Shadowing Practice: Changing for my family. - Learn English Speaking with Video

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There's a habit that I have been trying for long time. to change it.
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but I'm not success yet.
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That habit is I like to think that I'm Right.
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I know the best.
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I know better than other people.
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and I want auto people to do what I believe.
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I want people to do the way I Want it.
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This is the very big problem. when we married.
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We have to live together as a family.
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this habit is become a big problem.
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Among us, among the.. couple life.
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I try.
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to change myself a lot.
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I don't want to be a person who always tells people to do things all the time.
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but it's not very easy.
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it's not easy at all because it have been transferred for many generations.
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it from my grand -grandma, grandparents.
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until my parents and Me.
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And I don't want this habit to be transferred to my kids.
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my next generation.
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or people around me.
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I want everybody to be independent, to be themselves.
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Thank you.
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I don't want them to be like me.
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It's not.
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problem for many people, but for me I think it's a big problem.
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Thank you. Because I always Think.
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I'm Right.
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I know better.
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So when my wife do earthen house My wife, she is at an old building.
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Teacher.
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when she taught people how to do paint, clay paint to do something.
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I always told her that, "You cannot do that.
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You have to do this.
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You have to do this." This is the way I feel like it.
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I don't like myself. to be like that.
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I want her to be herself.
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but it's become habit.
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It just come out.
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It came out.
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I don't know myself sometimes.
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So I have to work very hard to remind myself that.
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I need to respect.
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my wife.
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Respect my kid.
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my son They have their own dream.
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They have their own way of thinking.
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They have their own experience.
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They have their own imagination.
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So they need to do what they believe, what they want to do. But...
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My problem is I want them to do what I believe.
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I want them to do my dream.
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to follow my imagination.
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This is not normal.
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this will cause a lot of problems.
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because people around me will not grow.
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They cannot develop themselves.
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Because whenever they do what I want them to do, they cannot do the best.
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they cannot develop themselves much.
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But whenever they do what they believe in, What day? dream about it.
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what they want to try.
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they will develop themselves a lot.
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That's the way people can grow.
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So I want people to grow.
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Thank you. But...
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I know that I cannot do it many times, many things.
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But I want other people to do it.
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That's not fair.
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For example, like when I watched soccer or what football or what another sport.
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I always yell at the player Go left, go left, go right, go faster, kick harder.
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I always yell.
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But, I cannot do like them.
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they have their own ability, they know that they're the limitation of their ability.
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They know what to do.
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But I cannot do it but i want them to do the way i want them if i go to the field.
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I cannot run fast like them.
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I cannot kick the football like them.
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I cannot do that.
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But I always think they have to do like this.
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That's why I have to yell very loud around the on the stadium.
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So this habit is is one thing I think is cause problem.
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cause problem for people around me especially my son, my wife.
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people around me that's mean I did not respect their thinking.
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I do not respect their imagination.
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So when I try to Push my dream or my imagination to their life.
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Thank you.
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they will be unhappy.
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They feel unhappy.
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because it's not the way they want it.
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So that's the cause of conflict, that's the cause of suffering. in the family.
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I don't want to be like that. So, I'm trying.
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to remind myself that "I will not do that." But many times it just came up.
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I did it by Thank you.
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No consciousness with no consciousness.
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because it's in my life for so long but i cannot stop doing it i cannot stop
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train myself to not do it.
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Because I don't want it to be transferred to the next generation.
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So, The habit is one thing It's very hard.
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to chain especially habit that I grew up with.
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is in my blood.
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But I believe that I will do it one day.
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That's why I keep Keep training, keep doing myself, keep respect.
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utter people's thinking, utter people's idea.
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Because I want to see people around me grow the way they want to grow.
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I don't want them to be like me.
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Because I'm not the best person.
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This is the way I can be.
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I think they can do better than me.
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That's why I don't want them to think like me.
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I don't want them to do like me.
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because I believe that they can do better than me.
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So if they think like me, that do like me.
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there will be similar to me.
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That's mean.
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they cannot develop their life to be better than me. So, Thank you.
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It's hard.
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to change the habit.
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especially when You grew up in Asian Culture.
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that we believe that Man is the leader of the family.
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We were taught like that for many generations.
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But now, We cannot think like that anymore.
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Everybody in the family is equal We need to respect each other, even My son, my kid,
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he's young, but I need to respect him.
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So this is a big chain, this is a big revolution. in My.
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hate in my thinking.
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to change the culture in my life.
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to do something different.
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Because the way I grew up with.
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It's not work anymore.
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in the world.
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in the new era.
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because the world has changed so much.
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Thank you there need to be different.
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They need to be themselves, they need to be independent.
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That's the way to survive.
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So, It's not the same thing anymore.
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nothing the same anymore.
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That's why I feel like I need to change myself.
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I don't want...
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to be an old man that nobody want to come nearby me.
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because if it come nearby me, level be tall to do that, to do this, to not do that, not do this all the time for me.
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So, Nobody wants to be close to me, and it's not very fun.
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I think it will be more fun if everybody around me can be themselves.
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They can feel relaxed, they can feel free, they can feel independent, they can do whatever.
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They want to.
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that will be very nice atmosphere.
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when people are happy and be around each other.
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When people become independent and be around each other, I think this is a kind of life that I am expecting.
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now.

