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there is one quality that separates the people who actually get fluent from the ones who stay stuck
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it's consistency today we're going to practice
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that idea in english through shadowing real b2 language real rhythm real pronunciation follow my voice repeat out loud
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and don't stop before we start
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if you want daily structured practice at b2 level check out the b2 edge app link in the description.
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So, here is how today's shadowing session works.
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First, I will read the full paragraph at natural speed.
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At this point, just listen, don't repeat anything, just get a feel for the meaning, the rhythm, the way it sounds.
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Then, we're gonna go sentence by sentence and you will shadow me, repeat everything out loud, as close to my voice as possible.
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And finally, I'll read the whole thing one last time, and then it's your turn.
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You read it through completely on your own.
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Three steps.
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Ready?
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Let's go.
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Consistency is arguably the most underrated quality in personal development.
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We live in an increasingly distracted world where the temptation to abandon long -term goals for short -term satisfaction is undeniable.
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The uncomfortable truth is that most people overestimate what they can achieve in a week
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and remarkably underestimate what they can accomplish in a year of uninterrupted, disciplined effort.
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Transformation doesn't happen suddenly.
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It unfolds progressively, almost imperceptibly, through countless unremarkable days where you show up,
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recommit, and refuse to quit.
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The truly successful aren't necessarily the most gifted or the most knowledgeable.
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They're the ones who have learned to strengthen their resolve when motivation disappears, to reframe setbacks as redirection,
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and to find meaningfulness in the process itself, not just the outcome.
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Consistency doesn't glamorize the journey.
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It quietly empowers it.
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All right, that was the paragraph.
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You listen to it, right? you got a feel for it.
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Now, let's actually do the shadowing session.
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So, I'm going to break it down sentence by sentence.
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I'm going to read one sentence, you listen to it, process it, and then repeat right after.
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And then, next sentence, and on and on like that.
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Ready?
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Here we go.
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Consistency is arguably the most underrated quality in personal development.
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We live in an increasingly distracted world where the temptation to abandon long -term goals for short -term satisfaction is undeniable.
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The uncomfortable truth is that most people overestimate what they can achieve in a week
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and remarkably underestimate what they can accomplish in a year of uninterrupted disciplined effort.
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Transformation doesn't happen suddenly.
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It unfolds progressively, almost imperceptibly, through countless unremarkable days where you show up,
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recommit, and refuse to quit.
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The truly successful aren't necessarily the most gifted or the most knowledgeable.
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They are the ones who have learned to strengthen their resolve when motivation disappears, to reframe setbacks as redirection,
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and to find meaningfulness in the process itself, self, not just the outcome.
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consistency doesn't glamorize the journey it quietly empowers it
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good very nice now let's do it one more run
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but now in video i want you to actually look at
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my face look at my mouth my tongue how you know
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my muscles of articulation move in order to pronounce especially some words here, all right?
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So, let's just be a little bit more laser -focused with that practice.
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So, listen again.
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Consistency is arguably the most underrated quality in personal development.
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All right?
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So, this word is interesting.
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Repeat after me.
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Arguably.
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Arguably.
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If it's too difficult, try to break it down into two sounds argue -a -blee.
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As a matter of fact, three sounds, right?
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Argue -a -blee.
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Argue -a -blee.
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And then you start bringing it closer together.
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Arguably.
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Arguably.
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Arguably.
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All right?
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This word is also nice.
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Underrated.
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Repeat.
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Underrated.
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Underrated.
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So come on.
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Consistency is arguably the most underrated quality in personal development.
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Okay, let's continue.
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The next sentence.
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We live in an increasingly distracted world where the temptation to abandon long -term goals for short -term satisfaction is undeniable.
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Okay, a couple of words here.
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Repeat after me.
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Come on.
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Increasingly.
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Increasingly.
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By the way, this letter S is pronounced as an S sound.
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Increasing.
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Increasingly.
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Okay?
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This is an adverb.
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So, the S has an S sound.
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Increasingly distracted world.
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I know the word world can be tricky for some learners, right?
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Just, again, try to break down the word, yeah?
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The first part, think about W -O -R.
