Shadowing Practice: 3 experts explain everything you need to know about loneliness - Learn English Speaking with Video
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- From a very young age, there's a stigma that we learn, where, if you're alone, something's wrong with you.
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Our perceptions and the stories that we tell ourselves about feeling lonely, in turn, change the behaviors that we go out and do in the world.
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When we feel lonely, we're more likely to start to ruminate, to catastrophize in social situations and to get caught up in these sort of negative thought patterns and beliefs but then influence our behaviors, but they also influence our brains and our bodies.
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- There are some studies that suggest, for example, that being without a close friend, being lonely is as bad for your health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day.
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- We often hear that being alone is bad for us.
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This messaging is getting us to believe that being alone is bad for us.
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But there are many situations in which being alone can actually be good for us.
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- Our social lives are rewiring our brains and in turn, changing the experience that we have inside of our bodies.
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Loneliness is not a reflection on who we are.
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It's a reflection of what we need.
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It's information. It's data.
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Loneliness starts out as a thought pattern or an emotion.
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This actually triggers a stress response in our body that is associated with heightened levels of cortisol, that's associated with more inflammation, which weakens our immune systems and actually makes us more susceptible to disease.
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We can see this in the neuroscience research.
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In one study, people went through mild electric shocks while looking at photos of either their romantic partner or a complete stranger.
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What researchers found was that people who are looking at a photo of their romantic partners reported feeling less fearful and the brain activity in the regions associated with pain was lower.
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People's perception differs according to whether or not they feel connected to another person.
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If we start to understand that health is not only physical and mental, it's also social that's going to change our behaviors.
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If you think about having rich friendships and being embedded in your community and having a really strong sense of support, that's going to completely transform the way that you experience the world.
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- I think a big question now is whether we're facing a friendship recession.
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That's the term that Daniel Cox, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, has used to describe this rise in the number of people who lack a certain number of close friends, who have fewer people to turn to in times of crisis.
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Today, 15% of young men say that they don't have a close friend.
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That was just 3% back in the 1990s.
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The pandemic, interestingly, there we see that it's women who've been most affected.
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With more than half of women saying they've lost touch with at least some of their friends.
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We've seen a decline in lots of traditional institutions, including a family, people marrying later if they do marry.
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Obviously in areas like religion. In some cases, the labor market.
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And so what that means is there's more of a need for people to have social relationships, connections outside of those institutions.
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That's where friends are hugely important.
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And so it's not just that being without friends can make you isolated in a sort of economic or social sense, but it can also make you sad.
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And being sad, it turns out, is also bad in terms of your physical as well as emotional health.
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There's obviously a dystopian version of how these trends could continue, which is a world of, essentially, atomized individuals without friends, isolated, perhaps in ill health.
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I think that's why we have to recognize that friendship is incredibly important for human flourishing.
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One of the necessary steps to making a friend is to admitting that you want to make a friend.
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To being open to that.
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That requires a certain vulnerability.
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And I think as we get older, there's sometimes a sense of shame that comes along with not having enough friends.
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And actually saying I need a friend is maybe one of the hardest sentences that any human being can utter.
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- There's been an increasing amount of attention over the past several years about the negative consequences of loneliness.
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We've done research on this and found that the media is approximately ten times more likely to describe experiences of being alone as negative as compared to positive.
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When we do research where we track people over time, what we see is that if you're the kind of person who thinks being alone is good for you, you actually feel good when you spend time alone.
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What I love about that finding is it gives us the opportunity to potentially intervene because we can shift people's beliefs about being alone.
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Rather than thinking about that experience as reflecting something wrong about me or the circumstances, we can reframe that situation as an opportunity to be creative, to be alone with our thoughts in a pleasant way.
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The more we talk about these things, the more gets on our minds and the more it penetrates into the culture more broadly.
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- Connection with yourself is as important as connection with other people.
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Being optimally socially healthy for you might be different than someone else based on how much socializing you enjoy, and what kinds of connection feel fulfilling to you.
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Loneliness is just an opportunity to go further, to explore your social health, to be a scientist in the laboratory that is your social life.
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We can broaden the Perception Box that you're living in and help you to feel more connected and overcome that isolated experience of loneliness.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau B2 is gebaseerd op de video “3 experts explain everything you need to know about loneliness”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: alone, loneliness, experience, connection. Deze video bevat 48 zinnen en 948 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 6:37. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 143 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. 86% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| loneliness zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈloʊnlinəs/ | eenzaamheid |
| isolate werkwoord | /ˈaɪ.sə.leɪt/ | isoleren |
| perception zelfstandig naamwoord | /pɚˈsɛpʃ(ə)n/ | perceptie, gewaarwording |
| reflection zelfstandig naamwoord | /ɹɪˈflɛkʃən/ | reflectie, weerspiegeling |
| broaden werkwoord | [ˈbɹɔː.dn̩] | verbreden, verruimen |
| dystopian bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /dɪsˈtoʊ.pi.ən/ | dystopisch |
| heighten werkwoord | /ˈhaɪ̯.tən/ | verhogen |
| neuroscience zelfstandig naamwoord | neurowetenschap | |
| ruminate werkwoord | /ˈɹumənət/ | herkauwen |
| weaken werkwoord | /ˈwikən/ | verzwakken |
| flourish werkwoord | /ˈflʊ̈ɹ.ɪʃ/ | floreren, bloeien |
| penetrate werkwoord | /ˈpɛnɪtɹeɪt/ | indringen, penetreren |
| fearful bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈfɪəfəl/ | angstig, bang |
| intervene werkwoord | /ˌɪntəˈviːn/ | ingrijpen, interveniëren |
| circumstance zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈsɝ.kəmˌstæns/ | omstandigheid |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Betekenis |
|---|---|
| go out werkwoord | naar buiten gaan |
| turn out werkwoord | uitvallen, resulteren |
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 have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | who've been · they've lost · We've seen |
| Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding | people who are · people who lack · continue, which is |
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | is associated · being embedded |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 10 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals you're, we're, we've. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: perception /pɚˈsɛpʃ(ə)n/, reflection /ɹɪˈflɛkʃən/, socialize /ˈsoʊʃəlaɪz/, flourish /ˈflʊ̈ɹ.ɪʃ/, inflammation /ɪnfləˈmeɪ̯ʃən/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: catastrophize /kəˈtæstɹəfaɪz/, dystopian /dɪsˈtoʊ.pi.ən/, vulnerability /ˌvʌln(ə)ɹəˈbɪlɪti/, inflammation /ɪnfləˈmeɪ̯ʃən/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: atomize /ˈætəmaɪz/, catastrophize /kəˈtæstɹəfaɪz/, socialize /ˈsoʊʃəlaɪz/, mild /ˈmaɪld/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: atomize /ˈætəmaɪz/, catastrophize /kəˈtæstɹəfaɪz/, circumstance /ˈsɝ.kəmˌstæns/, transform /tɹænsˈfɔɹm/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: stigma /ˈstɪɡmə/, cigarette /ˈsɪɡəɹɛt/
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 loneliness, isolate, perception.
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.