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Hello everyone and welcome back to another video here on the English Sponge YouTube channel.
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Today we're going to be answering your questions.
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Me and Sam are going to sit here and we're going to answer some of the questions that you have sent us.
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About a week ago I left a post here on the YouTube channel asking you guys for any questions
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that you wanted to ask us and so in In this video, we're going to answer some of those questions.
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And so let's begin, Sam, maybe you can give us the first question that our audience has left us today.
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Mohamed from Morocco has asked, first of all, I would like to thank all of you for the amazing and useful videos that you've made for us.
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You're very welcome, Mohamed.
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I've reached the B2 level and I can understand 90 % of what you say, and sometimes I do shadowing practice.
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The thing is, I feel like it's hard to speak.
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What is your advice?
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Yeah, so it's a good question.
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First of all, you said that you are watching our B2 level videos and you can understand 90 % of them, which is obviously a very good place to be.
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considering that you are already in a position where you can understand a lot that means
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that you have already acquired quite a lot of vocabulary this is a very good place to be
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so now you're at the stage you've done really in my
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opinion you've done the most difficult part really you've done the part
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which takes the most amount of time and
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that is getting to like a b2 level acquiring lots of vocabulary
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and now you can even understand our b2 videos now you want to speak okay well yes of course
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if you want to learn to speak you do need to
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put in a lot of hours into speaking the first step
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of course is to acquire the vocabulary by listening to comprehensible input
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but of course once you've done
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that obviously you then need to speak let's see what happens
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muhammad after you get a hundred hours of speaking practice let's
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see how much your speaking practice has improved then i do
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have a video on this channel called how to speak english
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which can sort of show you the more practical ways that you can actually improve your speaking practice
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muhammad at the end of the day the most important thing to do is really obvious
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and very boring it's that you need to speak a lot okay
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if you've already acquired lots of vocabulary by listening there comes a time
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when you need to start speaking so go ahead
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and try to get a hundred hours of speaking practice
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and i promise your speaking will be a lot better
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because you already have a lot of vocabulary a lot of english in your head already okay
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so after a hundred hours of speaking practice you're going to be speaking probably quite well after 100 hours
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so that's my answer sam that's my answer yeah uh just to add a little bit onto
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that james um speaking is like any other difficult skill the
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more hours you have doing it the more comfortable you will become You also need to think about high -value speaking practice.
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One -on -one conversations are very high -value speaking practice.
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In -person conversations are extremely high -value speaking practice.
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When you are first learning how to speak, small two - to three -minute conversations with people you meet.
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Maybe they're tourists in your city, maybe you're traveling and you speak to a cashier.
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Those short two to three minute conversations are really important for building your confidence and making you comfortable using English to communicate.
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That's true.
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Obviously, if you are not in an English -speaking country, there are other good options.
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They're all outlined in my video, how to speak English.
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If you want to learn to speak English, but you're not in an English -speaking country.
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There's really no excuses, I'm afraid.
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You can still learn to speak English if you're in a country where people don't speak English.
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So, let's move on to the next question now.
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So, this question is for Sam.
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This is Gabriel from Panama, I believe.
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He says, Hello from Panama.
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How can I improve my speaking and thinking in English.
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I know English and I can read, write and speak it but I don't feel confident about my English because I don't have anyone to talk to in English.
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Same problem.
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I feel like I can't have a proper conversation because no one in my house speaks English, so I don't really have anyone to practice with.
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Taking an English course is also quite expensive for me, so I was wondering if you have any advice on how I can improve my speaking
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and start thinking more naturally in English.
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Sam.
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yes
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so on the thinking point uh similar to you james i
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made a video uh about translation a couple of weeks ago
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so details of how to stop translating
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and how to start thinking in english can be found in
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that video i laid out a really nice plan
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but it's mainly about starting simple um just naming objects around you in English without resorting to your translation first.
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I think lots of people, when it comes to thinking in English,
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they forget that the more time you spend with the language, the easier it's going to become.
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The worry that people have is that right now I'm struggling to think in English.
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Right now is really, really difficult.
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You almost just have to trust the process slightly more an
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extra 200 300 hours of comprehensible input might take you nine
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months to a year maybe even longer to get it but after
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that year has passed you will likely be much better at
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thinking in english it's a skill like all of the other ones
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now on speaking to people in English
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when you don't have options there are some good things you can do the first one
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that I am thinking about is sort of language exchange events
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cities often run free free events where you can go to
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speak to people in different languages yeah then things like video games online forums anything
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that you're interested in there'll probably be a English speaking subreddit there.