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That's wor, wor, wor, okay?
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And then you're going to raise your tongue for the O, which is the L.
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So, O, O.
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You see that?
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So it's were, oh, were, oh, and then the D,
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D, so world, world, all right?
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Don't worry if you need more practice with this one, but, you know, be patient with yourself.
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It's fine.
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Let me see if there's another nice word here.
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The word abandon is a nice advanced word, abandon.
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Come on, abandon.
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Abandon.
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Abandon. And then, undeniable.
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Undeniable.
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Very nice.
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Now, let's continue.
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Next sentence.
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The uncomfortable truth is that most people overestimate what they can achieve in a week
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and remarkably underestimate what they can accomplish in a year of uninterrupted, disciplined effort.
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okay first of all we have here the uncomfortable truth the
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word truth here has a voiceless th sound it sounds like a th right
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so truth truth the uncomfortable truth by the way i'm saying the uncomfortable,
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the uncomfortable, because uncomfortable starts with a vowel sound, right?
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So, the article the is pronounced the.
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Remember that little rule, okay?
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If after the, the word has a consonant sound, you're going to pronounce the, like the book, the boy, you know?
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But if it has a vowel sound like uncomfortable, then it turns to the,
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the uncomfortable, the elephant, the elevator.
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Okay.
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So the uncomfortable truth.
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All right.
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And remarkably is a great word as well.
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It's also an adverb.
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So remarkably, come on, remarkably, remarkably. and uninterrupted.
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uninterrupted, disciplined, disciplined.
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Very well, let's move on.
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Transformation doesn't happen suddenly.
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It unfolds progressively, almost imperceptibly, through countless unremarkable days where you show up,
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recommit, and refuse to quit.
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Very well.
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If that was too quick for you, just pause the video.
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Go back to that section.
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Pause the video if you need more time.
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Repeat out loud, read it out loud, and then you play it back, right?
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No worries.
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But let me just point out here some nice words.
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Again, we have a couple of adverbs.
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Progressively.
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Progressively.
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Repeat that.
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Progressively and imperceptibly.
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Imperceptibly.
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Very well.
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I really like the word countless.
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countless is like numerous.
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It's so many that you can't even count.
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So, countless unremarkable days.
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All right?
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Come on.
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Unremarkable.
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Unremarkable.
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And then show up, recommit, refuse to quit.
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All right?
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Let's move on.
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The truly successful aren't necessarily the most gifted or the most knowledgeable.
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This chunk is nice to pronounce, yeah?
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The truly successful aren't necessarily.
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You see, are not is being abbreviated here to aren't.
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I barely pronounced the T actually.
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I don't say aren't.
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So I just joined the N for aren't with the N for necessarily.
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So it sounds like aren't necessarily.
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Aren't necessarily.
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Aren't necessarily.
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So the truly successful aren't necessarily the most gifted or the most knowledgeable.
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I love this word knowledgeable.
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I have the root knowledge, which is a noun, and then by adding the suffix able at the end,
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now that word has become an adjective.
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Knowledgeable.
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If you call a person knowledgeable, you mean that person has a lot of knowledge about a specific topic, the most knowledgeable.
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All right?
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Moving on.
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They're the ones who have learned to strengthen their resolve when motivation disappears, to reframe setbacks as redirection,
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and to find meaningfulness in the process itself, not just the outcome.
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cool i hope that you pause the video
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because you know um i think you're gonna need more time for this one
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so make sure you pause and uh go back listen repeat
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but this word is awesome strengthen strengthen if you happen to watch the lesson from last week,
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that was actually a deep dive lesson, one hour plus lesson that I did on word formation.
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And then in that lesson, we learned the word strengthen, which is the verb for the adjective strong.
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All right.
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So to strengthen something means to make something stronger.
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All right?
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So, learn to strengthen their resolve.
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Your resolve is your will, you know, your determination.
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All right?
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The pronunciation of the verb.
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Come on.
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Strengthen.
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Strengthen.
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You see?
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Again, voiceless TH. So, strengthen.
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Strengthen.
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Strengthen.
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Strengthen their resolve when motivation disappears.
