, you've, aren't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: prognosticate /pɹɒɡˈnɒstɪkeɪt/, honorary /ˈɑn.əˌɹɛɹ.i/, epidemic /ˌɛpɪˈdɛmɪk/, morality /məˈɹælɪti/, continually /kənˈtɪnjuəli/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: suspend /səsˈpɛnd/, colleague /ˈkɒliːɡ/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: disastrous /dɪˈzæs.tɹəs/, morality /məˈɹælɪti/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: diagnose /ˈdaɪ.əɡˌnoʊs/, prognosticate /pɹɒɡˈnɒstɪkeɪt/, colleague /ˈkɒliːɡ/
Zo oefen je met deze video
- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
- Begin op 0,75× snelheid, spreek zin voor zin na en ga terug naar normale snelheid zodra het makkelijk gaat.
- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als disappoint, diagnose, honorary.
Wat is de Shadowing-techniek?
Shadowing is een wetenschappelijk onderbouwde taalleermethode die oorspronkelijk is ontwikkeld voor professionele tolkentraining en gepopulariseerd door polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. De methode is eenvoudig maar krachtig: je luistert naar native Engelse audio en herhaalt het onmiddellijk hardop — als een schaduw die de spreker volgt met slechts 1–2 seconden vertraging. In tegenstelling tot passief luisteren of grammaticadrills, dwingt shadowing je hersenen en mondspieren om echte spraakpatronen tegelijkertijd te verwerken en te reproduceren. Onderzoek toont aan dat het de uitspraaknauwkeurigheid, intonatie, ritme, verbonden spraak, luisterbegrip en spreekvaardigheid aanzienlijk verbetert — waardoor het een van de meest effectieve methoden is voor IELTS Speaking-voorbereiding en echte Engelse communicatie.