Shadowing Practice: 5 Questions to Ask Yourself Every Evening - Learn English Speaking with Video
Les maken...
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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you Our minds are some of the busiest places in the known universe.
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It's estimated that under a deceptively calm exterior,
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some 70 ,000 separate thoughts hurry through consciousness from the moment we wake up to the time we slip into sleep.
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What many of these thoughts have in common is that we seldom do them any kind of justice.
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The result is a kind of sensory overload and an immense difficulty processing what we've actually been through.
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We don't have time to feel the anger we're beset by.
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We don't have the wherewithal to give room to the sadness that nags at us.
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We can't on too many occasions properly think our own thoughts or feel our own feelings.
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But these thoughts and feelings do need to be understood and will protest more or less actively when they're not.
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Anger that hasn't been given its due will emerge as irritability.
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grief that hasn't been honoured will metastise into aimlessness and despair.
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What we call 'mental illnesses' are usually the outcome of periods of our lives
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that we haven't had the strength or opportunity to understand or mourn.
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What can help our troubles is self -exploration.
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And that's why we've produced five questions
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that we suggest can be rehearsed every evening on a regular basis and will help to appease the sources of our troubles.
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First question.
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What am I really worried about?
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This question recognises something rather unusual about how we operate.
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We frequently don't stop to ask ourselves what we're truly worried about.
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This sounds odd.
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Surely, if we're worried, we would be expected to pause rather quickly and explore why.
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But our minds seem not to work in this supremely logical -sounding way.
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They feel anxious long before they're ever motivated to ask themselves why they might be so.
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they can carry on for months, even years, under the fog of diffuse concern,
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before setting themselves the challenge of zeroing in on what is really at stake.
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So the question bids us to stop running and to turn around and look at what might actually be ailing us.
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The use of the word really is strategic.
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We often use one worry to shield us from another.
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We worry about an upcoming interview to protect us from worrying about the state of our relationship.
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We worry about money in order not to worry about death.
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So, it can be helpful to keep a supplementary inquiry in mind: what worry might lie behind the worry
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that is currently obsessing me?
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Second question: What am I presently sad about?
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We can make a generalisation: we go around being far braver than is good for us.
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Because we need to get on with the practicalities of the day, we frequently push to the side all the slights,
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hurts, disappointments and griefs that flow through our river of consciousness.
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We choose not to notice how vulnerable we are for fear that we cannot afford our own sensitivity.
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But stoicism and strength carry their own dangers.
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With the help of this question, we should give time to noticing that despite our competent and strong exteriors,
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lots of smaller and larger things have managed to hurt us today, like every day.
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Perhaps someone didn't laugh when we told a joke, our partner has been a little distant of late,
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a friend didn't call, a senior figure at work was less than completely impressed.
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We don't need to mock ourselves.
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We aren't weaklings for being fragile.
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In fact, there is no clearer evidence of our maturity than our capacity to explore the ways in which we, like everyone else on the planet,
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are a sensitive and easily bruised as a child.
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Third question.
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Who has annoyed me? And how?
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We want to be polite, of course.
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We're attached to the norms of civilisation.
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It upsets us to think we might be upset.
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Nevertheless, here too, we need to have the courage of our actual sensitivity.
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No day goes by without someone annoying us in some rather fundamental way, usually without them in any way meaning to.
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Our spirits will be lighter if we can bring ourselves to spell out the injury.
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What happened?
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How did it make us feel?
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What might we tell ourselves to re -find equilibrium?
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If we were lucky, we used to do this sort of thing with a kindly parent when we returned home from school.
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Now, as careful guardians to ourselves, we can internalise the process and use our inner adult to soothe the always easily flustered,
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but also easily calmed, in a child.
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Fourth question.
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What does my body want?
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Much of what we feel but don't process has a habit of ending up in our bodies.
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That's why we develop backache, tense shoulders, knotted stomachs and fluttery hearts.
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In order to live more easily around our bodies, we should regularly drain them of the emotions that they have unfairly been burdened with.
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We should mentally scan our bodies from top to toe and ask ourselves what each organ might require.
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What do my shoulders want to tell me?
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What would my stomach want to say?
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What does my back need?
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What do my legs crave?
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The questions may sound strange, What is surprising is that we're likely to have some very concrete answers just waiting for us when we ask.
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Fifth question.
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What is still lovely?
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Despite so much that's difficult, every day brings us up against a range of things that still delight and enchant us.
