Shadowing Practice: How I use a pocket brush pen - Learn English Speaking with Video

Hey y'all, Austin Kleon here.

Today I want to talk to you about a tool I cannot live without.

It's a Pentel Pocket Brush Pen.

And I've been using this for years.

And whenever I get sort of bombed out with my diary habit, I unleash what I call the magic of the brush here.

And I sort of wanted to show you how I use it in my diary.

So I'm gonna actually just do a diary entry today for you.

So These things are really.. these are so so magic.

So that the way that these brush pens work is they have a little

cartridge just like you'd have with a fountain pen.

They kind of look like this and then there's a like synthetic brush on the end of it.

And this thing, I think this is like 10 years old and it keeps a really nice point and

And one of the things I really like about working with the brush, I'm going to turn a light on here so you can make sure to see me well,

is it just gets this really nice kind of fun line.

Like if you press hard, you get big fat lines.

If you press really lightly, you get little skinny lines.

So you can have a lot of fun with this.

So when I get kind of bombed out, I just love the loose and playful nature of this.

And it's a Monday.

Sometimes I write the time.

But a lot of times when I start my diary, I don't really know what I'm going to write about for the day.

So often I'll just start drawing.

Like lately I've been drawing a lot of ghosts.

This brush is just so responsive.

Sometimes I'll just do a bunch of ghosts until I come up with an idea.

Just do-do-do-do-do.

I never have anything planned when I sit down with my diary.

I just kind of like sit down with it and just kind of let it go.

And this might be too messy for some people,

but for me there's just something really loose and freeing about the brush.

And this is something I learned from my hero Linda Barry, who you probably hear me talk a lot about.

But the big deal today is that my son Owen is turned nine years old. So, alright.

Owen is nine.

And I am feeling the feelings.

because it is true i am feeling the feelings today

and then sometimes i'll just do like there's something about you know miss linda tells us

that if you just kind of keep your

brush or your pen in motion new ideas come and

so i just have so much fun with this brush

and i don't worry about writing too much or anything like

that the other thing that miss linda tells us is that if you write really slowly, interesting things will come.

So I was somebody when I was younger, I thought free writing, you had to like write really fast and just let it all like kind of out.

But there's something about just going really really slowly like even

if you just start making an s sometimes the word will appear

that you need but I just you know if you just kind of concentrate on making the letters

and breathe in and do what Miss Linda tells us.

You just kind of slow down.

But there's just something magic about the rush.

There's something about slowing down and just letting things come

and I just I just love it it just it just really frees me up

so this Pentel brush pen

and you can do all kinds of things with this let

me let me find you like another entry sometimes I'll do

these kind of wild pages where I make like little comics

sometimes oh this is a drawing I'll copy a drawing from

my from my my six-year-old this is my idea for Muppets at Walden there's just there's a

but yeah I do a lot of my comics this way

so I heard my diaries this way

and I'll draw a lot of comics in there and and

and the words come along with them

but there's just something magic about the brush

so to tell you a little bit more about the pen like

so I have three of these bad boys

and I've never had any problems with them and they come with this little cartridge.

Now these cartridges do they sort of go away real quickly, like they get used up really fast.

So I was on YouTube the other day and I found out that if you buy a,

if you buy a blunt tip syringe, you can get these like anywhere really.

It's actually hard to buy them in person.

You just got to go online.

And a pot of ink.

You can actually refill these bad boys yourself.

So you literally just kind of like stick the...

Stick it in there like that.

And you want to use a syringe because there's nothing really this thin that will fit in these little cartridges.

Then you just stick the syringe in there.

And you can fill the cartridge back up.

I didn't get enough ink.

Just like that.

And then you have like a brand new cartridge

and then you can just unscrew the pen and just stick it right back in there.

And then any excess ink you just kind of squeeze back out.

The other really fun thing that I wanted to show you is that I discovered the other day

is if you have a syringe full of ink, check this out, it basically becomes a,

I don't know if this will work now, it becomes an airbrush.

So you can do these kind of crazy little ink effects here.

You got to be a little careful because it can get messy real quick.

So yeah, so I don't know when this turned into a craft channel, but anyway.

So the Pilot Pocket Brush Pen.

Love this thing.

and I'll put a link to it in my newsletter and below the video.

Anyway, happy writing and drawing and I hope this wasn't too dorky

and maybe it was a little bit of fun for you.

Bye!

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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les

Deze spreekles op niveau B1 is gebaseerd op de video “How I use a pocket brush pen”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: brush, pen, cartridge, ink, diary. Deze video bevat 93 zinnen en 1066 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 8:06. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 131 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. 83% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken.

Belangrijke woorden in deze video

De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:

Woord	Uitspraak	Betekenis
brush zelfstandig naamwoord	/bɹʌʃ/	borstel, (paint-) verfborstel
cartridge zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈkɑɹtɹɪd͡ʒ/	patroon
diary zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈdaɪ.ə.ɹi/	dagboek
syringe zelfstandig naamwoord	/səˈɹɪnd͡ʒ/	injectiespuit, spuit
messy bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/ˈmɛsi/	wanordelijk, chaotisch
refill zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈɹiː.fɪl/	tankbeurt
unleash werkwoord	/ʌnˈliʃ/	loslaten, vrijlaten
newsletter zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈn(j)uzˌlɛtɚ/	nieuwsbrief
blunt bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/blʌnt/	stomp, bot
fountain zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈfaʊn.tɪn/	fontein
squeeze werkwoord	/skwiːz/	drukken, klemmen
synthetic bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/sɪnˈθɛtɪk/	synthetisch
skinny bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/ˈskɪni/	mager
concentrate werkwoord	/ˈkɑn.sən.tɹeɪt/	concentreren
excess zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈɛksɛs/	teveel

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

Woord	Betekenis
slow down werkwoord	afremmen
back out werkwoord	zich terugtrekken
back up werkwoord	teruggaan
come up with werkwoord	bedenken, verzinnen
find out werkwoord	ontdekken, onderzoeken
go away werkwoord	weggaan

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 21 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'll, don't, I'm. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

De “th”-klanken: synthetic /sɪnˈθɛtɪk/, breathe /bɹiːð/
De klanken “sh” en “zh”: brush /bɹʌʃ/, unleash /ʌnˈliʃ/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: cartridge /ˈkɑɹtɹɪd͡ʒ/, syringe /səˈɹɪnd͡ʒ/, responsive /ɹɪˈspɑn.sɪv/, squeeze /skwiːz/
/æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: habit /ˈhæb.ɪt/, craft /ˈkɹæft/

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 brush, cartridge, diary.

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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