Shadowing Practice: 5 Lessons My Mentors Taught Me | Robin Sharma - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Hi, it's Robin Sharma, author of The Leader Who Had No Title, founder of the Titan Academy, and I'm so pleased to welcome you to this Mastery Session.
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This Mastery Session is all about five leadership lessons my mentors have taught me.
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I think it was the mathematician Newton who once said, if I have seen more than others it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.
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And I don't know if you have a mentor, but if you don't have a mentor, you want to get a mentor as swiftly as possible.
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Because we become our influences.
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We become our conversations.
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We think like and we perform like the people we surround ourselves with in our orbit.
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And one of the things that has served me
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so well is populating my professional life and my personal life with people who are at a higher level than I'm at, and they are called mentors.
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When I was 21 years old, I lived in a relatively small city on the east coast of Canada,
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and I was very blessed to be associated with a mentor who was a financial epic performer.
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He was doing very, very well in the capital markets.
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And I just looked at his lifestyle, and I looked at his belief system, and we used to go for these long, wonderful walks in the forest that was also along the seaside on the east coast of Canada.
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And one day, it was a sunny day in the summer, and he said something to me I still remember to this day.
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He said, Robin, run your own race.
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And that's really the first lesson I learned from one of my mentors.
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Run your own race.
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Stay in your own lane.
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You know, you have no competition if you are in your own division.
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And what I mean by that is simply this, It's so easy to get swept off your game, swept off your vision, swept off your values,
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swept off your focus when you're measuring your success
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and your performance by your so -called peers in your industry or your competition within your craft.
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And that first lesson was so profound.
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He simply said, run your own race.
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You know, come up with your ambition, come up with your vision and have this singular focus and the character discipline to say,
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I'm just going to put these blinders on and stay true to myself, true to my values, true to my vision.
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So the first thing, run your own race, stay in your own lane.
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Measure success by how close you're getting to your mountaintop versus the mountaintop of your competition or your neighbors.
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The second leadership lesson I learned from my mentors is be willing to be eccentric.
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You know, you can be like the 95 % or you can play in rare air.
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You can't do both.
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And if you are going to play in rare air, then that means you're going to shift from the belief system and the mindsets and the heart sets of the majority.
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And that's going to be unpopular.
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And you're going to feel confused.
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One pundit said it so well.
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He said, if you are confused, celebrate it.
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It means you are still free.
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You know, it's the people who are asleep.
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The people who are coasting through their lives.
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You know, that silent majority, the 95%, watching too much TV, self -medicating with too much gossip,
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being busy, being busy, no juice within them they've lost the fire in their belly
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and they're in this silent pain of potential unexpressed going through life and they think it's okay.
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And what I'm suggesting to you on this second leadership lesson
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I've learned from my mentors is as you shift from the herd
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and rise to the rare air of that 5 % or the top 0 .0001%, you're going to have to think differently.
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You're going to have to feel differently.
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You're going to have to install different rituals.
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You're going to have to perform in different habits.
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You're going to have to be eccentric.
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And what I'm encouraging you is develop the character power to get good with being strange.
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Develop the interior bravery to be comfortable being eccentric.
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And if people ridicule you, and if they laugh at you, and if they don't understand you, please remember every great leader,
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every bold genius was misunderstood.
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The third leadership lesson that I've learned from my mentors is stand for world class.
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I look around the world right now and it's not judgment, it's simply reporting.
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But in business, I spent most of my life, whether it's at my annual flagship event, the Titan Summit, or whether it's working with the Fortune 500,
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or whether it's being a private advisor to a lot of celebrity billionaires,
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what I'm noticing in business right now is what I call the collective deprofessionalization of business.
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You see people who are at work, let's say on the shop floor, or maybe it's a runway outside of an airplane, or maybe it's at a hotel or in a restaurant,
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and rather than having a laser -like focus to doing world -class work.
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they're checking their mobile devices or they're chit -chatting or they're gossiping, you know.
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And even personally, I mean, I was in a hotel the other day and I saw a guest in the lobby
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laying on the couch like it was his bedroom or like his living room.