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Often these elements are small: the light on the kitchen wall in the morning, a child holding its parent's hand at the bus stop, a fig we had at lunchtime.
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These might not sound like things we should bother to register.
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But, summoned up in their full richness and held in our attention for a few moments, they can help to fortify us against the voices of despair.
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We tend to assume that if something is lovely, it will strike our minds as being so, with full force, without us needing to do anything supplementary.
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The reality is stranger.
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We need to make a conscious effort to squeeze joy out of beneficial elements that might otherwise be forgotten without notice.
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Our lives have some lovely aspects to them.
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But we may, surprisingly, regularly and rather clumsily, have to make a list of them in order to realize that they exist.
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When Socrates, apparently the wisest man of antiquity, was asked to define our highest purpose as human beings,
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he offered a still legendary answer: to know ourselves.
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We should aspire to be people who never cease to try to make sense of themselves at the close of every day.
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We should devote ourselves constantly to trying to shrink the scale of the darkness within us, bringing what was once in shadow closer to the light of interpretation.
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so that we stand a chance of becoming slightly less frantic and rather more joyful, creative and calm creatures.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau B2 is gebaseerd op de video “5 Questions to Ask Yourself Every Evening”. Deze video bevat 90 zinnen en 1168 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 7:22. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 158 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. 14 van de 90 zinnen zijn vragen, dus het is goede oefening voor vraagintonatie en korte antwoorden.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| annoy werkwoord | /əˈnoɪ̯/ | ergeren, vervelen |
| supplementary bijvoeglijk naamwoord | aanvullend | |
| despair zelfstandig naamwoord | /dɪˈspɛə(ɹ)/ | wanhoop |
| sensitivity zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˌsɛn.səˈtɪv.ə.ti/ | gevoeligheid |
| grief zelfstandig naamwoord | /ɡɹiːf/ | rouw, leedwezen |
| consciousness zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈkɑnʃəsnəs/ | bewustzijn |
| antiquity zelfstandig naamwoord | /ænˈtɪk.wə.ti/ | oudheid |
| appease werkwoord | /əˈpiːz/ | kalmeren |
| aspire werkwoord | /əˈspaɪɚ/ | ambiëren, nastreven |
| backache zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈbækeɪk/ | rugpijn |
| bruise zelfstandig naamwoord | /bɹuz/ | blauwe plek |
| enchant werkwoord | /ɪnˈt͡ʃænt/ | betoveren |
| frantic bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈfɹæn.tɪk/ | panisch |
| generalisation zelfstandig naamwoord | generalisatie | |
| internalize werkwoord | /ɪnˈtɝnəlaɪz/ | internaliseren |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Betekenis |
|---|---|
| get on with werkwoord | aan de gang gaan met, doorgaan |
| turn around werkwoord | omdraaien |
Zinnen om te herhalen
Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:
- What am I really worried about?
- How did it make us feel?
- What might we tell ourselves to re -find equilibrium?
- What does my body want?
- What do my shoulders want to tell me?
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 we're worried, we would be · if something is lovely, it will strike |
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | be understood · been given · been honoured |
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | we've actually been · hasn't been given · hasn't been honoured |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 21 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals don't, we're, didn't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De “th”-klanken: soothe /suːð/, wherewithal /ˈwɛɚ.wɪ.ðɔl/
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: consciousness /ˈkɑnʃəsnəs/, civilisation /ˌsɪv.ɪ.lɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, beneficial /ˌbɛn.ɪˈfɪʃ.əl/, anxious /ˈæŋkʃəs/, conscious /ˈkɑn.ʃəs/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: sensitivity /ˌsɛn.səˈtɪv.ə.ti/, antiquity /ænˈtɪk.wə.ti/, civilisation /ˌsɪv.ɪ.lɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, deceptively /dɪˈsɛptɪvli/, internalize /ɪnˈtɝnəlaɪz/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: appease /əˈpiːz/, bruise /bɹuz/, diffuse /dɪˈfjuz/, internalize /ɪnˈtɝnəlaɪz/, overload /ˌəʊvəˈləʊd/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: antiquity /ænˈtɪk.wə.ti/, backache /ˈbækeɪk/, enchant /ɪnˈt͡ʃænt/, frantic /ˈfɹæn.tɪk/, attach /əˈtæt͡ʃ/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: grief /ɡɹiːf/, weakling /ˈwiːkˈlɪŋɡ/, organ /ˈɔːɡən/
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 annoy, supplementary, despair.
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.