Shadowing Practice: How to Become Extraordinary (or Not) - Learn English Speaking with Video
Les maken...
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If you're like me, you're probably binge watching your 81st video right now.
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Hey, I can't blame you.
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I do the same shit.
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But you know, it's funny watching YouTube all the time or being on social media all the the time,
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you're always exposed to the most extraordinary parts of human experience.
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For instance, I can get on YouTube or Instagram
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and I can instantly see a guy pick up a thousand pounds off the floor
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and he's got arms like the size of my toilet bowl.
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Or I can see an eight-year-old who's better at piano than I am at anything, really.
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You see this encouragement of the extraordinary all over pop culture.
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You see it in talk shows, you see it in inspirational figures, you see it in commercials, and you especially see it in the self-help industry.
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One of the biggest things that's sold to you in the self-help industry is
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that we all have this special extraordinary thing inside us, and it's just waiting to get out.
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All you need to know is the secret to get it out of you.
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That unless you're doing something incredible with your life, then it's somehow wasted.
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I think this is bullshit.
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In fact, I think the problem isn't so much us, we've lost track of what normal, good human experience is actually like.
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First of all, most of us are going to be ordinary at the vast majority of things that we do.
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Second of all, even if you are able to lift a thousand pounds off the ground or whatever,
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doesn't necessarily make you a good father or a good friend or or even a good person.
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These extraordinary things that we're exposed to while being super cool
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and entertaining aren't necessarily the most important metrics to be gauging our lives on.
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So this is a bell curve and
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if you wanted to graph most human skills and activities
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and put all the people who are the very best on the right
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and all the people who are very worst on the left, what you end up getting is a nice bell shape.
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The vast majority of people are in the middle somewhere, and as you get out to either extreme, there are fewer and fewer people at those extremities.
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When we see something like, I don't know, Michael Jordan slam dunking, he's in the 99.9th percentile.
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He's one of the best human beings that has ever lived.
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He's on this part of the bell curve.
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He's so far on this end of the bell curve that you can't even see what's over there.
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He doesn't even show up on the graph.
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And then you take somebody like, I don't know, this guy, he's so much worse than everybody.
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He's on the other end of the bell curve.
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What all this great technology and media has done to us is that we are constantly exposed to the extremes, to the tail ends of the bell curve,
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while we go outside and our day-to-day life is in the fat, boring middle.
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But Mark, if I'm not extraordinary, what do I do with my life?
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And it's like, well, who says you need to be extraordinary to have a valuable and meaningful life?
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In fact, I would argue that some of the most important things in life are not extraordinary at all.
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Things like raising a kid well, things like taking care of your health, being an honest and good person to your friends and family.
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These are not extraordinary things.
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In fact, they are the most ordinary things.
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And I think they're ordinary things for a reason, because they're the most important.
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And there's a paradox to this as well.
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If you want to do one of those extraordinary things, the way you do it is by doing the ordinary extremely well for a long time.
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For instance, that dude who lifts a thousand pounds, I mean, he's probably been hitting the gym three hours a day for the last 25 years.
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There's nothing extraordinary about going into the gym and lifting slightly more weight than you did last time.
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When you compound that over the course of decades, you end up with an extraordinary result.
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But if you go into it looking for the extraordinary result, you're going to create false expectations and you're just going to feel like shit about yourself.
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And so there's this contrast.
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Our actual lived experience is, I'm just like everybody fucking else.
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But our expectation is, is I should be jumping out of planes in a wingsuit and fucking landing on Mount Everest.
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It's one of those things that while the intention is very good, I think it causes more suffering than it resolves.
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So I say fuck being extraordinary.
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Let's bring back the ordinary.
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Let's bring back being average.
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Because if we're being honest, we're all pretty average most of the time.
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And that's okay.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau B2 is gebaseerd op de video “How to Become Extraordinary”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: extraordinary, bell, curve, ordinary, exposed. Deze video bevat 58 zinnen en 831 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 4:45. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 175 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. 86% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| curve zelfstandig naamwoord | /kɚv/ | curve, kromming |
| expose werkwoord | /ɪkˈspoʊz/ | zichtbaar maken, blootleggen |
| expectation zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/ | verwachting, afwachting |
| graph zelfstandig naamwoord | /ɡɹæf/ | grafiek |
| extremity zelfstandig naamwoord | /ɪkˈstɹɛməti/ | uiterste, extremiteit |
| binge zelfstandig naamwoord | /bɪnd͡ʒ/ | zuippartij, binge |
| paradox zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈpæ.ɹəˌdɒks/ | paradox, tegenspraak |
| encouragement zelfstandig naamwoord | [ɪnˈkʌɹɪd͡ʒmənt] | aanmoediging |
| entertain werkwoord | /ˌɛntəˈteɪn/ | vermaken, amuseren |
| metric bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈmɛt.ɹɪk/ | metriek |
| bore werkwoord | /boɹ/ | vervelen |
| slam werkwoord | /ˈslæm/ | toeslaan |
| gauge zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɡeɪd͡ʒ/ | meter |
| meaningful bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈmiː.nɪŋ.fl̩/ | zinvol |
| resolve werkwoord | /ɹɪˈzɑlv/ | oplossen |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Betekenis |
|---|---|
| end up werkwoord | belanden, terechtkomen |
| pick up werkwoord | oppakken, optillen |
Zinnen om te herhalen
Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:
- Hey, I can't blame you.
- Let's bring back the ordinary.
- Let's bring back being average.
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | we've lost · has ever lived · has done |
| Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding | people who are |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 22 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals you're, we're, can't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/, inspirational /ˌɪnspəˈɹeɪʃənəl/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/, extremity /ɪkˈstɹɛməti/, inspirational /ˌɪnspəˈɹeɪʃənəl/, encouragement [ɪnˈkʌɹɪd͡ʒmənt]
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 curve, expose, expectation.
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.