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I don't usually try to make my books as they come out better known by putting them onto social media
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but I make an exception in the case of this book which has just come out last week called Essays.
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What I have learnt about myself and the world with cover with me in my woodland path.
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I'm doing that because I've been surprised,
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indeed enormously warmed by the reception of a few of the
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key people who've been involved in the process of bringing this book to publication.
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I remember it as a book
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which I wrote at the suggestion of my wife shortly after Covid
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when she said write down what you've learned about your life
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and so on and I started to dictate some short essays
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and I greatly enjoyed it
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and it ended up in 240 very short essays roughly modeled on the idea
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and memory of Montaigne's essays but much much shorter.
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And when recently I thought I would publish it, I thought, well, this is a useful book and I want it out there.
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But some of the people, several of the people who were closely acquainted with it, thought it was really special.
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And so I'll indicate their views by quoting them a little bit.
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But basically to tell you of the structure, it is, as I say,
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a number of essays on anything that struck me as useful and interesting and quirky.
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For example, under the letter L, it's alphabetical, on the leaning tower of Pisa,
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on liberty, on libraries, on limited good,
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on loneliness, on losing, on love, on lying.
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Well that's a tiny cross section and you can see that it covers serious and less serious subjects.
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So what do my colleagues and friends say about it?
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Well there's a forward by our close friend Baron JC von Fetten
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and he writes as a Frenchman who was a great admirer of Montaigne
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that in some ways my essays are go beyond Montaigne.
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They are shorter, more succinct, more accessible.
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And he starts his short forward as follows.
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Essays may well constitute Alan MacFarlane's ultimate contribution to human knowledge.
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It is written for scholars and the wider public alike.
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The book is the result of 60 years of deep anthropological research conducted across the world,
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using observation as its primary method and extracting knowledge through a rigorous process of analysis and reflection.
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The reader will therefore find in each essay a remarkably practical set of insights and answers.
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And he ends, after decades of experience, research and reflection, and after writing dozens of books,
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McFarland has succeeded in turning his analytical gaze both upon the world and upon himself.
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The result is essays, a work that distils lifetime search for wisdom.
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The second person who has commented was the person who edited the book,
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my friend Irene Galstian, and she's written about this several times in emails,
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but this is a small extract from one email.
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As you become a long-time reader of these essays, their effect on you goes to a different level.
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And this is where they truly shine.
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Well, shine is too vigorous a word for what I am trying to describe.
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It's more like a glow.
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With repeated reading, these little talks are calming in a way that can't be explained by their intellectual content alone. So those are two.
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And then there's a wonderful postscript by Qin Yuchen,
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who is translating the book into Chinese.
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And I'll just read one part of her remarkable and beautiful postface.
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What the letters do for me is what these essays did when I first read them.
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They come in like air from outside.
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The anxiety of my generation is real enough.
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The rungs, as he put it, have gone from the ladder we were all brought up to climb.
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What struck me was how precisely these small essays answer that predicament.
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A letter written at first light by an 80-year-old grandfather,
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who is also one of the great historical anthropologists of his time,
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lifts you clear of all that and sets you down somewhere higher up and further off, from which the trouble is visible in its true proportion.
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Old, general, survivable, shared with everyone who has ever lived.
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We are not the first age of anxiety, he says, nor will we be the last.
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I know of no better remedy.
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And indeed, some of these essays which have gone up onto social media like YouTube and Chinese social media
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have elicited those same sentiments from people who have heard them.
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So, as I say, it's on Amazon Essays by Helen McFarlane,
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and I think you may share their feeling.
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It's a book which has a lot of my final and deeper reflections in it,
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and I'm proud that my close friends anyway, think it's really worthwhile.
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Thank you.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau C1 is gebaseerd op de video “Essays what book is SD 480p”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: essay, reflection, letter, written. Deze video bevat 65 zinnen en 810 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 7:06. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 114 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. Slechts 79% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| litter zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈlɪt.ɚ/ | strooisel |
| extract zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɛkstɹækt/ | fragment |
| admirer zelfstandig naamwoord | /ædˈmaɪ.ɹɚ/ | bewonderaar, bewonderaarster |
| alphabetical bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˌæl.fəˈbɛt.ɪ.kəl/ | alfabetisch |
| anthropological bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /æn.θɹə.pəˈlɑd͡ʒikəl/ | antropologisch |
| anthropologist zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˌæn.θɹoʊˈpɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/ | antropoloog, antropologe |
| distil werkwoord | /dəˈstɪl/ | distilleren |
| elicit werkwoord | /ɪˈlɪsɪt/ | ontlokken, oproepen |
| postscript zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈpoʊst.skɹɪpt/ | postscriptum, nota bene |
| predicament zelfstandig naamwoord | /pɹɪˈdɪkəmənt/ | klasse |
| vigorous bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈvɪɡəɹəs/ | krachtig, sterk |
| quirky bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈkwɜːki/ | eigenaardig, merkwaardig |
| loneliness zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈloʊnlinəs/ | eenzaamheid |
| rigorous bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈɹɪɡəɹəs/ | rigoureus |
| gaze werkwoord | /ɡeɪz/ | staren, turen |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| come out werkwoord | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | uitkomen |
| write down werkwoord | opschrijven, neerschrijven |
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 | has just come · have learnt · I've been |
| Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding | book which has · people who were · person who has |
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | who've been involved · is written · can't be explained |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 9 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'll, I'm, can't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De “th”-klanken: anthropological /æn.θɹə.pəˈlɑd͡ʒikəl/, anthropologist /ˌæn.θɹoʊˈpɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/, worthwhile /ˌwɜː(ɹ)θˈwaɪl/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: alphabetical /ˌæl.fəˈbɛt.ɪ.kəl/, anthropological /æn.θɹə.pəˈlɑd͡ʒikəl/, anthropologist /ˌæn.θɹoʊˈpɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/, predicament /pɹɪˈdɪkəmənt/, analytical /ˌæn.əˈlɪt.ɪ.kəl/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: woodland /ˈwʊd.lənd/, gaze /ɡeɪz/, colleague /ˈkɒliːɡ/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: extract /ˈɛkstɹækt/, admirer /ædˈmaɪ.ɹɚ/, alphabetical /ˌæl.fəˈbɛt.ɪ.kəl/, anthropological /æn.θɹə.pəˈlɑd͡ʒikəl/, anthropologist /ˌæn.θɹoʊˈpɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: vigorous /ˈvɪɡəɹəs/, rigorous /ˈɹɪɡəɹəs/, gaze /ɡeɪz/, glow /ɡloʊ/, colleague /ˈkɒliːɡ/
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 litter, extract, admirer.
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.