Shadowing Practice: Grade 12-Unit 1-Getting Started - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Hi Nam, your book must be very interesting.
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What are you reading?
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I'm reading a really good book in English called Last Night I Dreamed of Peace, the diary of Dang Thuy Tram.
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Dang Thuy Tram, who is she?
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She was born in Hue in 1942.
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She studied medicine in Hanoi and volunteered to join the army at the age of 24,
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working as a surgeon during the resistance war against the US.
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That's when she started her diary, isn't it?
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Yes, she wrote her diary while she was working in a field hospital in Quang Nhai province.
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The diary contains personal accounts of her experiences during the war and shows her love for her family and country.
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Wow, it sounds interesting.
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Is she still alive?
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Unfortunately, she was killed by the enemy while she was doing her duty in the jungle in Kuang-Nai province.
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She was only 27 then.
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Oh, that's really sad.
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But how did people find her diary?
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An American soldier found it and saved it from being burnt.
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more than 30 years after Tram's death, a copy was returned to her mother.
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The diary was published in Vietnam in 2005.
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It has also been translated into several other languages.
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That's amazing.
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Now she is considered a national hero for devoting her youth and whole life to saving other people's lives in the war.
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Can you lend me the book when you finish reading it?
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I'd like to read it myself.
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Sure.

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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.