Shadowing Practice: 6 Kasım 2026 - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Hello, I'm Neil.
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And I'm Georgie.
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Welcome to Real Easy English.
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You can find a worksheet and transcript for this episode on our website, bbclearningenglish .com.
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Hello Neil, how are you doing?
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I'm very well, thank you Georgie.
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How are you?
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Yes, I'm very well, thank you.
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Neil, today we're talking about cities.
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We both live and work in London, which is a very big city.
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It is.
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It's a huge city.
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Very busy and bustling.
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Bustling means there's lots of activity, lots of things going on, busy.
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Speaking of, what do you like about living in a big, bustling city?
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Well, there are lots of good things about living in a big city.
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It's convenient.
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It's very convenient.
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So there is lots of public transport, which is sometimes good.
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And you can get things that you need quite easily.
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That's very true.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, there's also a lot of things to do.
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We are lucky in London to have lots of theatres where you can see plays
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there's a really good music scene so you can watch
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and listen to a lot of live music
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if you have no plans on a day you can always find plans um spontaneous plans
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so we are really lucky in that sense yeah and
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if you like art there's all kinds of exhibitions and galleries and museums
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Lots of good things, but there are obviously some bad things about living in a city, aren't there?
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Yes.
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Do you want to tell us some?
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Yeah.
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Well, it's very noisy and dirty and busy and expensive.
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It's always more expensive in a big city, especially the capital city um
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so you can do all of the things
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that we just talked about yeah but you have to pay yeah
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and things like eating out especially going for a drink is really expensive thing to do in a capital city
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i feel like every time i leave the house i just spend loads of money
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and that is quite frustrating
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but you have to pay for good for good times
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i guess yeah have you ever lived in another city apart from london yes
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i have i used to live in barcelona
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which is quite different to london because well it has a beach
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and the sea on one side and on the other side it has mountains
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so it's contained by nature and you can get to the nature quite quickly um
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which is really nice what about you have you lived anywhere different yeah
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i've lived in a few big cities uh a few capital cities actually um i've also lived in spain
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but in madrid i lived and worked in prague and
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that is a really pretty
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it's a beautiful city yeah the architecture looks fantastic nice buildings talking about nice buildings i lived in edinburgh
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because i did my
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master's degree there and that has beautiful buildings i loved
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that city it has a castle on a big rock in the middle
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and it's just amazing to look at so we've talked about cities we've been two, what about the future?
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Are there any cities you really want to visit or maybe even live in?
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Oh, that's an interesting question.
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I've never been to Georgia or Armenia or that part of the world.
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So I'm going to say I'd like to go to Tbilisi in Georgia.
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That's a good answer.
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I'd love to go there as well.
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For me, I'm desperate to go to Latin America.
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I really want to go to Rio de
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Janeiro and at the time when the carnival is there, because that sounds really fun and I like to party.
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Let's recap the vocabulary we heard during the conversation, starting with bustling, which means busy, with lots of people and activity.
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We also heard convenient.
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If something is convenient, it means it's very easy to do it.
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For example, there's lots of public transport in London, so it's convenient for travel.
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And we talked about possible plans for the future using would like to.
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For example, I'd like to visit Tbilisi in Georgia.
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That's it for this episode of Real Easy English, but we'll be back next week with another conversation in Easy English.
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And you should check out our series, the London to Edinburgh Challenge.
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We've been talking about Edinburgh today.
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It's a beautiful place and you can see it in this series it's on our website, bbclearningenglish .com.
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Goodbye for now.
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Goodbye.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles is gebaseerd op de video “6 Kasım 2026”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: lived, london, convenient, cities, bustling. Deze video bevat 76 zinnen en 747 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 5:36. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 133 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
12 woorden uit de video die het leren waard zijn, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| convenient bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /kənˈviː.niənt/ | geschikt, gemakkelijk |
| goodbye | /ɡʊdˈbaɪ/ | tot ziens, tot weerziens |
| castle zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈkɑːsəl/ | kasteel, fort |
| architecture zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɑː.kɪˌtɛk.t͡ʃə/ | architectuur, bouwstijl |
| exhibition zelfstandig naamwoord | /ɛksɪˈbɪʃən/ | tentoonstelling |
| desperate bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈdɛs.p(ə.)ɹɪt/ | wanhopig, vertwijfeld |
| carnival zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈkɑɹnɪvəl/ | carnaval |
| vocabulary zelfstandig naamwoord | /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/ | woordenschat, vocabulaire |
| spontaneous bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /spɑnˈteɪ.ni.əs/ | spontaan |
| noisy bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈnɔɪzi/ | lawaaierig |
| bustle zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈbʌsəl/ | cul de Paris |
| frustrate werkwoord | /ˈfɹʌsˌtɹeɪt/ | frustreren |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Betekenis |
|---|---|
| check out werkwoord | onderzoeken |
Zinnen om te herhalen
Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:
- Yes, I'm very well, thank you.
- Neil, today we're talking about cities.
- Do you want to tell us some?
- I'd love to go there as well.
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 | i've lived · we've talked · I've never been |
| Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding | London, which is · transport, which is · bustling, which means |
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — iets dat nu of in deze periode gebeurt | are you doing · we're talking |
| Verplichting: must / have to / need to zeggen dat iets nodig is | have to pay |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 18 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, I'd, I've. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: architecture /ˈɑː.kɪˌtɛk.t͡ʃə/, exhibition /ɛksɪˈbɪʃən/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, spontaneous /spɑnˈteɪ.ni.əs/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, transcript /ˈtɹæn.skɹɪpt/, recap /ɹiːˈkæp/
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 convenient, goodbye, castle.
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.