Shadowing Practice: Advanced Vocabulary and Accent Practice for Fluency - Learn English Speaking with Video
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True English fluency means being able to understand news articles and being able to talk about a wide variety of subjects.
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Let's learn some advanced vocabulary and let's practice the American accent by reading a news article.
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You will have a chance to repeat after me to make sure you're pronouncing the words correctly
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and that you're stressing the right words and that your English has the write melody and intonation.
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And then at the end, there will be a fill in the blank quiz to find out how many of the new words you remember.
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This article is from the Los Angeles Times.
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The title of the article is The Most Lucrative Majors?
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Some Community College Grads Can Out-earn Elite University Peers.
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The article contains some very useful words.
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It talks about the salaries that university students make after they graduate.
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Students who graduate from the top universities don't necessarily make the most money.
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Let's look at the headline again and let's learn the vocabulary.
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The most lucrative majors.
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What does lucrative mean?
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Lucrative means producing a lot of money, profitable.
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For example, you can say, the real estate market can be very lucrative if you invest wisely.
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Or you can say, he has a lucrative business.
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So the most lucrative majors means the university majors, the things that you specialize in, the subjects that you major in.
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Which majors paid the most money?
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And do you know the difference between a university and a community college?
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A community college is a two-year college that offers courses to local residence
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and it's typically at a lower cost than a four-year college or university.
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In the United States, many students choose to attend a community college before transferring to a four-year university.
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So, the first two years of their college education is at a community college and then when they transfer to a university,
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they only have two more years left.
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They don't have to start from the beginning.
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So it's still a four-year education and you get your diploma from the university.
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But for the first two years, you saved a lot of money because you went to a community college.
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However, some people don't plan to transfer.
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Some people just get an AA degree and that's a two-year degree.
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The article says community college grads.
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The word grad is a short form of graduate, meaning someone who has completed a degree.
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For example, we can say a high school grad or a college grad.
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The headline of the article says, some community college grads can out-earn elite university peers.
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To out-earn means to earn more money than someone else.
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For example, we can say, does a doctor out earn a lawyer?
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Who makes more money?
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Or we can say, with hard work, I was able to out earn my previous year's income.
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Or you can say, I can't believe he out earns me.
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I can't believe he makes more money than I do.
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I work harder.
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So, some community college grads can out earn elite university peers.
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An elite university is a prestigious university known for its academic excellence and they're usually very difficult to get into.
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For example, Harvard University or Stanford or MIT or Yale, Princeton, these are all considered elite universities.
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And do you know the meaning of the word peers?
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Your peers are people who are at the same age as you
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or maybe at the same level at work or maybe the same educational level.
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For example, you can say, the 10-year-old boy is taller than his peers.
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Or, he makes more money than his peers.
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He out-earns his peers.
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Or we can say, this scientist is very well respected by his peers.
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And that means by other scientists.
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And now, let's read the headline together.
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I will pause to give you a chance to repeat after me.
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The most lucrative majors.
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and look at the T of lucrative.
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Don't say lucrative.
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With an American accent, we say it like this, lucrative.
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Let's say that again.
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The most lucrative majors?
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Some community college grads can out-earn elite university peers.
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You say it.
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And now let's look at the first paragraph of the article.
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I will read it first and then I will explain the vocabulary and then we will read it together.
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Elijah Calderon, after a year-long training program at Los Angeles Trade Technical College,
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is poised to earn about $105,000 annually as a power lineman.
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Once he becomes a journeyman in three to four years,
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he stands to make about $165,000 and potentially much more with overtime.
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Let's look at the word year-long.
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Year long means lasting for the duration of a year, spanning the entire year.
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For example, we can say the project was a year long effort or they planned a year long trip.
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So the student Elijah just studied for one year.
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It was a year long training program.
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The article says that he is poised to earn about $105,000 annually as a power lineman.
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Quist to means ready or prepared to do something or about to start doing something.
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So when he graduates, he will start earning over $100,000 annually.
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We can say with her qualifications, she is poised to take on a leadership role in the company.
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Or you can say the company is poised to launch its new product in the market.
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Elijah is poised to earn over $100,000 annually as a power lineman.
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And this is a power lineman.
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A power lineman works on electrical power lines.
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You can say the power lineman worked hard to restore electricity after the storm.
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And Elijah stands to make about $165,000.
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And to stand to means to be likely to or to be expected to.
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For example, we can say, if you invest wisely, you stand to make a big profit
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or you stand to lose a lot if you don't act quickly.
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He stands to make a lot more than $165,000 if he works overtime.
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And overtime means extra time at work, more than the usual amount of time, more than 40 hours per week, for example.
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We can say, I earned extra money by working overtime on weekends.