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He had no shoes on.
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His feet were like up on the arm of the sofa.
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And I've noticed that.
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Like it's this collective deprofessionalization in business where people are forgetting that when you are at work at showtime.
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Bring on your A -game.
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And I'm seeing even in society as large as I crisscross the planet, people are treating public spaces like it's their home.
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You know, even yesterday, it was a lovely summer's day, and I went to this park, and it was the end of my work day, and it was a really long day.
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And I just wanted to sort of soak in the beauty
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of the moment before I went home to spend time with my loved ones.
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And there were some people around me, and their phones were going off, and they didn't have the courtesy to turn it on to low or on to vibrate.
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And then they also had it on, what do you call it, where you actually can hear the speaker.
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The speaker was on.
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And all I'm saying is, if you want to live your best life, If you want to own your game in your industry,
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if you want to live a life that makes history, raise your standards.
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Raise your standards of how you live.
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Raise your standards to world class in terms of the work you do.
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Raise your standards in terms of your conversations.
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Raise your standards in terms of the friends you have.
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Raise the standards to world class in terms of the food you eat.
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Raise your standards in terms of your daily rituals
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because genius is less about inherited genetics and much more about your installed habits.
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Raise your standards about your beliefs.
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Raise your standards about the way you interact with your customers.
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You know, go the extra mile.
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Every moment in front of a customer is a moment of truth.
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You can stand for the highest of values or you can just be average like so many performers out there.
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So I really want you to dial into.
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Are you living at a level that is world -class in terms of the standards right across the board?
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The third thing I learned from one of my mentors,
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he had been a very iconic lawyer and he simply taught me the importance of rigor and depth.
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And so the fourth leadership lesson is be deep versus be Be light, be deep.
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I mean, this is a gorgeous opportunity to build a monopoly of mastery within your industry.
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I mean, you wanna be so good at what you do that when we watch you in action, tears come to our eyes.
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People rise to their feet and applaud you.
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And how do you do that?
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Well, you separate yourself from the way most people operate in business and in life.
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You go deep.
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We live in a world that is really suffering from the cult of superficiality.
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Everything is fast, everything is quick, everything is light.
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Imagine you resolve today, I will be deep.
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When I do work, when I work on a project, when I build a client relationship, when I work with a personal relationship, when I install a new habit, it's not gonna be light.
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I'm not gonna be superficial, I'm gonna go deep.
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I'm gonna bring rigor to my game.
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Let's say you're installing a new habit but let's say it's my famous 5 a .m club.
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You start reading all the literature on the neurobiology of early rising.
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You actually read all of the books on habit installation.
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You actually find a coach, let's say, to help you install the 5 a .m.
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routine.
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You actually build out a protocol to mark your progress.
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I'm just saying, could you imagine, rather than going very wide in your work or very wide in your personal life,
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you dial it in with a monomaniacal focus to be genius level at just a few things, that's rigor.
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And rigor is really an approach.
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I was in Luzern, Switzerland a few months ago, and I was working on my new book, and someone delivered some tea,
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and I'd asked for some fresh lemon, and what I noticed is whoever had sliced the lemons took the time to de -seed the lemon wedges
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and that's really your metaphor for this podcast you know that's
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what you know this lesson is all about the fourth leadership
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lesson be deep versus be light it's about de -seeding the lemon wedges on the areas of focus
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that are most important to you anyone can just cut the lemon wedges
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and hand them to you but this producer had the discipline the bravery the acumen the commitment the devotion
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to actually take the time to de -seed the lemon wedges.
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And then the final thing I'm gonna leave you with, the fifth leadership lesson my mentors have taught me. Be kind.
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One mentor in particular comes to my mind.
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He was in his 80s
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and one of the things I got right was I made
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sure I put it onto my agenda earlier this year to get on an airplane
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and to carve out a morning where I spent a few hours with this vast mentor who had shaped my life.
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This was a man when I was in my early 20s, I was blessed to work with him.
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And from him, I learned excellence.
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And from him, I learned great humility.
