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Hey English learners, welcome to this A2 English listening practice video.

In today's video, I'm going to talk about soft skills.

Soft skills are the skills that we have that aren't technical, right?

In particular, today, I want to talk about soft skills related to communication and how you can use these skills,

these soft skills, to improve your communication.

And of course, when you speak English,

when you speak a foreign language,

it's good to have these skills.

They'll make your communication better and more effective in any language that you speak.

So that's what we're going to talk about today.

And remember to check out my listening practice seminars.

You can join my membership and get access to those seminars to help you understand when native speakers speak fast.

I know that a lot of you have trouble understanding fast English,

and that's why I have those seminars to help you train

and help you understand different patterns that can be hard to understand when people speak fast.

And also, if you want to start speaking and you need a teacher,

then I highly recommend that you check out my U.S.

Conversations podcast because in that podcast,

I talk to many different English teachers from around the U.S.

And so you can hear and listen to my conversations with those teachers

and see if you like them and take a class with one of them.

So those links are down below.

Okay, let's talk about soft skills.

So as I already mentioned,

soft skills are the skills that we have that aren't technical.

So both soft skills and hard skills are important.

In some fields, hard skills are more important than soft skills.

But in some fields, soft skills might be equally as important or even more important than hard skills.

And for me, in my experience,

I don't have a lot of hard skills.

I don't have a lot of technical skills except for skills related to language,

writing, linguistics, things like that.

But I do have some soft skills that have helped me develop my career.

Specifically, my way of communicating,

my way of speaking these skills have helped me make content for English learners

and people tend to like my way of talking the way I speak and so these aren't technical skills,

these are soft skills, but they have been really important for me in my career.

And I think that soft skills related to communication are really important.

And you are a language learner and so you should care about

communicating well and having good soft skills that can help you

when you interact with other people in English or in any other language.

So let me talk about some specific soft skills related to communication that can really help you.

So number one is adjusting your speech to different audiences.

So many people lack this skill.

They aren't able to change the way that they speak depending on who is listening to them.

And I think most people could improve in this area.

I've seen many instances where an English speaker is talking to someone who doesn't speak English well,

but the English speaker doesn't change the way that they speak to help the other person understand them.

They just talk really fast and use complicated phrases and idioms and things like that.

And they aren't able to adjust the way that they speak so that the person listening to them can understand better.

And this isn't just for talking to people who don't speak your language well.

We talk differently to adults,

to kids, teenagers, people who are a lot older than us,

people who we need to show a lot of respect towards.

There are different ways to talk to different people

and we need to use the appropriate language and tone and formality depending on our audience.

So this is an important soft skill to have

because it will allow you to communicate in the proper way to different people.

And that is something that we want to be able to do.

Another soft skill related to communication is being able to read other people meaning you can see the other person

and feel how they are feeling and you can imagine how they might be thinking how comfortable they are,

things like that.

You want to be able to tell when a person is uncomfortable,

when they're uneasy, like they don't feel very good,

or maybe if they're uninterested in what you're saying,

or if if they're not understanding what you're saying.

It's important to be able to identify this so that you can adjust the way that you're talking

so that the other person responds better, right?

I think that's an important soft skill to have.

It can help you keep the other person engaged and comfortable with the conversation, right?

Another soft skill that's really important is being able to listen well.

Be a good listener, right?

We want to listen to other people with interest.

We want to be genuinely interested what other people are saying.

When you show a genuine interest, people can feel that.

People see that and it makes them feel more comfortable around you.

It makes them want to talk to you.

So that's good and it's good to show

that you're listening right you nod you use some affirmations like yes uh-huh you show the other person

that you're listening that's important uh it's good to react to what the other person is saying it shows

that you're listening when you have a genuine reaction

when they say different things um it's good to ask questions about things that they say.

All of these things are part of being a good listener and they will help you have better interactions with people.

It's also a good thing to be able to create a comfortable atmosphere.

That's a good soft skill.

Smile and laugh.

That's important.

Add humor when it's appropriate.

People like to laugh.

They like humor.

If you can add this naturally to the interaction, that can really help.

It makes the other person feel better when talking to you.

They're more interested in talking to you, probably.