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And the money that you make for working overtime is called overtime pay.
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And make sure you stress the first word.
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Don't say overtime.
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You say overtime.
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Overtime.
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I worked overtime.
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My boss asked me to work overtime.
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Does your boss ever ask you to work overtime?
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Okay, let's read the paragraph again.
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This time I will pause to to give you a chance to repeat so that you can practice your accent.
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Elijah Calderon, after a year-long training program at Los Angeles Trade Technical College,
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poised to earn about $105,000 annually as a power lineman.
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And we didn't say man, we didn't say power line man,
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we said lineman because we stressed the first word and we reduce the A of man.
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Let's say that again.
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Lineman.
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Once he becomes a journeyman in three to four years,
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he stands to make about $165,000.
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And potentially much more with overtime.
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Let's Let's look at the next paragraph.
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I will read it and then we will talk about the vocabulary.
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He had to let go of his high school dream of attending a four-year university because of family finances,
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but his chosen field in the community college system will propel
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him to the top 5% of wage earners among recent California college graduates,
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out earning many who attended the most prestigious universities in the state and the nation.
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Let's look at to let go of.
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He had to let go of his high school dream of attending a four-year university.
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To let go of is to stop holding on to something.
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You have to release it.
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You have to forget it.
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You have to let go of it.
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You can say, you need to forgive him.
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Let go of your anger.
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You need to let go of that.
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Or, it's important to let go of the past and move forward.
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Let's look at the verb to propel.
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The article says, his chosen field will propel him to the top 5% of wage earners among recent California college graduates.
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To propel is to push forward or to cause something to move in a particular direction.
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For example, you can say, the strong wind propelled the boat across the lake, or his ambition propelled him to success.
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Let's look at wage earners.
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The career that he chose propelled him to the top 5% of wage earners.
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A wage is the money that you make from work.
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So a wage earner is someone who earns money through employment.
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Someone who receives a regular salary or an hourly wage.
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As a wage earner, he relied on his job to support his family.
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Let's look at the verb to out-earn.
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The prefix out usually means something is larger than, more than.
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For example, you can say to outlive.
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To outlive someone means to live longer than someone else.
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Or to outsmart someone, to do something more intelligent than someone else.
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He really outsmarted me.
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I didn't realize that he was going to do that.
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He outsmarted me.
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Or you can say to outperform.
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When someone performs better than you, they outperformed you.
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Or to outnumber.
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For example, you can say this group outnumbers that group.
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That means there are more people in that group.
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They are outnumbered.
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So to To out-earn?
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To make more money than someone else.
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The article says out-earn many, but many is not followed by a noun.
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Many what?
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Many people, many students.
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Sometimes the noun is not necessary in this kind of construction.
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We understand that to out-earn many means many students.
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So, it's not necessary to always include that noun after the word many.
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For example, you can say, this restaurant is better than many.
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You don't have to say this restaurant is better than many other restaurants because it's understood.
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Let's read the paragraph again so that you can practice your accent.
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I will pause to give you a chance to repeat.
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He had to let go of his high school dream of attending a four-year university because of family finances.
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But his chosen field in the community college system will propel
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him to the top 5% of wage earners among recent California college graduates.
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And how did you pronounce that last word?
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Did you say graduate or did you say graduate?
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pronunciation is different depending on if it's a verb or if it's a noun.
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In this case it's a noun so we say graduate.
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We reduce the a graduate.
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But if it's a verb we say to graduate.
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Graduate.
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He graduated.
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The graduate graduated.
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So let's say that again.
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Recent California college graduates.
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out earning many, who attended the most prestigious universities in the state and the nation.
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And now it's time for a quick review quiz.
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Let's find out how many of these words you remember.
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Let's look at the first question.
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What's another word for producing a lot of of money.
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For example, you can say, you can make a lot of money in that profession.
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That profession is very what?
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It's an adjective.
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Lucrative.
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Did you get that one right?
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Let's go on to the next question.
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To make more money than someone else.
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For example, he makes more money than his friend.
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So he blank his friend.
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What's the verb?
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Out earns.
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To out earn.
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He out earns his friend.
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Let's look at the next question.
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A well-known and well-respected university is called what kind of university?
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For example, Harvard, Stanford, Yale.
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An elite university.
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Elite.
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Let's look at the next question.
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What do we call people who are the same age as us or the same level as us.
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For example, other students in your class, they are called your what?
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Peers.
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Your peers.
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She is one of my peers.
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We went to school together.
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She's one of my peers.
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Or we have the same job or a similar job.
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We are professional peers.
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Let's go on to the next question.
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Something lasting a a whole year.
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For example, the training program lasts a whole year.
