Shadowing Practice: All 7 Dimensions Explained in Detail (From 0D to Infinity) - Learn English Speaking with Video
Les maken...
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Only one dimension has vanished from reality.
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Depth your body has become absolutely flat.
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You can't turn around and your blood has stopped flowing because your veins no longer have volume.
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But these are minor details compared to what awaits you in the fourth, fifth and seventh dimensions.
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Today we'll drag your body from the zeroth dimension to the seventh where the human brain simply shuts down.
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One important note before we go further: the higher we climb,
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the more we use dimensions as a metaphor to visualize levels of reality that we cannot see directly.
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But first, the basics.
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What exactly is a dimension?
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Forget about portals and magical realms.
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In the simplest sense, a dimension is an independent direction, or a degree of freedom, used to define an object's position.
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zero directions to move.
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If we forcefully squeeze a body into the zeroth dimension, no shape remains, only a coordinate,
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a mathematical point with no size.
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In such a world, there's no space to move, and the very idea of moving loses its meaning.
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Absolute claustrophobia.
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You seemingly exist, but to the rest of the universe, you simply don't exist.
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Let's take a step up to the first dimension.
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We are granted exactly one degree of freedom.
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You become an infinitely thin line.
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Now you have length, and you can only move forward or backward, and that's it.
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You can't turn around or bypass an obstacle.
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If someone else appears on this axis in front of you, you are simply stuck forever.
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The concepts of "up" or "sideways" simply don't exist here.
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You aren't just stuck on a line, you have become a creature for whom any obstacle is the end of the universe.
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We take this line and stretch it at a 90 degree angle.
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Welcome to the second dimension, the plane.
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You now have length and width.
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Your entire world looks like a drawing on a piece of paper.
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But the most interesting part here is how you perceive this world.
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In 1984, mathematician Edwin A.
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Abbott gave us a useful way to picture this.
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For simplicity's sake, remember this main rule: a creature usually perceives the world through projections
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and cross -sections one dimension lower than itself.
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If a 2D character on paper looks at a drawn circle, they won't see a circle.
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Imagine putting your right eye at the level of a table surface and looking at a coin lying flat from the side.
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You won't see a round shape, you will see merely a flat horizontal line.
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In a flat world, absolutely everything looks like line segments of varying lengths.
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indeed a circle and not a square.
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A flat creature would have to physically walk around its perimeter.
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Only then could it understand the object's true shape.
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If this 2D character draws a square house around itself, it will be absolutely safe from other flat beings.
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To them, it has disappeared behind a wall.
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But we, beings from a 3D world, look at this piece of paper from above.
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We see everything simultaneously: the walls of the flat house and the character inside it.
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We can simply lower a finger from our third dimension,
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neighbors, but it's an open box to a being from above.
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Keep this paradox in mind, we'll need it shortly.
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Let's pull this plane upward at a 90 degree angle.
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Enter our cozy three dimensional world.
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Physicist Paul Ehrenfest demonstrated that if there were more than three spatial dimensions,
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the familiar laws of gravity would change so drastically that stable planetary orbits and atoms would become impossible.
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depth appears, but due to that very rule of vision, we live in a total illusion.
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Strictly speaking, our eyes do not receive a ready made 3D picture.
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A flat 2D image falls onto the retina, and the brain reconstructs the sensation of depth using cues.
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The disparity between our eyes, perspective, and shadows.
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You see a closed safe, but you don't see what's inside.
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Look at your monitor.
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You can't see what's behind it until you walk around it.
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In a 3D world, we only see the outer shells of things.
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To see the inside, we must break the shape.
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And now, let's step into the fourth dimension.
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We add another coordinate, independent of the three spatial ones.
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We can't display it on a screen as a normal direction, but in physics, time often plays the role of this coordinate.
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In 1908, Herman Minkowski proposed viewing space and time as a single, unified structure.
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In 4D, time ceases to be an abstract flow.
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The easiest way to grasp this is through the timeline in video editing software.
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The viewer watches the video frame by frame, while the creator sees the whole strip of the video laid out on the screen at once.