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The letter S here for disappears also has an S sound.
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We don't pronounce it like a Z sound, like disappears.
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No, it's disappears.
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All right.
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Think about it this way.
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The verb, the root verb or word is appear.
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The prefix is dis.
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The way I pronounce the prefix alone It's this with an S sound.
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So, I keep the S sound when I put it together with the root word. So, disappears.
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Disappears.
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All right?
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Setbacks.
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Awesome word.
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Setbacks.
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You know, a setback is when something doesn't happen according to what you planned.
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You know, you are making progress.
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You are making progress.
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You're doing well but then a setback happens.
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You have a setback.
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Something happens that delays that progress or stalls that progress for a little while.
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This is a setback.
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All right?
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Then meaningfulness.
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It's a great word.
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Meaningful is an adjective.
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Something is meaningful.
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The meaningfulness or find meaningfulness, that's the noun.
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Simply by adding the suffix -ness to the adjective meaningful Now I have the noun meaningfulness.
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So, find meaningfulness in the process itself, not just the outcome.
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Let's move on.
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Consistency doesn't glamorize the journey.
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It quietly empowers it.
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A couple of nice words here.
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Glamorize.
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Glamorize the verb for glamour, right?
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So, glamour is the noun.
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Glamorize is the action, the verb.
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To glamorize something is to make something more glamorous, okay?
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And the word here is journey.
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Pay close attention to the pronunciation of this word.
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It's not jo, like journey.
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Journey?
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No. Juh, juh, journey, journey.
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Just like the band, the awesome American band, journey, you know?
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So, juh, juh, journey.
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Consistency doesn't glamorize the journey.
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It quietly empowers it.
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All right?
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Very nice.
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Now, I will read one last time the whole paragraph at full speed.
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Listen carefully.
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Don't repeat after me for now, okay? then after I'm finished, it's going to be your turn.
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All right?
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So here we go.
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Consistency is arguably the most underrated quality in personal development.
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We live in an increasingly distracted world where the temptation to abandon long -term goals for short -term satisfaction is undeniable.
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The uncomfortable truth is that most people overestimate what they can achieve in a week
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and remarkably underestimate what they can accomplish in a year of uninterrupted, disciplined effort.
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Transformation doesn't happen suddenly.
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It unfolds progressively, almost imperceptibly, through countless unremarkable days where you show up,
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recommit, and refuse to quit.
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The truly successful aren't necessarily the most gifted or the most knowledgeable.
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They are the ones who have learned to strengthen the resolve when motivation disappears, to reframe setbacks as redirection,
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and to find meaningfulness in the process itself, not just the outcome.
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Consistency doesn't glamorize the journey.
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It quietly empowers it.
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all right now it's our turn i'm going to show you
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the paragraph on screen again pause the video read it through all the way through completely
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and then come back when you're done
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Thank you.
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Very well, look, before I let you go, did you notice how many affixes were hiding in that paragraph?
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That was on purpose, you know, I have here my notes in front of me, take a look at some of these words.
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Underrated.
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undeniable, uninterrupted.
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You see, all these words are built with the prefix un.
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What about reframe?
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Recommit, redirection.
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All of these are using re, the prefix re.
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Reframe, recommit, redirection.
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What about the li suffix for adverbs?
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Progressively, imperceptibly, remarkably.
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All these are adverbs built with the suffix li.
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What about transformation, satisfaction?
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You see, I'm using the suffix ation.
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Transformation.
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Transformation.
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Satisfaction.
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And these are nouns, by the way.
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What about strengthen?
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Strengthen is a great word.
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I'm using the suffix and and i'm turning the word strength which is a noun into a verb to strengthen
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something all right so this paragraph
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that we worked with today it wasn't just a shadowing exercise
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as you can see it was word formation in action by the way
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if you want daily structured practice at b2 level built around
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lessons exactly like this one the b2 edge app is your next step It's powered by AI, structured for B2 learners.
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And of course, if you want to go deeper on this topic of word formation, you know, how prefixes and suffixes work, how to use them correctly,
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I really recommend you watch the full 90 -minute deep dive lesson on word formation that I published last week.