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It's a blank program.
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Year long.
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Year long.
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It's a year long program.
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Make sure you stress the first word, year long.
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Let's look at the next question.
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If you're ready to do something, you're prepared to do it, you can also say you are blank to do it.
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Poised.
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To be poised to do something.
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Let's look at the next question.
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If we want to say, he needed to stop holding on to something.
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He needed to stop dreaming about something that he really wanted.
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He needed to do what?
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Let go of.
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He needed to let go of his dream.
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Let's go on to the next question.
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If something pushes you forward or causes you to move in a particular direction, it blanks you in that direction.
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What's the verb? To propel.
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It propels you.
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Okay, one more question.
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If you work extra hours, if you work more than 40 hours per week or more hours than you're supposed to work, you work what?
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Overtime.
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You work overtime.
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To keep learning advanced vocabulary, I suggest that you get my online course.
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400 advanced words you must know for fluent English.
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All of the words in that course actually come from the news.
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They come from various newspaper articles that I used in my classroom when I was teaching advanced communication skills.
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My students are mostly professionals.
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They're already quite fluent in English, but when it comes to really knowing how to communicate about a wide variety of subjects, they feel insecure about that.
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And this is the reason I created this course.
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You get a chance to practice using the words by making your own sentences,
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and there are many practice quizzes and lots of downloadable PDFs and seven hours of video lessons.
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Plus, you get a chance to practice your American accent.
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I talk a lot about pronunciation rules and linking rules and word stress and intonation and American vowel sounds and consonant sounds,
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so you also get a chance to practice your accent.
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Make sure you go to accurateenglish.com to get the course.
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Thanks for watching and keep practicing.
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Take your English to the final level of fluency with my online courses.
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American Accent course, the 400 Advanced Words You Must Know for Fluent English course,
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and the phrasal verbs for fluent English course.
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Go to AccurateEnglish.com.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau B2 is gebaseerd op de video “Advanced Vocabulary and Accent Practice for Fluency”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: earn, word, example, overtime, peers. Deze video bevat 251 zinnen en 2435 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 17:48. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 137 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. 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
De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| peer zelfstandig naamwoord | /pɪɹ/ | gelijke |
| lucrative bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈluː.kɹə.tɪv/ | lucratief, winstgevend |
| verb zelfstandig naamwoord | /vɝb/ | werkwoord |
| accent zelfstandig naamwoord | /ækˈsɛnt/ | accent, klemtoon |
| noun zelfstandig naamwoord | /naʊn/ | zelfstandig naamwoord, substantief |
| vocabulary zelfstandig naamwoord | /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/ | woordenschat, vocabulaire |
| annually bijwoord | /ˈæn.jʊə.li/ | jaarlijks |
| fluent bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈfluənt/ | vloeiend |
| paragraph zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈpæɹəɡɹæf/ | alinea, paragraaf |
| outnumber werkwoord | /aʊtˈnʌmbə(ɹ)/ | in de meerderheid zijn |
| outsmart werkwoord | /aʊtˈsmɑː(ɹ)t/ | slimmer zijn dan |
| quiz zelfstandig naamwoord | /kwɪz/ | kwis, quiz |
| prestigious bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /pɹɛˈstiːd͡ʒəs/ | prestigieus |
| distress zelfstandig naamwoord | /dɪˈstɹɛs/ | druk, stress |
| pause zelfstandig naamwoord | /pɔːz/ | pauze |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Betekenis |
|---|---|
| find out werkwoord | ontdekken, onderzoeken |
Zinnen om te herhalen
Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:
- For example, we can say, does a doctor out earn a lawyer?
- Let's look at the word year-long.
- Does your boss ever ask you to work overtime?
- Did you say graduate or did you say graduate?
- Did you get that one right?
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | is poised · be expected · is called |
| Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding | Students who graduate · someone who has · people who are |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 19 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals don't, you're, didn't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: intonation /ɪntəˈneɪʃən/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, profession /pɹəˈfɛʃ.ən/, specialize /ˈspɛʃəˌlaɪz/, qualification /ˌkwɑlɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, intonation /ɪntəˈneɪʃən/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, qualification /ˌkwɑlɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: lucrative /ˈluː.kɹə.tɪv/, poise /pɔɪz/, verb /vɝb/, quiz /kwɪz/, pause /pɔːz/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: accent /ækˈsɛnt/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, blank /ˈblæŋk/, annually /ˈæn.jʊə.li/, paragraph /ˈpæɹəɡɹæf/
- /w/ — met ronde lippen: quiz /kwɪz/, wisely /ˈwaɪzli/, qualification /ˌkwɑlɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
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 peer, lucrative, verb.
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.