Shadowing Practice: Foraging the U.S. Capitol - Learn English Speaking with Video
Les maken...
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I'm here at the U.S.
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Capitol in Washington, D.C about to lead a foraging walk.
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And today I'm going to share with you 10 easy to identify beginner plants that are growing right here at the U.S.
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Capitol.
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There's not just nuts in the office, there's nuts on the U.S lawn too.
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This is hazelnut growing right here.
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I'm sitting in a bed of ground ivy.
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This is a weed growing in most lawns and aromatic.
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Once you smell this, you'll never forget this smell.
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It's great food and medicine.
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Mulberry.
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Of course, many of you know that berries are edible, but the leaves, when they're young and tender, quite good.
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Enjoy.
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All these leaves are edible.
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It looks like the landscapers missed a weed right here.
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Dandelion, a wonderful bidder, edible from the tip of the flowers down to the tip of the roots.
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And nestled among here we have what we call an LVM
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little brown mushroom this is not beginner food right here thank
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you to the human beings who plant trees this is linden close relative of basswood the young
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and tender leaves are edible the flowers you can harvest in the summer
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and make a nice sleepy time tea
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and then in the fall you can harvest the seeds and according to Alexis Nicole Nelson,
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black forager, you can roast these and make a chocolate-like flavor.
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Some would say don't eat any of this food leave it for the animals
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but they're literally mowing over this food with a lawnmower.
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This is plantago or plantain and it's a wonderful food and medicine.
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It can help you go poop via the fibrous seed heads
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and just a wonderful green source for all the ways in which you'd eat a green.
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There's not just weeds to eat, there's hundreds of pounds of food falling to the sidewalks most every fall at the U.S.
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Capitol.
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This mighty oak behind me produces the mighty acorn, which I love to eat.
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Coming soon.
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Three sassafras trees in a row right here at the Capitol.
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And you know what?
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You can eat these leaves.
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Look at the thorns on the trifoliate orange.
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You have to be careful when you're picking these.
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The most northern citrus that I know.
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A treat for those of us who are up north.
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Not ready yet.
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Just got another month or so.
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They recently mowed, but these violets, they made it through.
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These are a tender green that I like to eat raw.
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Of course, a wonderful medicine too.
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And right next to this, check out this little white mushroom.
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Who knows, maybe it's inedible.
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And you know what?
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The number one rule of foraging is you only eat something if you're 100% sure, and I'm not sure at all.
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So this mushroom stays here at the US Capitol.
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ginkgo leaves, unmistakable for any other leaf that grows around here.
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Once these turn yellow in the fall and they're starting to fall off, wonderful time to harvest them for tea.
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So there you have it dear friends.
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You can see food and medicine is growing abundantly even here at the U.S.
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Capitol.
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And I bet if you tune in you will see
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that it is growing freely and abundantly right outside of your doors and in your community.
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What do you think?
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Is it time to critically think, to question our societal norms and structures, to really break free from the systems that no longer serve.
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One plant at a time we can reconnect and we can live a life of deep meaning and purpose.
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The lives that we truly want to.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau B2 is gebaseerd op de video “Foraging the U.S. Capitol”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: eat, Capitol, wonderful, growing, edible. Deze video bevat 60 zinnen en 611 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 4:29. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 136 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. Slechts 80% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| edible bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈɛdəbəl/ | eetbaar |
| harvest zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈhɑɹ.vəst/ | oogst |
| tender bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈtɛn.dɚ/ | gevoelig |
| abundantly bijwoord | /əˈbʌn.dn̩t.li/ | overvloedig |
| forage zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈfoɹɪd͡ʒ/ | voeder, voer |
| mow werkwoord | /ˈmoʊ/ | maaien |
| beginner zelfstandig naamwoord | /bəˈɡɪnɚ/ | beginneling, beginnelinge |
| lawn zelfstandig naamwoord | /lɔːn/ | gazon, grasperk |
| mighty bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈmaɪti/ | machtig |
| aromatic bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˌɛɹ.əˈmæt.ɪk/ | aromatisch, geurig |
| bidder zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈbɪ.dɚ/ | bieder |
| dandelion zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈdæn.dəˌlaɪ.ən/ | paardenbloem |
| fibrous bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈfaɪbɹəs/ | fibreus, vezelig |
| ginkgo zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɡɪŋ.kəʊ/ | ginkgo, Japanse notenboom |
| hazelnut zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈheɪzəlˌnʌt/ | hazelnoot |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Betekenis |
|---|---|
| check out werkwoord | onderzoeken |
Zinnen om te herhalen
Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:
- I'm sitting in a bed of ground ivy.
- Once you smell this, you'll never forget this smell.
- You have to be careful when you're picking these.
- What do you think?
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 12 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, they're, you're. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: aromatic /ˌɛɹ.əˈmæt.ɪk/, dandelion /ˈdæn.dəˌlaɪ.ən/, inedible /ɪˈnɛ.dɪ.bəl/, critically /ˈkɹɪt.ɪ.kə.li/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: forage /ˈfoɹɪd͡ʒ/, basswood /ˈbæswʊd/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: aromatic /ˌɛɹ.əˈmæt.ɪk/, basswood /ˈbæswʊd/, dandelion /ˈdæn.dəˌlaɪ.ən/, landscaper /ˈlænd.skeɪp.ɚ/, plantain /ˈplæn.tɪn/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: beginner /bəˈɡɪnɚ/, ginkgo /ˈɡɪŋ.kəʊ/
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 edible, harvest, tender.
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.