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And that's when you can make some English speaking friends, etc, etc. Yeah, in terms of thinking in English, I find this a bit of an odd question.
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Lots of people say they have a problem with thinking in English.
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But personally, I've never had a problem with this learning Spanish.
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I started thinking in Spanish quite naturally, to be honest.
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And I think it's probably because of the method
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that I use to learn spanish which was comprehensible input i simply listened to such a huge number of hours
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of input in spanish that it just really got deep inside my head
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and i would find myself just sort of thinking about things
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and sometimes talking to myself like in the kitchen in spanish
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and i think that that if you're struggling to think in english it could be
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because you are translating from your native language to English perhaps
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or you just haven't had that that huge amount of input
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that you need to just sort of really just get deep
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in your head you know that's what I would say um
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yeah let's move on to the next question then let's hear it
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so the next question is from Madeleine and she is from Buenos Aires Argentina thanks for watching the videos uh she
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She said,
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which methods to try i don't have anyone to speak english
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with 24 7 to train my ear how can you gain
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the confidence to speak english without making a fool it's funny we obviously keep hearing the same kind of issues
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that people are having in terms of speaking english there are to go to go back to the fundamentals okay
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if you want to speak english there are two steps that you need to follow.
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The first step is you need to acquire the vocabulary that you need to speak with, okay?
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I'm just going to give you an example here, okay?
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Sam, speak Japanese for me.
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Go ahead.
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Konnichiwa.
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That's it, unfortunately.
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That's it.
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So what is stopping Sam from talking more than than he did.
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Well Sam, it's because Sam doesn't know any words in japanese right you can't speak in a language
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if you don't have any vocabulary to use right
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so the first step to speaking is to acquire the vocabulary
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that you need to speak with the second step is to actually practice moving your lips
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and your tongue on your mouth to actually create the words
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and to speak the first step is a long process the second step is not as long okay
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but those are the two steps
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that you need to go through to speak english in terms
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of confidence um first of all as you're generally speaking as
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your english level increases you will become more confident yes
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if you're an a2 beginner it's quite normal to not be very confident in english right
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but if you get to a level where you become a c1 advanced speaker of english you know
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and you you're obviously going be more confident because you just know deeply
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that like you know english well the second the second point is you have to understand
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that people are not really judging your english like
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when you come out
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and speak um native speakers we are not there like criticizing any grammar mistakes you make
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and like making fun of your pronunciation mistakes it's like people
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don't care as much as you think they do most people
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out in the world they really just care about sort of receiving the message you're trying to give them
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and once they get the message
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that that's good enough for them it's like most people are
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not judging you like you like maybe you think they are
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so you should really relax try to relax a little bit
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and just speak english
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when you assuming you've already done a lot of listening you
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should just confidently speak english there There's no reason to really be shy
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or scared of speaking English because people are not judging you that bad.
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Sam, do you have anything to add to that?
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Yeah, it's quite simple what I'm going to add.
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If you want to get good at doing something difficult, you need to make yourself uncomfortable sometimes.
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If you want to gain confidence doing a skill that is very challenging and it can be quite embarrassing,
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quite awkward when you're sort of not super confident in yourself.
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You just have to make yourself uncomfortable.
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The more uncomfortable situations you put yourself in, the easier it will be.
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Soon, those really sort of difficult, worrying, short conversations will be very natural and very easy.
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The more uncomfortable you make yourself using the language the more confident you're going to be
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because the more experienced you are going to be yeah i
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think after you've been through a few uncomfortable situations you will quickly realize
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that there was no need to feel uncomfortable in the first
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place honestly you'll be like why did i why was i
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so scared to speak that was
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so silly you know that's probably how you will feel afterwards
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um good question let's move on to the next question okay
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next question for sam we have a question from um i don't know how to pronounce this username
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but it's atais dorati that is a random guess
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and it's probably wrong it says hi guys i've watched all the videos for my level
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but i'm still far from reaching the required hours should i
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re -watch should i re -watch the same videos until i hit the goal
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or can i move on to the next level kisses from Brazil.
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Sam.
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Yeah, this is the exact problem I have had with Chinese.
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There is simply just not enough content there yet to meet the hour requirement.
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What I would suggest is if you enjoy a video, you can watch it again.
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If you don't enjoy a video, don't force yourself through it just because it's more hours.
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We are not the only people who make comprehensible input.
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There are lots of other really good comprehensible input creators on YouTube,
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and I'm sure you'll be able to find other people who make really enjoyable English learning content as well.