And you want to make the other person feel comfortable sharing their opinions,

talking about their feelings, sharing stories with you.

You want to create a comfortable atmosphere so that the other person feels comfortable to do those things.

And one other soft skill that is important to have is to be concise,

meaning you can communicate something effectively without using too many words.

It's okay to talk and use a lot of words.

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That's not bad.

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when we're trying to communicate important ideas,

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it's important to be able to do so in a concise way to really help them understand the point.

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I've had this experience before where I'm in a group of people

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and one person starts telling a story and they're not being concise

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and it's hard to understand what the point of the story

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is until the very end after they've talked for a long time

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and I can see that the other people are kind of losing interest

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and they don't get the point of what is being said because the other person who's telling the story isn't being concise.

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They aren't able to effectively communicate the message in a concise way,

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and that causes other people to lose interest,

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or they stop paying attention,

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or they just wonder, hmm,

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why is he telling this story?

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So being concise is an important soft skill to have.

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There are many other soft skills that are important,

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but those are the ones I wanted to talk about today.

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Hopefully, this video got you thinking about how you can improve in these areas

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so that you can have better interactions in English or in your native language.

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So, I hope you enjoyed this video.

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remember to check out my listening practice seminars by becoming a Listening Time family member

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so you can train your listening with me and start to understand better when people speak fast.

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And check out my U.S.

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Conversations podcast so you can practice listening to my conversations that I have with other English teachers.

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So that's a great resource for your listening

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and you can also use it to find an English teacher to take classes online with.

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So those links are down below.

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Thank you all for listening to this A2 English Listening Practice video,

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and I'll talk to you in the next one.

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Deze spreekles op niveau A2 is gebaseerd op de video “A2 English Listening Practice - Soft Skills”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: skill, soft, listening, English, speak. Deze video bevat 128 zinnen en 1434 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 14:04. De spreker praat langzaam, ongeveer 102 woorden per minuut, zodat je tijd hebt om elke klank na te doen. 90% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is goed te volgen.

Belangrijke woorden in deze video

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

Woord	Uitspraak	Betekenis
skill zelfstandig naamwoord	/skɪl/	bekwaamheid, vaardigheid
communicate werkwoord	/kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/	meedelen, mededelen
interaction zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˌɪn.təˈɹæk.ʃən/	wisselwerking, interactie
podcast zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈpɑdˌkæst/	podcast
adjust werkwoord	/əˈd͡ʒʌst/	aanpassen, verstellen
atmosphere zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈætməsˌfɪɹ/	atmosfeer, dampkring
genuine bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/ˈd͡ʒɛn.juˌɪn/	echt, authentiek
depend werkwoord	/dɪˈpɛnd/	afhangen
humour zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈhjuːmɚ/	humor
listener zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈlɪs(ə)nɚ/	luisteraar, toehoorder
tone zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈtəʊn/	toon, noot
naturally bijwoord	/ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/	natuurlijk
complicated bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/	ingewikkeld, gecompliceerd
membership zelfstandig naamwoord		lidmaatschap
equally bijwoord	/ˈiːkwəli/	even, gelijk

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:

I don't have a lot of hard skills.
I think that's an important soft skill to have.
They're more interested in talking to you, probably.

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 helped · have been · I've seen
Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding	someone who doesn · people who don · people who are
Werkwoord + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — werkwoorden die door de -ing-vorm worden gevolgd	start speaking · starts telling · stop paying
Vergrotende trap -er than / more … than — twee dingen vergelijken	more important than · older than

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 35 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals aren't, you're, don't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

De klanken “sh” en “zh”: interaction /ˌɪn.təˈɹæk.ʃən/, affirmation /æfɝˈmeɪʃn/
Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: communicate /kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/, interaction /ˌɪn.təˈɹæk.ʃən/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, complicated /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/, differently /ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: depend /dɪˈpɛnd/, complicated /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/, engage /ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒ/, phrase /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/
/æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: interaction /ˌɪn.təˈɹæk.ʃən/, podcast /ˈpɑdˌkæst/, atmosphere /ˈætməsˌfɪɹ/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, react /ɹiːˈækt/
/g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: engage /ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒ/, linguistics /lɪŋˈɡwɪstɪks/

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 skill, communicate, interaction.

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