Shadowing Practice: Daniel Day Lewis on Acting - Learn English Speaking with Video
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The interesting thing about the script, I think, it seemed to me anyway, that it wasn't a predominant feature, his disability.
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I was just struck by,
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more than anything else, by his anger at the way in which he was perceived and misunderstood sometimes,
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and his desire that the record should be set straight.
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And I felt he was a pioneer, in a way.
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He was actually charting territory, which had never been charted before,
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and I think my heroes have always been people that have actually ventured into that kind of territory,
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and he never let up.
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He continued to confront people, confronted his own fears, which takes huge courage, and he confronted other people's fears head on.
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Is it more important that the role be interesting or the character be interesting?
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I tend really to only work on things that I'm I have a kind of compulsion to do
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but they are so varied yeah roles that we've seen you in
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so far it certainly that they're certainly the things that most interest me tend to be
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um at some distance from my own life and they tend to be at some
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distance from the characters that have interested me before as well
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You were going to be a cabinet maker at one stage, yes.
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It's really just a coincidence that I'm not, I think, because during the year after I left school,
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I was really more active in my pursuit of that.
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I mean, I tried to find apprenticeships, and I was very fussy.
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I was always very fussy about who I wanted to work with, and there was one designer craftsman in the country who I thought was extraordinary
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and I just waited and he didn't have room in his workshops
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and and he couldn't take on any more apprentices
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and then in the end I just thought I'll try for one theatre school
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and see what happens and that it had been a passion for years
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but I'd rather in my last years at school I began to think
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that the theatre profession was rather kind of suspect
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and perhaps it is yeah and and so on and
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so it was cabinet making
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and by sheer coincidence the two possibilities happened at exactly the same time
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and i just decided to to go to theater school do
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you ever run up a little coffee table now no i
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haven't laid my hands on on wood since since i stopped
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and i i don't know why just because i i love doing it
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so much i couldn't think of doing it as a hobby i suppose at the age of 12
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when I kind of made up my mind I wasn't aware of the the less attractive side of the profession
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and certainly by the time it came for me to choose
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a direction to go in after I left school I began to be aware of it
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and although I never doubted that I would enjoy the work I did have grave doubts about whether or not I'd
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be able to live up to the way of life
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it was something I had to try and although I have had periods of unemployment which weren't pleasant
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it's always been worth it.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles is gebaseerd op de video “Daniel Day Lewis on Acting”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: tend, interesting, certainly. Deze video bevat 41 zinnen en 545 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 3:24. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 160 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. Slechts 81% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is pittig.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
15 woorden uit de video die het leren waard zijn, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| confront werkwoord | /kənˈfɹʌnt/ | confronteren |
| profession zelfstandig naamwoord | /pɹəˈfɛʃ.ən/ | professie |
| coincidence zelfstandig naamwoord | /kəʊˈɪnsɪdəns/ | toeval |
| passion zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈpæʃən/ | passie, hartstocht |
| anger zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈæŋɡə/ | boosheid, woede |
| designer zelfstandig naamwoord | /dɪˈzaɪnɚ/ | ontwerper, designer |
| extraordinary bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ɪksˈtɹɔːrdɪn(ə)ɹi/ | buitengewoon |
| script zelfstandig naamwoord | /skɹɪpt/ | geschrift |
| theater zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈθi(ə)tɚ/ | theater |
| courage zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈkʌ.ɹɪd͡ʒ/ | moed, dapperheid |
| grave zelfstandig naamwoord | /ɡɹeɪv/ | graf |
| venture werkwoord | /ˈvɛn.t͡ʃɚ/ | avonturieren |
| vary werkwoord | /ˈvɛəɹi/ | variëren |
| maker zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈmeɪk.ɚ/ | maker |
| pleasant bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈplɛz.ənt/ | aangenaam, behaaglijk |
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | have always been · we've seen · have interested |
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | was just struck · was perceived · should be set |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 15 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals couldn't, I'd, I'm. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: profession /pɹəˈfɛʃ.ən/, passion /ˈpæʃən/, workshop /ˈwɝk.ʃɑp/, sheer /ʃɪɚ/, apprenticeship /əˈpɹɛn.tɪs.ʃɪp/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: coincidence /kəʊˈɪnsɪdəns/, extraordinary /ɪksˈtɹɔːrdɪn(ə)ɹi/, unemployment /ʌn.ɪmˈplɔɪ.mənt/, disability /dɪsəˈbɪlɪti/, apprenticeship /əˈpɹɛn.tɪs.ʃɪp/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: courage /ˈkʌ.ɹɪd͡ʒ/, grave /ɡɹeɪv/, perceive /pɚˈsiv/, misunderstand /mɪs.ʌn.də(ɹ)ˈstænd/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: passion /ˈpæʃən/, anger /ˈæŋɡə/, craftsman /ˈkɹæftsmən/, misunderstand /mɪs.ʌn.də(ɹ)ˈstænd/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: anger /ˈæŋɡə/, grave /ɡɹeɪv/
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 confront, profession, coincidence.
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.