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I'm going to leave the link to that lesson in the description, also here on the screen.
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All right.
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So thank you so much for hanging out with me today.
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I hope you enjoyed this shadowing practice.
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I'm Thiago and check out this deep dive lesson next to learn more.
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I'll see you in the next video.
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Deze spreekles op niveau B2 is gebaseerd op de video “B2 Shadowing English Speaking Practice”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: word, strengthen, sound, uncomfortable, journey. Deze video bevat 305 zinnen en 2336 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 22:45. De spreker praat langzaam, ongeveer 103 woorden per minuut, zodat je tijd hebt om elke klank na te doen. Slechts 76% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| strengthen werkwoord | /ˈstɹɛŋ(k)θən/ | versterken |
| uncomfortable bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/ | ongemakkelijk |
| setback zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈsɛtbæk/ | tegenslag |
| arguably bijwoord | /ˈɑɹɡjuəbli/ | onderbouwbaar, verdedigbaar |
| disappear werkwoord | /dɪsəˈpɪɹ/ | verdwijnen, verzwinden |
| knowledgeable bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈnɑ.lɪ.d͡ʒə.bəl/ | geïnformeerd |
| underrated bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ʌn.dɚˈɹeɪ.təd/ | ondergewaardeerd |
| remarkably bijwoord | /ɹɪˈmɑɹkəbli/ | opmerkelijk |
| abandon werkwoord | /əˈbæn.dən/ | opgeven, prijsgeven |
| pronounce werkwoord | /pɹəˈnaʊns/ | uitspreken, verklaren |
| imperceptibly bijwoord | onmerkbaar, ongemerkt | |
| suffix zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈsʌfɪks/ | achtervoegsel, aanhangsel |
| undeniable bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˌʌn.dɪˈnaɪ.(j)ə.bəɫ/ | onweerlegbaar |
| uninterrupted bijvoeglijk naamwoord | onafgebroken, ononderbroken | |
| verb zelfstandig naamwoord | /vɝb/ | werkwoord |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Betekenis |
|---|---|
| show up werkwoord | tentoonstellen |
| check out werkwoord | onderzoeken |
| break down werkwoord | stukgaan, kapot gaan |
| come back werkwoord | terugkomen |
| go back werkwoord | teruggaan |
| point out werkwoord | aanwijzen, aanduiden |
Zinnen om te herhalen
Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:
- Let me see if there's another nice word here.
- Very well, let's move on.
- It's so many that you can't even count.
- You're doing well but then a setback happens.
- Don't repeat after me for now, okay?
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding | people who actually · ones who have · knowledge, which is |
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | is pronounced · being abbreviated · are built |
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | have learned · has become |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 56 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals aren't, I'm, doesn't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De “th”-klanken: strengthen /ˈstɹɛŋ(k)θən/, rhythm /ˈɹɪð.əm/
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: redirection /ɹiːdəˈɹɛkʃən/, satisfaction /sætɪsˈfækʃən/, temptation /ˌtɛmpˈteɪʃən/, accomplish /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: uncomfortable /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/, consistency /kənˈsɪs.tən.si/, knowledgeable /ˈnɑ.lɪ.d͡ʒə.bəl/, underrated /ʌn.dɚˈɹeɪ.təd/, remarkably /ɹɪˈmɑɹkəbli/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: underrated /ʌn.dɚˈɹeɪ.təd/, verb /vɝb/, resolve /ɹɪˈzɑlv/, pause /pɔːz/, adjective /ˈæd͡ʒ.ɪk.tɪv/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: setback /ˈsɛtbæk/, abandon /əˈbæn.dən/, paragraph /ˈpæɹəɡɹæf/, satisfaction /sætɪsˈfækʃən/, distract /dɪˈstɹækt/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: arguably /ˈɑɹɡjuəbli/, progressively /pɹəˈɡɹɛsɪvli/, paragraph /ˈpæɹəɡɹæf/, glamour /ˈɡlæmɚ/, glamorous /ˈɡlæ.mə.ɹəs/
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 strengthen, uncomfortable, setback.
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.