Shadowing Practice: Can a Hamster Survive in the Wild? - Learn English Speaking with Video

This is my pet hamster, Karen, who is about to enter the wild.

The only catch? She's lived her entire life in a pet store, so I'll be putting her survival skills to the test.

Will she be able to live a normal life?

Well, she turned out to be anything but normal by the end of this video.

I promise you will never see hamsters the same way again.

Starting with Karen. Come on, we have to get her.

So I bought everything the pet store recommended, and apparently this is the ideal hamster setup.

All I have to do now is add in the bedding, food, water, and tiny purple house.

But I have much bigger plans in mind. Now.

Karen here is a Russian hamster.

I've never been to Russia before, but I don't think it looks like this.

At all. Come here, little one.

Ouch. I definitely cannot show that on YouTube.

Tube, so I thought it would be best to give her some alone time.

She spent the entire night trying to escape.

Now she's chewing on the bars.

A terrible sign of stress.

I was told this is the ideal hamster setup.

Not anymore. I got a brand new tank, replaced her bedding with real soil, replaced her plastic house with a real log, and replaced her fake plant with some real ones. Since Karen is completely untamed, I thought the perfect home would be her natural habitat.

But as much as I want to, I can't just drop her in here.

She's been raised her whole life in a pet store, on artificial food, in an artificial home.

Will she know how to dig?

How to forage, how to hunt?

I don't know, but we're about to find out.

Well, to ease her into this new home, I built a four part obstacle course to test her survival skills. And her first obstacle will test her ability to dig.

If she can tunnel from the top tube down to the bottom, then I'm confident she can burrow like her ancestors.

Now, her next challenge will test her ability to forge.

She's eating processed food all her life, so I want to know if she can find and crack open seeds. And if she can do this, then I hope she can pass the next challenge.

Her only task is to press a button to turn on a light.

The catch is the button is buried under a pile of dirt.

Will she be able to find it?

Well, I hope so, because her final challenge is the most controversial so far.

It will test her ability to hunt.

So if she can find and kill a cockroach, then I'm confident she can not only survive but thrive in her new home.

Now we just have to let her in.

And as she enters the first challenge, she takes in all the new smells.

Her instincts tell her to dig.

This is crazy because she's only ever dug in paper before.

I can't imagine what she'll create in her new home.

Oh, there she goes. She's nearly there.

But digging is a messy job, so she takes regular breaks to clean herself.

Every last piece of dirt must be removed.

All clean and ready to go.

Come on. Maybe two inches away.

I may have underestimated her.

And she's already off to the next challenge.

The maze. She can clearly smell something, but is not sure if it is food. But after taking a closer look, she takes the whole thing with her.

Well, she's not eating them like I hoped.

Instead, she picks apart the seeds and stuffs them in her cheek for later.

Oh, now she's going back for more.

And apparently she's not full.

Into the sunflower bin she goes.

Her mouth is like a mini vacuum.

And in under a minute all the seeds were gone.

Now she left. Made her way all the way back to the beginning.

Where she went underground.

Her storage chamber. Where she turns her cheeks inside out to empty her mouth.

That pink skin is her cheek pouch that is full of seeds.

This is rarely ever seen.

Good news. We'll never have to see that again.

Now time to head back where she will face the next obstacle.

This one is a little more complicated.

She jumps onto the top.

And remember, there is a hidden red button that she must find.

The button smells like her favorite food.

But can she dig it up?

Oh, she smells it. Come on.

So close. There it is.

Just press it. Not hard enough.

Just a little more. Bingo!

And now, on to the final obstacle.

The most controversial of them all.

She must learn to hunt.

One cockroach and one hamster.

But who would make the first move?

She begins to close in until they stand face to face.

What the. And she went straight for the head. Imagine what she's going to do in her new home.

Well, now, with a full stomach, she begins to make her way there.

Her life is about to change forever.

And as she makes her way through, she pauses.

She's never seen a plant before.

These are her first steps into a very unfamiliar world.

She now has the chance to make it her own.

But then, as fast as she entered, she left and ran all the way back through the maze. Through the tube, through the dirt, back to the beginning, just to run on her wheel.

Will she prefer an artificial life or a real one?

I'll give her seven days.

Seven days to decide. But over the first two she did nothing but pace around her cage.

So I placed in lichen, pine cones and leaves to further resemble her natural habitat. But it wouldn't be the wild without worms.

Oh, she can smell them.

They have to make their way underground before she gets here.

They race for safety and she races for a meal.

But she might be too late.

Or maybe not, because she can dig faster than the worm.

And then uses her teeth to do the rest.

I get the feeling that hamsters should not be a household pet.

While she's already here, I sprinkle in some seeds and from there I left her for three whole days.

And when I returned, she was not in the cage.

In the maze or the ecosystem?

Or so I thought. She built a sanctuary underground.

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Was she finally at home?

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Well, every night she would leave her burrow because she was on a mission.

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She would run from the ecosystem all the way back to her cage to run on her wheel.

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While I believe so much we're told about hamsters is wrong.

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There is one thing we got right.

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Check out this video for more and I'll see you in the next one.

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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les

Deze video bevat 105 zinnen en 1165 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 9:30. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 123 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. 84% 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
seed zelfstandig naamwoord	/siːd/	zaad
obstacle zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈɑbstəkəl/	obstakel, belemmering
tube zelfstandig naamwoord	/tuːb/	tube
underground bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/ˌʌn.dəɹˈɡɹaʊnd/	ondergronds
artificial bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/ˌɑː.tɪˈfɪʃ.əl/	artificieel, kunstmatig
dirt zelfstandig naamwoord	/dɝt/	aarde
cage zelfstandig naamwoord	/keɪd͡ʒ/	kooi, kouw
cheek zelfstandig naamwoord	/t͡ʃiːk/	wang, koon
maze zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈmeɪz/	doolhof, labyrint
ideal bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/aɪˈdi(ə)l/	ideaal, optimaal
skill zelfstandig naamwoord	/skɪl/	bekwaamheid, vaardigheid
survival zelfstandig naamwoord	/sɚˈvaɪ.vəl/	overleven, overleving
controversial bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/ˌkɑn.tɹəˈvɝ.ʃəl/	omstreden
ecosystem zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈikoʊˌsɪstəm/	ecosysteem
worm zelfstandig naamwoord	/wɝm/	worm, pier

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

Woord	Betekenis
check out werkwoord	onderzoeken
find out werkwoord	ontdekken, onderzoeken

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 15 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'll, can't, don't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

De klanken “sh” en “zh”: artificial /ˌɑː.tɪˈfɪʃ.əl/, controversial /ˌkɑn.tɹəˈvɝ.ʃəl/
Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: artificial /ˌɑː.tɪˈfɪʃ.əl/, controversial /ˌkɑn.tɹəˈvɝ.ʃəl/, ecosystem /ˈikoʊˌsɪstəm/, complicated /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/, sanctuary /ˈsæŋkt͡ʃuˌɛɹi/

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 seed, obstacle, tube.

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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