Shadowing Practice: Honey Coffee Processing - Learn English Speaking with Video

In recent years, a processing method known as honey has become more common, especially in parts of Central America.

While washed coffee has all of its fruit material removed as quickly as possible, including the skin and the mucilage, in a honey process, only the skin is fully removed,

and the seed is allowed to dry in some or all of its fruit mucilage.

Honey processing is not as widely used as some of the other methods, but it's increasingly found in places like Costa Rica and El Salvador.

While it shares similarities with the Brazilian pulp natural process, there are differences to both the methodology and the results.

As with any type of post -harvest processing, the steps involved vary from place to place.

In this video, we'll look at how the Chacon family at Las Lajas Micromil

in Costa Rica achieves their coffee's distinct profiles using the honey process.

Just as in the washed process, coffee cherries first need to be picked ripe and sorted to make sure that only the best cherries are included in production.

Also identical to the washed process is the fact that the coffee needs to be depulped as soon as possible after picking, usually between 8 and 12 hours.

There are several variations of honey coffee that are commonly found in Costa Rica and elsewhere, and they're typically described with reference to color.

You'll often find yellow, red, and black honeys from different mills, for instance.

At Las Lajas, all of the honey coffee starts out the same way.

The cherry skin is removed by a depulping machine, but 100 % of the mucilage is left on the seeds.

The main focus of producing honey coffees at Las Lajas is in the drying phase.

coffees at this mill are taken directly from the depulper to the drying area

depending on the weather that day and on what oscar

and francisca chacon decide is best for

that lot the seeds in their mucilage will be set out to dry in one of several different ways

for yellow honeys as seen here coffee's moved onto tarp covered patios under full sun

or it's raked into a thin layer for fast even drying.

For something more fruity and fermented tasting, such as a red or a black honey, the coffee's piled in the greenhouse for certain amounts of time before being agitated,

rotated, aerated, and raked out by mill staff.

During the drying time, the coffee's fermenting and developing the characteristics that are unique to each honey profile.

Drying time depends on both the weather and the individual style of honey process being applied, but it usually takes between two to three weeks for the coffee to reach about 11 % moisture.

At Las Lajas, the Chacones focus primarily on honey and natural coffees, and they produce yellow, red, and black honeys with coffees from their different farms.

Each honey style has a slightly different profile.

Yellow tends to be the most mild in terms of fruitiness, most closely resembling a washed coffee.

Red honey tends to have bigger fruit flavors and sweetness, as well as a noticeably more syrupy body.

Black honeys express more whiny, boozy, or jammy characteristics with a creamy body, almost like a lighter version of a natural.

While this is just one example of the honey process, the chacones are considered standard bearers of the style within the industry, and they're a great example of intentional and innovative processing methodology.

Once the coffee is fully dried, it'll be stored in its parchment layer in a warehouse until it's ready to be exported.

Then the parchment layer will be removed and the coffee gets shipped.

We'll see you next time.

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Deze spreekles is gebaseerd op de video “Honey Coffee Processing”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: Honey, coffee, process, drying, Chacon. Deze video bevat 27 zinnen en 611 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 4:31. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 135 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. Slechts 75% 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
layer zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈleɪ̯ɚ/	laag
mill zelfstandig naamwoord	/mɪl/	molen
cherry zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈt͡ʃɛɹi/	kers, morel
seed zelfstandig naamwoord	/siːd/	zaad
depend werkwoord	/dɪˈpɛnd/	afhangen
characteristic zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˌkæɹ(ə)ktəˈɹɪstɪk/	trekje, karakteristiek
methodology zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˌmɛθ.əˈdɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/	methodologie
thin bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/ˈθɪn/	dun
increasingly bijwoord		in toenemende mate
vary werkwoord	/ˈvɛəɹi/	variëren
export zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈɛks.pɔɹt/	export, uitvoer
identical bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/ɪˈdɛntɪkl̩/	identiek, identieke
pile zelfstandig naamwoord	/paɪl/	stapel
mild bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/ˈmaɪld/	mild, zacht
innovative bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/ˈɪn.əˌveɪtɪv/	innovatief

Uitspraak om op te letten

De “th”-klanken: methodology /ˌmɛθ.əˈdɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/, thin /ˈθɪn/
De klanken “sh” en “zh”: variation /ˌvɛəɹiˈeɪʃn̩/, intentional /ɪnˈtɛnʃənəl/
Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: characteristic /ˌkæɹ(ə)ktəˈɹɪstɪk/, methodology /ˌmɛθ.əˈdɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/, primarily /ˈpɹaɪ.mə.ɹə.li/, innovative /ˈɪn.əˌveɪtɪv/, intentional /ɪnˈtɛnʃənəl/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: seed /siːd/, depend /dɪˈpɛnd/, mild /ˈmaɪld/, innovative /ˈɪn.əˌveɪtɪv/, mucilage /ˈmju.sɪ.lɪd͡ʒ/
/æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: characteristic /ˌkæɹ(ə)ktəˈɹɪstɪk/, similarity /ˌsɪm.ɪˈlæɹ.ɪ.ti/, agitate /ˈæ.d͡ʒɪ.teɪt/, jammy /ˈd͡ʒæm.i/, patio /ˈpæt.i.əʊ/
/w/ — met ronde lippen: warehouse /ˈwɛə(ɹ)haʊs/, sweetness /ˈswitnəs/, winy /ˈwaɪni/

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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 layer, mill, cherry.

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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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