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But what has happened through the gradual evolution of thinking is that now humans tend to overthink.
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There is a lot of not only unnecessary thinking that generates unnecessary
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and in many cases non-existent problems such as when you lie awake at night in bed and start worrying.
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It generates a lot of unnecessary unhappiness.
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So people don't realize that a significant part of
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the unhappiness in their lives is actually generated by unnecessary negative
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often destructive mind activity and they don't even know it.
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Mindfulness is first of all
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discovering the simple fact that there is a voice in your head
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that continuously comments on your life or on what's happening around you.
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It's the self-talk and everybody knows what the self-talk is in that you talk to yourself.
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Sometimes you talk to yourself in the first person, some people talk to themselves in the second person, you.
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So you can get annoyed with yourself and then you say, you shouldn't have done that.
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And then you have another thought that says, yes, but I couldn't help it.
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And you might even get a third voice come in, whatever it says to this, why can't I get out of my self-talk?
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That's self-talk too.
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But it's an amazing first thing what I call the first awakening,
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spiritual awakening, is something very basic and something very simple.
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It's a discovery that there is a voice in your head that always talks to you, mostly silently.
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if it talks out aloud then you're continuously
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and there's nobody around then you are considered insane but
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and that's only if it's loud but most people have
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that inside their heads and they are not considered insane it's considered normal
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but there's not such a big difference between the two
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and sometimes when you
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when you listen to them there might be a man walking in the street muttering
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and you say oh he's really insane but it might be
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that you are doing the same
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but it's just not out allowed it's in your head why didn't i should have said
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that why didn't i say
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that next time he does it i'm not exactly know what i'm going to reply
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and it goes on and on or you lie awake at night and start worrying,
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you wake up and oh my god, what's going to happen?
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What if that doesn't work?
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And then that goes wrong?
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And what if he does that and all?
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And then you go into it.
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You get drawn one thought leads to another thought and another thought.
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Oh my God.
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And then the body cannot distinguish between an actual reality,
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an event that's happening in the real life and what your mind is saying.
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So when you have fearful thoughts, the body reacts to every fearful thought,
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but the and that's an emotion, the body reacts with an emotion, the emotion you feel in your body.
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The body cannot distinguish between an actual event and a thought.
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So when you think fearful thoughts, the emotions you feel are the emotions that are saying I am in danger.
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There is an actual danger here.
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So you feel the emotion of fear, anxiety.
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You might feel agitated and it's not only not pleasant
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if you indulge in that kind of useless dysfunctional destructive thinking
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year after year after year it has its effect on the body and it decreases the ability of the body to
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have the energy to fight disease.
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Even mainstream medicine is discovering the connection between your state of mind and your state of health.
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And so gradually we are seeing in the past they denied it completely, they only looked at your body and not only that,
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they didn't just look at the totality of the body, even within the body, they just looked at one particular symptom, what's wrong with that particular organ.
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And you have, of course, in mainstream medicine you have specialists.
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I'm a specialist for the liver, a specialist for this and this and that.
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Not only not taking into account the totality of the body
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but more importantly not taking into account the totality of the person which includes the physical body and the mind.
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So it's vitally important to discover first of all that there is a voice in your head
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that indulges in self-talk most of the time and for many people interestingly enough
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that self-talk for many people is not always negative
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but for many people there's it it is more negative than positive a good event
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that happened yesterday a nice you might have gone to a nice reunion
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or you went out into nature and you witnessed a beautiful sunset.
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Okay, you can remember it today and think that was a beautiful sunset or we had a nice talk yesterday.
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But you can't do that much thinking about a nice event.
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But the mind, when there's something negative that happens yesterday, somebody offended you or didn't give you the attention that you needed,
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that you you want it from him, then you can start thinking of how, oh my God, what he did.
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He's really.. next time he just said, I'm going to say that, or he's really sure.
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Why doesn't he.. you can go on for a long time dwelling on something negative much longer than dwelling on something positive.
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So seemingly a negative event is much more food for useless mind activity than a positive event.
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And this is why for many people a significant percentage of their mind activity is negative.
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For some people it is almost 100% negative, but it is unlikely that these people would get a job in this company.