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Deze spreekles op niveau B1 is gebaseerd op de video “Changing for my family”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: cannot, habit, respect, themselves, grow. Deze video bevat 149 zinnen en 1191 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 10:29. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 114 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. 89% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is goed te volgen.

Belangrijke woorden in deze video

De 12 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:

WoordUitspraakBetekenis
habit zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈhæb.ɪt/gewoonte
imagination zelfstandig naamwoord/ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/verbeelding, fantasie
yell werkwoord/jɛl/schreeuwen
utter werkwoord/ˈʌtəɹ/produceren, uitbrengen
consciousness zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈkɑnʃəsnəs/bewustzijn
earthen bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ˈɝθən/aarden
grandparent zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈɡɹæn(d)pɛəɹənt/grootouder
limitation zelfstandig naamwoord/lɪmɪˈteɪʃən/begrenzing, beperking
automobile zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈɔː.tə.məˌbil/automobiel, auto
grandma zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈɡɹænmɑː/oma
relax werkwoord/ɹɪˈlæks/losmaken
clay zelfstandig naamwoord/kleɪ/klei

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

WoordUitspraakBetekenis
come out werkwoord/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/uitkomen

Zinnen om te herhalen

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

  • I don't want them to be like me.
  • I don't know myself sometimes.
  • I don't want to be like that.
  • Because I'm not the best person.
  • I don't want them to do like me.

Grammatica in deze video

De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:

StructuurIn de video
Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doethave been transferred · be transferred · were taught
Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telthave been transferred · has changed
Vergrotende trap -er than / more … than — twee dingen vergelijkenbetter than
Overtreffende trap the -est / the most … — het hoogste of laagste van een groepthe best

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 17 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals don't, I'm, they're. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

  • De klanken “sh” en “zh”: imagination /ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/, consciousness /ˈkɑnʃəsnəs/, limitation /lɪmɪˈteɪʃən/
  • Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: imagination /ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/, limitation /lɪmɪˈteɪʃən/, automobile /ˈɔː.tə.məˌbil/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

  • /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: habit /ˈhæb.ɪt/, imagination /ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/, unhappy /ʌnˈhæpi/, grandparent /ˈɡɹæn(d)pɛəɹənt/, grandma /ˈɡɹænmɑː/
  • /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: grandparent /ˈɡɹæn(d)pɛəɹənt/, grandma /ˈɡɹænmɑː/

Zo oefen je met deze video

  1. Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
  2. Spreek zin voor zin na op normale snelheid en herhaal elke zin tot je ritme gelijk is aan dat van de spreker.
  3. Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als habit, imagination, yell.

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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