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Obviously, we have a lot of videos now.
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We have a really good platform.
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But if you want to learn this language through this method,
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you do need to get input from multiple sources because there will be things that we miss.
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There will be certain words that you just don't pick up from us, which is why it's really good to try and get a big range of sources,
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huge range of accents, age categories is listen to men, listen to women.
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Try to listen to as much English from as many places.
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as possible yeah that's right so we have about 870 videos
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so far in the future we are planning to hit videos in the thousands okay we are hoping
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that eventually with english sponge you will just have enough comprehensible input in one place
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that you can use we hope to have more than 2 000 videos in the future
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but it's true that we are still growing
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so there is probably not enough content only with us
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but we will keep trying to increase the number of videos
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that we have for you guys
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so moving away from language learning questions to some of the more personal questions
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that you guys asked us the first one is hi I have a question for teacher James
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or teacher Sam what are your specifically what are your favorite specifically british snacks i love the biscuit uh shortbread fingers
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and i love tyrell's flavor of crisps sea salt and cider vinegar excellent crisps great choice
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thank you so james what is your your favorite british snack this is this is the hardest question so far.
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I mean, I'm gonna have to go with certain types of biscuits, okay?
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Like, probably my favorite British style biscuit.
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Like, I'm a big fan of custard creams.
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Custard creams are all very good.
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And probably bourbons.
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And I'm choosing those two because those are like classic British biscuits.
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So I'm gonna go with the custard creams and bourbons.
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That's my answer.
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And Dunkin' tea.
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Respectable.
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Yeah, very respectable.
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I was considering a custard cream as my choice.
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But I think it's shortbread.
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Like Scottish Highland shortbread.
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It's just delicious.
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It's a really buttery biscuit.
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It is beautiful.
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Yeah, there you go.
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James and Sam look like they have great chemistry on the British Culture podcast.
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Okay.
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I was wondering if you guys knew each other before you started English Sponge.
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No, the answer is no. I didn't meet Sam before we started English Sponge.
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But very early on in the early days of English Sponge, Sam offers to join and contribute to the project.
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That is not actually when we met, James.
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You've missed a part of the story.
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Okay.
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If you guys look through some of my old videos, on the English Sponge website,
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you will see that I used to be part of a different English Comprehensible Input channel.
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And once, a very long time ago,
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James contacted us, and he asked us if he could host our videos on the English Sponge website,
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which we said yes.
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We spoke a little bit through emails, and we organized a collaboration together.
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So we actually met through doing a collaboration, which you can still find on the English Bunch website.
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After that, a few months passed and I decided to leave the channel I was working on before, spoke to James, and the rest is history.
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Yes, and actually the very first time that me and Sam met face -to -face was on our Reading, the video in the city in reading with sam walking around
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uh during like near christmas time uh yeah that's the first time um
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but yeah the first time we met we created our first
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viral video yeah that's right that's right it's pretty good going
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actually uh okay love summer 0702 has asked have you ever run into one of your subscribers
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while you were out and about And they recognised you first.
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Yes.
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That has happened three times now.
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In fact, three times people have actually recognised me in real life.
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The first time I was at a language exchange event, and there was a guy attending from Japan, and he sort of said, hey, I recognise you, I've seen your videos.
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That was the first time anybody recognised me in public
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that was a very strange experience the second time was recently
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i was out in birmingham i was walking through the shopping center carrying my camera
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and i was walking through
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and i just heard from behind me english sponge english sponge like
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that and uh and a girl ran up to me
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and said she had watched our videos um the third the
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third uh she was from algeria i believe um the third one was Did she take a photo with you, James?
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No, she didn't take a photo with me.
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She didn't ask.
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You're not famous enough, yeah.
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She didn't ask for my autograph.
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But yeah, she did run over.
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And if you're watching, you may be watching.
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Hello.
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I hope you enjoyed the video in Birmingham, where you're living.
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The third occasion was in London two days ago.
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I was actually out at a pub.
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And a Spanish, no, sorry, an Italian guy came over and said,
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he's he's watched our videos and he recognizes me so yes three times that's happened so far
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i haven't been recognized in public yet uh i've been recognized
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on the internet a few times i've had students um book classes with me uh
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and say hi i'm from i'm from youtube i quite like what you do
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which is a surprise because i don't advertise my my teaching through youtube um
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if you are in santiago and you recognize me please come
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and say hi i would really like that
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that would be a really really nice uh experience for me i'm promised i may look mean
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and scary uh when i'm outside i'm a very lovely person
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if you recognize me feel free to say hi okay
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and finally we have a long comment here from BrisBris
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and we're just gonna do a little bit of a quickfire round here.
