Shadowing Practice: How learning a language can be a messy affair - Learn English Speaking with Video
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So I think one of the things that's really interesting, that I find interesting, is how language changes.
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And it changes within groups.
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So you notice it particularly with teenagers.
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I've got teenagers in the house, so that's something that I pick up on.
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And teenagers will change the meaning of a word that I will recognize.
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So they'll say that something is sick, and I think, oh, that must be awful, terrible.
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But actually, no, for the teenagers, sick is a really good thing.
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So teenagers, to form their social group, their gang, they will deliberately change language and they'll make it their own.
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And they will use it within their group and they actually don't really want other people to understand it.
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So I think that's a really interesting area where you see a lot of language change.
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You obviously get it with the number of different speakers
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that we have around the world and different groups will use language in a different way.
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So to me it's a really interesting area.
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So it's very interesting.
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Language obviously is always evolving.
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But to me this idea that we play with language deliberately, you know, in order to consolidate our relationships,
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I think that's a really kind of interesting area to work with.
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And it's a good quality that we can work with our students on that, you know, being playful with language
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and allowing them to have the freedom to play with it a little bit as well is good for their confidence, I think.
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I think one of our jobs as teachers or something
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that I believe in very passionately is that we need to be authentic.
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So there's a tendency I think within education to simplify things for learners
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and to make it all very clear cut so
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that we have clear rules for the grammar and there's an answer and this is right and this is wrong.
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And learners like that kind of security.
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And I think as teachers, we often like that security as well.
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We have a rule, we can teach it, we can mark the work.
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But real language is much messier than that.
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The boundaries are not always so clear-cut.
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So for me, one of the jobs as a teacher is to try
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and gradually get your learners used to
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that idea get them used to tolerating ambiguity and being aware that there isn't always a clear right or wrong answer,
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there are lots of exceptions to the rules, and that they should just be okay with that.
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It doesn't matter all the time and you can make little mistakes, but so long as it's not really interfering with the communication too much,
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then we don't have to worry about it.
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So I think that's important for both teachers
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and learners to sort of get used to that idea that we can't control everything.
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It's a bit unrealistic.
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Language in the real world just doesn't work like that.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze video bevat 39 zinnen en 498 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 2:55. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 171 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. 88% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is goed te volgen.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
15 woorden uit de video die het leren waard zijn, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| teenager zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈtiːnˌeɪ̯d͡ʒə/ | tiener, adolescent |
| deliberately bijwoord | /dɪˈlɪb.(ə.)ɹət.li/ | bewust, expres |
| awful bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈɔːfʊl/ | verschrikkelijk, vreselijk |
| exception zelfstandig naamwoord | /əkˈsɛpʃən/ | uitzondering |
| gradually bijwoord | /ˈɡɹæd͡ʒuəli/ | geleidelijk, allengs |
| grammar zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɡɹæm.ə(ɹ)/ | spraakkunst, grammatica |
| boundary zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈbaʊndɹi/ | grens |
| authentic bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ɔˈθɛn.tɪk/ | authentiek, echt |
| tendency zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈtɛn.dən.si/ | neiging |
| messy bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈmɛsi/ | wanordelijk, chaotisch |
| tolerate werkwoord | /ˈtɑ.lə.ɹeɪt/ | verdragen, tolereren |
| evolve werkwoord | /ɪˈvɑlv/ | ontwikkelen |
| unrealistic bijvoeglijk naamwoord | onrealistisch | |
| ambiguity zelfstandig naamwoord | /æm.bɪˈɡjuː.ɪ.ti/ | dubbelzinnigheid, ambiguïteit |
| consolidate werkwoord | /kənˈsɒl.ɪ.deɪt/ | consolideren, versterken |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 9 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals doesn't, don't, they'll. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: exception /əkˈsɛpʃən/, passionately /ˈpæʃənətli/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: deliberately /dɪˈlɪb.(ə.)ɹət.li/, ambiguity /æm.bɪˈɡjuː.ɪ.ti/, consolidate /kənˈsɒl.ɪ.deɪt/, passionately /ˈpæʃənətli/
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 teenager, deliberately, awful.
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.