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A 4D being looks at our three -dimensional universe exactly the same way we looked at that flat piece of paper.
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It sees everything all at once.
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4D being can interact with different segments of time, it doesn't need to break open the safe today.
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It simply reaches back to the moment yesterday when the door was open.
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To you trapped in the now, the object will simply vanish from the locked safe.
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So what happens to your body?
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You're no longer a human living life second by second.
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Since time is now a physical direction, your body is permanently stretched along it.
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Imagine a giant, continuous space -time worm, made up of millions of your copies.
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At one end of this structure is a baby being born.
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Further along, this long body rise through space, here it is walking to school, here it is sitting on a chair right now,
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and finally it ends as an old person taking their last breath.
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In 4D, there's no past or future.
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There is no movement.
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There's only this giant, frozen monolith of your life from beginning to end.
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To a four -dimensional being, your life is not a story, it is an object.
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But the 4D monolith is just one rigidly fixed line.
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Let's take a step into the fifth dimension, and here we transition from strict geometry into a convenient PopSci metaphor.
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What could the next direction be after time?
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Possibility.
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The axis of alternative outcomes.
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In quantum mechanics, this is Hugh Everett's many worlds interpretation.
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In 4D, you had only one destiny.
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But if we imagine every event and every choice as a crossroads, then in the fifth dimension,
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your temporal worm splits in two at the moment of every outcome. and again.
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Your body in 5D turns into a colossal, infinitely branching fractal.
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A massive tree, as it were.
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A perfect example of how this feels is the video game The Altars, where every new clone at the base is you, having taken an alternate branch.
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What were the massive narrative flowcharts in games like Detroit Become Human?
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Here, the branch where you become all, in the branch where you're watching this video right now, all exist simultaneously.
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For a five dimensional being, there's no concept of fate or inevitability.
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It sees this entire fractal of your lives as a single whole.
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You're no longer one person.
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You're an entire forest of all the people you could have become.
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Moreover, to it, these alternate realities are not separate worlds.
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They are simply different directions in space.
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of lives is constrained by the laws of our physics.
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So we collapse your entire giant tree of probabilities back into a single point and pull another perpendicular axis out of it.
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Welcome to the sixth dimension.
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In some versions of string theory, entire landscapes of possible universes emerge.
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For this video, we can picture it as the next level.
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No longer different destinies within the same physics, but entirely different physics altogether.
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Here lie universes with completely different fundamental constants.
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Worlds where gravity is a thousand times stronger, worlds where the speed of light is different,
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worlds where atoms fundamentally cannot bond together.
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And at this stage, the concept of anatomy simply loses its meaning.
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A body is only possible where the right laws exist, such as the right chemistry, stable bonds and enough time for processes to unfold.
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In the sixth dimension, Nothing is left of your body.
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You're no longer human.
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You're no longer a branching worm.
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You become pure information, an abstract mathematical structure that links the concept of your existence across all possible variants of physical laws.
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To reach the seventh dimension, we take this entire infinite network of 60 universes with different laws of physics,
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collapse it into a single point, And we stop.
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The seventh dimension in this scenario is no longer a specific physical axis, but a final metaphor.
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The space of all logically possible realities.
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Let me say that again.
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The space of all logical possible realities.
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In the seventh dimension, the very concept of existence, or an event, loses its meaning.
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Thank you simultaneously.
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All possible variants of universes, all conceivable and inconceivable laws of physics,
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all timelines from the beginning to the end of time.
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There is no action here.
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Action requires change, and change requires familiar time.
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But in 7D, nothing is created...
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How you doing?
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You know what?
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I'm in the middle of recording.
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Can I call you back in a few minutes?
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Okay, bye.
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But in 7D, nothing is created and nothing disappears because everything that could logically exist is already permanently locked into this structure.
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It's not a process.
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It's an absolute, infinite, frozen map of everything.
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It's not just a library of books.
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It is a library of all possible alphabets, all languages, all stories, and all laws by which those stories are created could be written.
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So why don't we go further?
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Because at this stage, human logic reaches its limit.