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So Sam, I want a quick answer for these questions, okay?
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What's the best place to go on holiday in the UK?
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London.
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Interesting.
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What What countries have you visited so far?
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Many European ones, a few in South America and one in Africa.
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Are you a sweet or a savoury person?
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I am a sweet person.
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If you didn't teach English, what would you do for a living?
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I would be poor yeah what's your favorite film
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or book my favorite film is the wolf of wall street
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and my favorite film is wolf brother what's the meaning of life
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the meaning of life is to simply experience what is around you do you prefer tea or coffee
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tea okay do you see your glass mate mate neither mate that's not in the question uh
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but okay do you see your glass half empty or half full
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i would just drink the water and make it empty
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sam why chili why not peru paddington bear is disappointed uh chili has a very high standard of living
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and excellent access to the mountains
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what's your biggest dream to own my own apartment what's your star sign i am a sagittarius
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nice excellent now james it is your time for the quick fire question
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so i'm ready james what's the best place to go on holiday in the UK?
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Cornwall.
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What countries have you visited so far?
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I've visited 35 countries in three different continents.
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Are you a sweet or a savoury person?
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Sweet.
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If you didn't teach English, what would you do for a living?
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Starve to death.
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What's your favourite Favourite film or book?
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Favourite film...
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The Matrix.
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Boring.
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What's the meaning of life?
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Stay alive, don't die.
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Do you prefer tea or coffee?
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Tea.
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I'm British.
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Do you see your glass half empty or half full?
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Most of the time I see it half empty.
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but i should probably try that's a very british answer that's
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a very good answer what's your biggest dream to make english sponge uh really really successful what is your star sign scorpio
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excellent okay guys i hope you've enjoyed uh listening to me
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and sam answer some of your questions
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if you like this video maybe we will do another video
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like this in a couple of months in the future
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but that's it guys so thank you for watching today and we'll see you in the next video bye
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Deze video bevat 313 zinnen en 3562 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 25:05. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 142 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. 87% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is goed te volgen.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
15 woorden uit de video die het leren waard zijn, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| sponge zelfstandig naamwoord | /spʌnd͡ʒ/ | spons |
| vocabulary zelfstandig naamwoord | /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/ | woordenschat, vocabulaire |
| uncomfortable bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/ | ongemakkelijk |
| acquire werkwoord | /əˈkwaɪɚ/ | verwerven, verkrijgen |
| skill zelfstandig naamwoord | /skɪl/ | bekwaamheid, vaardigheid |
| naturally bijwoord | /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/ | natuurlijk |
| translation zelfstandig naamwoord | /tɹænzˈleɪʃən/ | vertaling, transmissie |
| wolf zelfstandig naamwoord | /wʊlf/ | wolf |
| relax werkwoord | /ɹɪˈlæks/ | losmaken |
| collaboration zelfstandig naamwoord | /kəˌlæbəˈɹeɪʃən/ | samenwerking, het samenwerken |
| scare werkwoord | /skɛɚ/ | bang maken, beangstigen |
| bore werkwoord | /boɹ/ | vervelen |
| translate werkwoord | /tɹænzˈleɪt/ | vertalen, overzetten |
| snack zelfstandig naamwoord | /snæk/ | tussendoortje |
| chili zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈt͡ʃɪli/ | chili, chilipeper |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| come out werkwoord | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | uitkomen |
| come over werkwoord | langskomen | |
| run over werkwoord | te lang doorbijlopen |
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Voorwaardelijke zinnen if + zin, will/would + werkwoord — een voorwaarde en het gevolg | If you didn't teach English, what would you |
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | have sent · has left · has asked |
| Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding | them, which is · spanish which was · people who make |
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | can be found · been recognized |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 89 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, you're, don't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: translation /tɹænzˈleɪʃən/, collaboration /kəˌlæbəˈɹeɪʃən/, shadow /ˈʃædəʊ̯/, occasion /əˈkeɪ̯ʒən/, delicious /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, uncomfortable /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, collaboration /kəˌlæbəˈɹeɪʃən/, disappointed /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd/
Zo oefen je met deze video
- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
- Spreek zin voor zin na op normale snelheid en herhaal elke zin tot je ritme gelijk is aan dat van de spreker.
- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als sponge, vocabulary, uncomfortable.
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.