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And from him, I learned a gentleness of spirit.
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And from him, I learned so much about what it takes to be a true leader, what it takes to be a legendary person, what it takes to build great relationships,
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what it takes to be an instrument of service in the world
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and he was in his twilight when i met him on
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that um early spring morning and he blessed me with two hours of his day
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and i used that opportunity to be grateful
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because i think gratitude is a great way to go through life
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and when i left him i asked him i said um you know what's most important And he said,
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Robin, be kind.
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And he sort of leaned back while he still looked at him, and he said, Robin, oh, that's so important. Be kind.
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And then he reached over, and he hugged me, and he said, I love you.
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And about four months later, I received news that he had passed away.
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But I've never forgotten the importance of that simple idea, which is simply profound. Be kind.
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Thank you, and I hope this podcast has been of service to you.
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Hi, this is Robin Sharma.
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I hope you received great value from this Mastery Session.
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If you'd like to receive potent training videos, blog posts, learning tools, and information on my two live events,
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Personal Mastery Academy, me and my flagship four -day experience, the Titan Summit, go ahead and visit RobinCharmer .com.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles is gebaseerd op de video “5 Lessons My Mentors Taught Me”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: mentor, lesson, standards, raise, learned. Deze video bevat 150 zinnen en 2076 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 12:36. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 165 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. 83% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| mentor zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈmɛn.tɔː/ | mentor, leidsman |
| lesson zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈlɛs.ən/ | les |
| lemon zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈlɛmən/ | citroen |
| habit zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈhæb.ɪt/ | gewoonte |
| install werkwoord | /ɪnˈstɔl/ | installeren, aansluiten |
| sweep werkwoord | /swiːp/ | vegen |
| wedge zelfstandig naamwoord | /wɛd͡ʒ/ | wig, spie |
| belief zelfstandig naamwoord | /bɪˈliːf/ | geloof |
| genius zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈd͡ʒin.jəs/ | genie |
| versus | /ˈvɝsəs/ | tegen |
| eccentric bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ɪkˈsɛntɹɪk/ | excentrisch |
| confused bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /kənˈfjuːzd/ | verward, in de war |
| silent bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈsaɪ̯lənt/ | stil |
| collective bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /kəˈlɛktɪv/ | collectief |
| differently bijwoord | /ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/ | verschillend, anders |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Betekenis |
|---|---|
| come up with werkwoord | bedenken, verzinnen |
| go off werkwoord | afgaan |
| pass away werkwoord | overlijden, ontslapen |
Zinnen om te herhalen
Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:
- You know, it's the people who are asleep.
- You're going to have to feel differently.
- You're going to have to install different rituals.
- You're going to have to perform in different habits.
- You're going to have to be eccentric.
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 | have taught · have seen · has served |
| Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding | people who are · idea, which is |
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | are called · be associated · was misunderstood |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 45 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, you're, gonna. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: flagship /ˈflæɡʃɪp/, shoe /ˈʃu/, installation /ˌɪn.stəˈleɪ.ʃən/, ambition /æmˈbɪʃ.ən/, devotion /dɪˈvoʊʃən/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: differently /ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/, celebrity /səˈlɛb.ɹɪ.ɾi/, legendary /ˈlɛd͡ʒ.ənˌdɛɹ.i/, installation /ˌɪn.stəˈleɪ.ʃən/, monopoly /məˈnɑpəli/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: wedge /wɛd͡ʒ/, confused /kənˈfjuːzd/, collective /kəˈlɛktɪv/, profound /pɹəˈfaʊnd/, encourage /ɪnˈkʌɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: habit /ˈhæb.ɪt/, mastery /ˈmæs.tɚ.i/, podcast /ˈpɑdˌkæst/, flagship /ˈflæɡʃɪp/, vast /væst/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: gossip /ˈɡɑsɪp/, flagship /ˈflæɡʃɪp/, gorgeous /ˈɡoɹd͡ʒəs/, grateful /ˈɡɹeɪtf(ə)l/, hug /hʌɡ/
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 mentor, lesson, lemon.
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.