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The mathematics of string theory allow us to calculate the 8th, 10th and 11th dimensions, but there,
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these axes represent microscopic, curled up spaces.
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Describing them in macroscopic terms is physically impossible.
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Our brains evolved to hide from predators in a three dimensional world, not to comprehend absolute infinity.
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So, Let's come back.
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Exhale.
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And look around.
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The walls of your room are solid again.
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Your time moves only forward.
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And everything inside the closed safe or behind your back remains a mystery to you.
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Because you only see the flat 2D shell of things.
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We live in a very narrow, limited, but perfectly balanced geometric incubator.
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Enjoy this 3D illusion.
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is its end, subscribe to the channel.
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See you next time.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau B2 is gebaseerd op de video “All 7 Dimensions Explained in Detail”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: dimension, flat, simply, space, universe. Deze video bevat 159 zinnen en 1754 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 14:08. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 124 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. Slechts 78% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is pittig.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| dimension zelfstandig naamwoord | /daɪˈmɛn.ʃən/ | dimensie, afmeting |
| dimensional bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /daɪˈmɛn.ʃə.nəl/ | dimensionaal |
| axis zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈæksɪs/ | as |
| metaphor zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈmɛt.ə.fɚ/ | metafoor |
| worm zelfstandig naamwoord | /wɝm/ | worm, pier |
| coordinate werkwoord | /koʊˈɔɹ.dəˌneɪt/ | coördineren |
| simultaneously bijwoord | /ˌsaɪmlˈteɪnɪəsli/ | tegelijkertijd, tegelijk |
| monolith zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈmɑn.əˌlɪθ/ | monoliet |
| vanish werkwoord | /ˈvænɪʃ/ | verdwijnen |
| perceive werkwoord | /pɚˈsiv/ | waarnemen |
| obstacle zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɑbstəkəl/ | obstakel, belemmering |
| atom zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈætəm/ | atoom |
| spatial bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈspeɪ.ʃəl/ | ruimtelijk, ruim- |
| variant zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈvæɹi.ənt/ | variant |
| illusion zelfstandig naamwoord | /ɪˈl(j)uːʒ(ə)n/ | illusie |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Betekenis |
|---|---|
| turn around werkwoord | omdraaien |
| come back werkwoord | terugkomen |
| shut down werkwoord | afsluiten, uitzetten |
Zinnen om te herhalen
Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:
- Let's take a step up to the first dimension.
- You can't turn around or bypass an obstacle.
- Keep this paradox in mind, we'll need it shortly.
- You're no longer one person.
- Can I call you back in a few minutes?
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 | are granted · are simply stuck · aren't just stuck |
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | has vanished · has become · has stopped |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 21 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals you're, can't, don't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De “th”-klanken: monolith /ˈmɑn.əˌlɪθ/, zeroth /ˈzɪɹoʊθ/, mathematical /ˌmæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪ.kəl/, mathematician /ˌmæθ.(ə.)məˈtɪʃ.ən/, width /ˈwɪtθ/
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: dimension /daɪˈmɛn.ʃən/, dimensional /daɪˈmɛn.ʃə.nəl/, vanish /ˈvænɪʃ/, spatial /ˈspeɪ.ʃəl/, illusion /ɪˈl(j)uːʒ(ə)n/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: dimensional /daɪˈmɛn.ʃə.nəl/, coordinate /koʊˈɔɹ.dəˌneɪt/, simultaneously /ˌsaɪmlˈteɪnɪəsli/, infinitely /ˈɪnfɪnɪtli/, mathematical /ˌmæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪ.kəl/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: perceive /pɚˈsiv/, freeze /ˈfɹiːz/, unfold /ʌnˈfoʊld/, visualize /ˈvɪʒuəˌlaɪz/, sideways /ˈsaɪdweɪz/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: axis /ˈæksɪs/, fractal /ˈfɹæk.təl/, vanish /ˈvænɪʃ/, atom /ˈætəm/, variant /ˈvæɹi.ənt/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: grasp /ɡɹæsp/, altogether /ɔl.tuˈɡɛð.ɚ/
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 dimension, dimensional, axis.
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.