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At the start of this year, I set a goal for myself to go backcountry camping alone for the first time.

But when I moved to the mountains three years ago, the thought of camping by myself scared the fucking shit out of me.

My gosh, this is actually insane.

Honestly, it still does.

But as the year progressed, solo camping stopped feeling like something I want to do, and started feeling like something I need to do.

So for the next three days, I'll be venturing 10km into the remote Canadian wilderness, home to bears, cougars, and all sorts of wildlife.

Hey bear!

A place with no designated campground and no cell reception.

Just me and my thoughts.

I'm sorry.

Alright, so I'm about 20 minutes into this trail.

My pack is definitely heavy, but to be fair I did pack a lot more than I usually do just to be safe,

make sure I got everything.

And it just passed an old man who actually did the trail that I'm doing.

He started at 1am and he was telling me

that there were definitely signs of bears in the area

so not the first thing you want to hear but we're still gonna keep going.

The plan is hike four kilometers today and get to this beautiful meadow

that I've always wanted to camp at

and hopefully we get a killer sunrise there tomorrow

and then hike the remaining 7k to the spot

that the old man was talking about

and then set up camp there for night two so that's the plan and I'm stick to it.

Yeah let's do this thing.

Adventure begins.

Okay, so there's this beautiful stream running through the meadow here, and I've been trying find a way to cross it for the past 20 minutes

but it's been pretty deep but I just found a spot here where it narrows out

and I'm gonna jump across because I feel like I found a really cool shot

with the river as a leading line so I'm gonna try and snap that right now.

Yeah it's really cool being out here

because I have been out here multiple times

and I've always looked at certain shots and certain locations to go see

and visit and just like explore and I just haven't you know I've either been like passing through or

something like that so it's gonna be really fun to just explore for the rest of the day

but like come on this is absolutely insane it's crazy

that I get to call this my backyard my home yeah definitely grateful for that

Okay, so the light is getting pretty nice and I just found this really cool frame right here.

These two trees framing the peak in the back.

What a cool mountain.

I love the reds and the yellows in front too.

It's absolutely beautiful.

Come on.

Like how do we not just like… What are we doing sitting in front of just like computers

and spreadsheets all day and

this is what it's about you know this is my happy place

so I'm glad to be out here and let's go find camp Alright.

All right, so it is dinner time and I'm learning that I packed a ridiculous amount of food.

Like, maybe I like subconsciously packed for like two people, but there's a ton of food here.

Like it almost doesn't even fit in the bear bin.

Let me show you.

so this is where we're at right now she's almost stuffed to the brim

but I still have these all this stuff and then my nudes are they're cooking right now so

kind of yeah I don't know I mean I haven't really eaten today so I have to have a good dinner

but this is like an incredible amount of food

so I don't know I do love to eat

I love to eat in the backcountry is one of my favorite things to do I mean

it's one of my favorite things to do period but food just tastes better out here I find so mmm so good

Honestly, today has been incredible so far.

Like, it is so beautiful out here.

It's actually crazy that you can do this type of stuff for free.

But, yeah, I don't know.

I feel like in many ways this is, like, exactly what I needed.

I know I kind of alluded to that at the beginning of this video, but I haven't given you too much context.

So, but yeah, truthfully for the past two years I have like really really struggled with self -confidence

and yeah self -love and self -acceptance

and yeah obviously that's weighed a lot on me mentally

and it's also not just affected me but it's also affected my relationships, particularly my relationship with my partner.

And yeah it's just like been a constant

cycle of like overthinking you know and and indecision and yeah lack of self -trust and

I don't know it's manifested in me not knowing what I want to do with my career

and not committing to a direction

and yeah just like really just beating myself up mentally and

And in a lot of ways this trip was meant to be proof, like a way of building proof that I can take care of myself

and that I can do hard things and

that I can step into the unknown and thrive and come out on the other side.

So yeah, I think it's been that even just until this point.

I'm excited to see what the next day holds because I'm going a little bit further into the backcountry.

but yeah honestly it's just like really exhausting to have your mind constantly getting in the way

you know that's something that I'm desperately trying to change

and yeah you're capable of

so much more than you think I feel like the mind always makes

it out to be worse than it actually is you know

so I don't know I just wanted to share that because

if you're struggling with anything similar to what I have over the past couple years, then I just want you to know that you're not alone.

And, um, yeah, sometimes it's worth doing things like this, pushing your comfort zone so that you can grow.

And, uh, I know that's cliche, but, um, it's the truth.

So yeah, just reflecting.

I think that's what the mountains do to me.

They make me reflect in a beautiful way.

Uh, that's why I love coming out here.

