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Are you bilingual?

Trilingual?

You might have a better brain than me, and you might live longer.

Hola hombres, esta tres.

That doesn't work.

That's my name is the number three.

Thanks, mom and dad.

What was I in Spanish class?

Manuel, I think?

Hola, me amo Manuel.

I don't like that either.

I think I'm just going to stick to English for now.

Thanks for tuning in to DNews, everybody it looks like bilingualism isn't just useful when you're traveling,

or when you're trying to order food at your favorite restaurant,

or if you're trying to figure out what those girls on the train are talking about across from you, and if it's your shoes.

No, it also could help you live longer.

They know this because when they tested English -speaking seniors, the ones that were bilingual answered quicker.

Without getting too deep into the technical and medical details, bilingual brains are better at switching between major tasks,

like languages, and simultaneously filtering out superfluous information.

Obviously, this is really beneficial throughout people's lives, but if you enroll children in a bilingual school, it will not only help them learn to learn,

but keep their brain agile throughout their life.

It's not the only way.

You can also exercise, do stimulating tasks, or even do the crosswords.

And they've all been shown to keep your brain spry.

Although this is the most fun, unless you want to know what 77 down is vacation destination for sandwich lovers.

Ooh, Delhi!

Ha!

You know, India, Delhi.

Now that you're all jazzed to learn Cantonese or whatever, let's have science stomp on your bilingual dreams for a minute.

After about 12 months, you begin to filter out sounds that aren't found in your language,

which is why my German friend Nina can't really do the sound very well, and I can't do the, you know, the U with the dots.

I can't do that.

They're just not part of our learning.

That being said, it is of course possible to learn new languages, but it's better to be exposed early, like before you're four years old.

If living longer isn't a good enough reason for you to learn a new language, then perhaps this will help.

Look, we're about to get real deep.

Words are just an outward expression of emotions and thoughts.

They don't really mean anything on their own unless we assign them meaning.

Design student Pei Ying Lin created this infographic of untranslatable emotions.

My favorite shortcoming in the English language is that chasm that exists between liking someone and loving someone.

You might really like them or whatever, you might adore them, but that's a little trite.

The infographic shows that Italian and Korean have a word for love that's specifically for friends, family, inanimate objects, and pets.

We have to use the same word to express romantic love to our wife

or our husband as we would express to our mom or our dog or a really nice painting.

That is insane.

Here are some other words that we don't have that show up in other cultures.

I'll probably pronounce some of them really badly.

In Japan they have a really weird one, bakushan, which has to do with a beautiful girl but only when viewed from behind.

This one is really good.

It's Filipino and it has to do with seeing something cute and wanting to pinch or squeeze it.

And it's called giggle.

In Mexican Spanish they have a word for when you feel embarrassed for watching someone else's humiliation.

That's pena ajena.

You get the picture.

So there are a lot of words that English just doesn't have that express these emotions.

So not only can you learn another language, maybe you can just learn these and that'll help you live longer.

I mean, probably not a lot longer, like a few hours.

But hey, at least you can express yourself better.

Have you ever made up a word?

I'm sure you have.

I know I do it all the time.

Leave your made up word down in the comments

and give a definition so that we can all start using your fake words and maybe they'll become real words.

So thanks for watching and ti voglio bene,

which is the Italian word for I really care about you but I don't love you like a romantic partner.

So it would be nice if we had a word in between like and love.

Thanks for watching.

I'm Trace.

See you later.

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Deze spreekles is gebaseerd op de video “Bilingual Brains are Better”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: word, learn, language, bilingual, longer. Deze video bevat 69 zinnen en 756 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 3:59. De spreker praat snel, ongeveer 190 woorden per minuut, dus reken op verbonden en ingeslikte klanken. 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

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

Woord	Uitspraak	Betekenis
bilingual bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/baɪˈlɪŋ.ɡwəl/	tweetalig
emotion zelfstandig naamwoord	/ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/	emotie
filter zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈfɪltɚ/	filter
pet zelfstandig naamwoord	/pɛt/	huisdier, troeteldier
badly bijwoord	/ˈbæd.li/	slecht
insane bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/ɪnˈseɪn/	gestoord, waanzinnig
vacation zelfstandig naamwoord	/veɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/	vakantie
jazz zelfstandig naamwoord	/d͡ʒæz/	jazz
tune zelfstandig naamwoord	/tjuːn/	melodie
lover zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈlʌvɚ/	minnaar, minnares
destination zelfstandig naamwoord	/dɛstɪˈneɪʃən/	bestemming
shoe zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈʃu/	schoen
simultaneously bijwoord	/ˌsaɪmlˈteɪnɪəsli/	tegelijkertijd, tegelijk
beneficial bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/ˌbɛn.ɪˈfɪʃ.əl/	gunstig
embarrassed bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/ɪmˈbæɹ.əst/	in verlegenheid gebracht

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

Woord	Betekenis
figure out werkwoord	uitvogelen, er achter komen

Zinnen om te herhalen

Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:

That's my name is the number three.
I don't like that either.
They're just not part of our learning.
Look, we're about to get real deep.
Have you ever made up a word?

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 26 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals you're, don't, can't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

De klanken “sh” en “zh”: emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, vacation /veɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/, destination /dɛstɪˈneɪʃən/, shoe /ˈʃu/, beneficial /ˌbɛn.ɪˈfɪʃ.əl/
Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: destination /dɛstɪˈneɪʃən/, simultaneously /ˌsaɪmlˈteɪnɪəsli/, beneficial /ˌbɛn.ɪˈfɪʃ.əl/, humiliation /hjuːˌmɪliˈeɪʃən/, inanimate /ɪnˈænɪmət/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: jazz /d͡ʒæz/, sandwich /ˈsæn(d).wɪd͡ʒ/, expose /ɪkˈspoʊz/, squeeze /skwiːz/, outward /ˈaʊt.wɚd/
/æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: romantic /ɹoʊˈmæn(t)ɪk/, badly /ˈbæd.li/, jazz /d͡ʒæz/, sandwich /ˈsæn(d).wɪd͡ʒ/, embarrassed /ɪmˈbæɹ.əst/
/g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: bilingual /baɪˈlɪŋ.ɡwəl/, giggle /ˈɡɪɡl̩/, trilingual /tɹaɪ̯ˈlɪŋ.ɡwəl/

Zo oefen je met deze video

Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
Begin op 0,75× snelheid, spreek zin voor zin na en ga terug naar normale snelheid zodra het makkelijk gaat.
Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als bilingual, emotion, filter.

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.

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