Shadowing Practice: Getting to know Deva Cassel, our April 2025 cover star - Learn English Speaking with Video

Hi, I'm Deva Cassell and I'm on the cover of Tathler Asia.

I'm a Virgo.

Yes, if I'm not mistaken,

I learned this when I was really little.

I'm a monkey.

That's very hard to tell actually.

I love a lot of different things,

but I love Japanese food.

Pasta.

Easy with like tomato sauce and basil.

I can cook a lot of stuff.

I actually love cooking and I like to come up with my own recipes,

but I do like to give it,

I would say, maybe like an Asian fusion.

I like risotto, because it doesn't come out good every time,

and it's a very specific kind of rice,

so I like trying different flavors and just blending different tastes.

My favorite show on Netflix is actually,

it came out very recently,

it's called Il Gatto Pardo.

It's a beautiful story, it's a beautiful series,

and I really recommend it.

Me?

Oh, you should mention that.

I play Angelica, Angelica Sedara.

Hard to tell, but I would consider myself more of a cat person.

I think I just have more of that feline attitude.

Bit of both, actually.

It takes a lot of energy from me to be around people,

but I also often need people to get more energy.

So it really balances out everything.

My love language is acts of service and physical touch.

I think it's a mix between oily and dry.

It really does whatever it wants.

It depends on the day.

To never stop at the first thing.

Just to always look for something different in you, from what I know.

Hopefully on a beach somewhere.

I haven't been to that many places.

I've been to India and Singapore.

And I'm going to go to Japan very soon,

which I'm very, very excited about because I've been waiting such a long time for that trip.

But I would love to explore more.

The food.

Casual chic, sort of a tomboy ballerina mix.

Depends on the mood, depends on the day

but I tend to for example always take my drinks hot even when it's really warm outside.

I love me a good either chai latte or vanilla latte.

I like a lot of things.

Neither.

I like tourmalines.

They're my favorites.

And more specifically, actually, I think we shot about with it today.

There was this tourmaline stone with these crocodiles that have a very specific name.

Yususha?

Yususha or something like that.

I forgot how to pronounce it,

but those were just my favorite piece.

I think one of my favorites that I've ever worn from Cartier.

wear me.

I mean I usually wear pretty small things.

I don't go for the extremes and I mean I don't usually wear

that much jewelry anyways because of my work you know I often have to change

and take it off and I don't get to wear it as much as I would like to.

So yeah but I do like very you know a nice pair of earrings I think is always really nice.

She wears some rings and she wore a lot of like these coral necklaces and earrings.

I mean they were very beautiful,

simple pieces as well, but I think they really represent her in their minimalism.

La joie.

Joy.

I was talking about it before,

it's like I really love the panthère.

I think it's such a beautiful symbol of la maison and it really symbolizes Cartier,

it embodies it so well,

but I connect more with Le Clou.

I really like that collection.

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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les

Deze spreekles op niveau B2 is gebaseerd op de video “Getting to know Deva Cassel, our April 2025 cover star”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: wear, favorite, beautiful, depends. Deze video bevat 76 zinnen en 597 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 3:39. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 164 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. Slechts 76% 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
depend werkwoord	/dɪˈpɛnd/	afhangen
earring zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈɪəɹɪŋ/	oorbel, oorring
tourmaline zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈtʊɚ.mə.lɪn/	toermalijn
crocodile zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈkɹɑkədaɪl/	krokodil
embody werkwoord	/ɪmˈbɒdi/	belichamen
feline bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/ˈfiːlaɪn/	katachtig
minimalism zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈmɪn.ə.məl.ɪz.əm/	minimalisme
symbolize werkwoord	/ˈsɪmbəlaɪz/	symboliseren
tomboy zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈtɑm.bɔɪ/	tomboy, wildebras
basil zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈbæz.əl/	basilicum, bazielkruid
pronounce werkwoord	/pɹəˈnaʊns/	uitspreken, verklaren
chic bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/ʃik/	chic, chique
jewellery zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈd͡ʒʊ-/	sieraad
tomato zelfstandig naamwoord	/təˈmeɪ.toʊ/	tomaat
necklace zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈnɛkləs/	halssnoer, halsketting

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

Woord	Uitspraak	Betekenis
come out werkwoord	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	uitkomen
come up with werkwoord		bedenken, verzinnen

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 16 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, don't, I've. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

De klanken “sh” en “zh”: chic /ʃik/, fusion /ˈfjuː.ʒən/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: depend /dɪˈpɛnd/, extremes /ɪkˈstɹimz/, symbolize /ˈsɪmbəlaɪz/, blend /blɛnd/, anyways /ˈɛn.iˌweɪz/

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 depend, earring, tourmaline.

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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