Um, obviously it can be daunting to, uh, to be out here alone but it's also incredibly peaceful like

so so peaceful that's one thing I'm loving about it so far and yeah that's it for me

All right, the sun is up.

Let's go.

Look at this.

Damn.

What a morning.

We're getting the glow here on the peaks behind me, as you can see.

And wow, this place is beautiful.

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What a morning.

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Bring you up here to show the view.

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This is where I slept last night.

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This is my home.

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Unreal.

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Okay, so last night was definitely cold, but it honestly wasn't as cold as I thought it was going to be, so that's a plus.

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It was also super bright last night.

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It literally felt like somebody was shining a light into my tent, but it was obviously just the moon,

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and I remember peeking my head out a couple times and looking at the view, and you could see everything perfectly.

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It was like kind of wild.

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So that was really cool.

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But yeah, I'm just like trying to finish up my oatmeal right here and I did my morning routine.

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So I like to wake up and drink water

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first thing in the morning and then I like to do some gratitude journaling.

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So I'll write down like three to four things

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that I'm grateful for every day and then after

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that I do like a 10 -minute meditation and that's something I've started recently and honestly it's been

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I think it's been really helpful so far

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and it's something I'm excited to like practice more going forward

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for someone like me who has such a busy mind I think it's gonna really just like do wonders

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so yeah I did that out here

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and like what a friggin place to do it you know

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so today's trail is definitely more rugged than yesterday's trail

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it's a bit more like off the beaten path not a lot of people do this hike

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I have to cross the river I suspect I guess we'll kind of find out you know

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So I'm gonna finish my oatmeal and then pack up and then hit the road.

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Let's go Yeah

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Okay, so I'm a bit more alert on this section of the trail.

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It's far less traveled, a lot more overgrown as you can tell already.

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And yeah, for whatever reason I was up a couple hours before sunrise this morning

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and my mind just latched on to the idea of a bear encounter.

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I don't know why the mind does that sometimes, thinks of worst case scenarios, but for whatever reason mine did this morning

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so yeah just gonna kind of stay alert make my presence known

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and enjoy this beautiful hike so yeah looks like we're coming up on the first river crossing now

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damn that's cold

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Hey bear!

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Okay, so we got a bit of an outfit change here as you can see.

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Starting to heat up.

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Couldn't ask for better weather.

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if the only thing I got to deal with is some cold evenings, then that's a gosh darn good day.

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Wow.

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It's windy, but we made it baby.

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Let's go!

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Oh damn!

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Okay, now I gotta find a camping spot.

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Woo!

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Oh!

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Woo!

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Woo!

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Unreal.

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Oh baby, let's go!

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I'm sorry.

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I honestly can't even tell you how happy I am to have this tent up.

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After three failed attempts at setting up camp higher in elevation, I decided to settle on this spot,

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one kilometer back in the direction I came from.

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Here, there was far less wind.

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For now, anyways.

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This was my first real test of adversity

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and I'm glad it didn't end up worse than a broken mic and a lost stuff sack.

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Because for a second there, I thought I was about to lose the only shelter I have for the night.

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Alright guys, I gotta tell ya, I am friggin' gassed.

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My legs are so sore and yeah kind of just taking it easy.

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We're settling, settled at camp and obviously this wasn't my first choice of campsite but this place is beautiful you know.

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We still are right next to the river.

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We have this beautiful waterfall in behind if you can see that.

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And then this peak in behind me which is the view that I'll wake up to in the morning is unreal.

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So definitely no complaints.

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Yeah, just a small hiccup.

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But, you know, maybe that was Mother Nature trying to test me.

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You know, she knew I came on this thing trying to push my comfort zone.

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And she was like, okay, I'm going to throw something your way just to test you a little bit.

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And maybe that's what it was.

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But, yeah, we prevailed.

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We've set up camp in a new spot.

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It's far less windy.

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That wind was insane earlier.

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So I'm glad that that's over with.

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But, yeah, settled.

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I'm going to try to set a fire later when it gets a little bit darker.

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But yeah, just cozying up right now.

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After fueling up for the evening, I took some time to catch up on a book I've been reading.

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Green Lights by Matthew McConaughey.

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In his words, a green light is an affirmation of our way, a sign that we're on the right path.

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Sometimes they're obvious, other times not so much.

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For a moment they may appear red or yellow, but eventually they turn green.

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In other words, the struggles you're facing now will likely make more sense later,

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which is something I've been trying to hold onto as I navigate this rather dicey season of my life.

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You can never really know when the red light will turn green, you just have to trust that it will.

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It's pretty windy tonight as you can tell.

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Sometimes it feels like my tent is just going to completely cave in on itself.

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So it's kind of hard to sleep.

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I get woken up whenever the tent gets just bombarded with wind, but it's alright.

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One more night out here, and then we're back in a cozy bed.

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My gosh, this is actually insane.

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I feel like I'm about to blow away.

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I'm pretty sure the left side of my tent is no longer structurally sound,

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so I might have to get out of here and fix that because I can't sleep like this.

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There's no way.

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Look at this.

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Oh, it's coming again.

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Oh my gosh.

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This is actually insane.

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Alright.

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Alright.

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I gotta deal with this.

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I was hoping the rest of this story would kind of just right itself.

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An epic sunrise and a clear hike out to make the night of suffering worth it.

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But instead, I woke up to snow, cold and groggy from no more than two hours of sleep.

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But looking back on the past few days, I can't help but feel an overwhelming sense of pride.

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I did it.

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Beautiful.

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I did the thing that scared me for over three years and came out the other side.

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I guess I can take care of myself.

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That voice inside my head was wrong.

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And for the first time in a long time, I feel free.

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Still uncertain about my direction, but no longer in a rush to figure it out.

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Just curious to see where it goes.

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Greenlight.

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Deze spreekles is gebaseerd op de video “3 Days Alone in the Remote Canadian Wilderness”. Deze video bevat 217 zinnen en 2342 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 22:29. De spreker praat langzaam, ongeveer 104 woorden per minuut, zodat je tijd hebt om elke klank na te doen. 84% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken.

Belangrijke woorden in deze video

15 woorden uit de video die het leren waard zijn, met uitspraak en betekenis:

Woord	Uitspraak	Betekenis
trail zelfstandig naamwoord	/tɹeɪl/	spoor
insane bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/ɪnˈseɪn/	gestoord, waanzinnig
tent zelfstandig naamwoord	/tɛnt/	tent
hike zelfstandig naamwoord	/haɪk/	wandeling
gosh	/ɡɑːʃ/	gossie
sunrise zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈsʌnɹaɪz/	zonsopgang, zonsopkomst
unreal bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/ʌnˈɹi.əl/	onwerkelijk, irreëel
windy bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/ˈwɪn.di/	winderig
comfort zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈkʌm.fət/	comfort, gemak
reflect werkwoord	/ɹɪˈflɛkt/	weerkaatsen
grateful bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/ˈɡɹeɪtf(ə)l/	dankbaar
alert bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/əˈlɝt/	alert, waakzaam
explore werkwoord	/ɪkˈsploɹ/	onderzoeken, bestuderen
scare werkwoord	/skɛɚ/	bang maken, beangstigen
meadow zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈmɛd.əʊ̯/	weide

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

Woord	Uitspraak	Betekenis
set up werkwoord	/ˌsɛt ˈʌp/	bereiden, voorbereiden
come out werkwoord	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	uitkomen
wake up werkwoord	/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/	wakker worden, ontwaken
end up werkwoord		belanden, terechtkomen
find out werkwoord		ontdekken, onderzoeken
write down werkwoord		opschrijven, neerschrijven

Zinnen om te herhalen

Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:

I think that's what the mountains do to me.
It's windy, but we made it baby.
We've set up camp in a new spot.
It's pretty windy tonight as you can tell.
I feel like I'm about to blow away.

Grammatica in deze video

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 trying · I've been reading
Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt	I've always wanted · it's been · have been

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 76 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, gonna, I've. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

De “th”-klanken: thrive /θɹajv/, truthfully /ˈtɹuːθ.fəl.i/
De klanken “sh” en “zh”: gosh /ɡɑːʃ/, rush /ɹʌʃ/, shelter /ˈʃɛltə/, reception /ɹɪˈsɛp.ʃn̩/, shine /ʃaɪn/
Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: ridiculous /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/, incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/, desperately /ˈdɛs.p(ə.)ɹət.li/, adversity /ædˈvɜː.sɪ.ti/, indecision /ɪndɪˈsɪʒən/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: sunrise /ˈsʌnɹaɪz/, cave /keɪv/, anyways /ˈɛn.iˌweɪz/, nude /n(j)uːd/, gratitude /ˈɡɹæ.tɪ.tud/
/æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: narrow /ˈnæɹəʊ/, snap /snæp/, gratitude /ˈɡɹæ.tɪ.tud/, sack /sæk/, backyard /bækˈjɑːd/
/g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: gosh /ɡɑːʃ/, grateful /ˈɡɹeɪtf(ə)l/, gratitude /ˈɡɹæ.tɪ.tud/, glow /ɡloʊ/, exhaust /ɪɡˈzɔst/

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 trail, insane, tent.

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.

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Belangrijke woorden in deze video

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

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Grammatica in deze video

Uitspraak om op te letten

Zo oefen je met deze video

Wat is de Shadowing-techniek?