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And I mean that because your predominant state of consciousness,
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your predominant mental emotional state, there's a certain correlation between who you associate with,
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where you find yourself, and even what kind of things happen to you.
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is a correlation which is not always immediately recognizable
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but there is a correlation between one's a person's predominant mental emotional state and who they are with who their friends are
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what where they work and even what happens to them so
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if you are if you are in a very negative state a long time, you tend to attract also negative events,
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but you can only have to find that out for yourself.
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I'm not saying believe me.
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I know it from my own life because when I first discovered this, I was still very young,
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I discovered that there is a correlation between my mind activity and what happens to me,
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I found a book and that somebody, several books that somebody left with us when I was 17
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and there for the first time I read about a person's mind
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and I suddenly realized my mind was predominantly negative
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because I was a very unhappy child and
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so my childhood was not pleasant and
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so the initial conditioning of my life was that my mind was continuously commenting and saying
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how bad my life was and whenever something bad happened to me i had a phrase
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that would occur again in my mind
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that of course bad things always happen to you don't they
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they're bound to happen to you it always happens to you
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so i was talking to myself and saying that bad things would always happened to me and they did.
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So you can discover first the spiritual awakening is to discover
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that there is continuous mind activity and for some people it's the discovery
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that a significant part of their mind activity is negative.
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But the vital thing is to discover
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that there is this continuous talk in my head
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which is called norm is considered the normal human state
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and of course you cannot abolish thinking of course there will be thinking
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but the question is is there an awareness behind the thinking
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if and if you can become aware that you are indulging
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or caught up in in that useless mind activity and you suddenly become aware of perhaps certain repetitive thoughts
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that tend to re-occur in your mind again and again.
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You might see it in others too, eat more easily in others.
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When you go for your Thanksgiving dinner, I think is it next week, you will meet your family members or relatives
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and some of you may realize you already know what they are going to say this year
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because it's the same thing they said last year and five years
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and ten years ago and if they have negative judgments about you
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or somebody else then it's the same thing you will hear again next week
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when you go to them so it's it's easier to see how others are caught up in repetitive thought forms,
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not as easy to see it in oneself.
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This is why there's a saying that self-knowledge is the most difficult knowledge.
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It's easier to see others.
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But if you can discover, even in the midst, perhaps, in the moment of a certain thought appearing in your mind,
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realizing, oh, that thought is, I've had this thought for years, it comes again and again and again.
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And so there is an observing presence, and from there you get, and that observing presence isn't a thought,
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it's just the ability to realize that there is a voice in your head and that there are thoughts.
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And you realize that some of those thoughts are negative,
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And many of those thoughts actually are not only unnecessary but make your life very difficult, such as worry.
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So most people live with what I call a cluttered mind.
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A cluttered mind means
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they are completely unaware that there's a continuous stream of mental commentary
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that it goes and wherever they meet somebody and immediately certain judgments form
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and everything they feel they need to immediately adopt a position
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towards it immediately i'm against it i just i I like that.
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So immediately adapt a mental position and being identified with one's mental position, which is a thought.
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So if you discover within yourself that a lot of the time you are in a state of lack, of insufficiency, of not enough,
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and you feel that the answer to the remedy is to be active in this world
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and achieve and do as much as possible, then you'll probably find that ultimately that is not the answer to your state of lack.
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In order to transcend, to go beyond your state of lack, of neediness, of not enough,
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spiritual practice and spiritual realization is necessary.
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Focus on the realization of being.
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It's only there that you can go beyond that state of Blackridge's ego,
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go within and discover who or what you are beyond the person.
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Thank you.
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Deze spreekles op niveau C1 is gebaseerd op de video “How to Calm the Voice Inside”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: negative, happen, thinking, discover, activity. Deze video bevat 138 zinnen en 1806 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 14:38. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 123 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. 87% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| correlation zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˌkɔɹ.əˈleɪ.ʃən/ | correlatie |
| awaken werkwoord | /əˈweɪkən/ | wekken, wakker maken |
| indulge werkwoord | /ɪnˈdʌld͡ʒ/ | toegeven, zwichten (voor de verleiding) |
| fearful bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈfɪəfəl/ | angstig, bang |
| continuously bijwoord | /kənˈtɪnjuəsli/ | continu |
| clutter zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈklʌtɚ/ | rommel, rotzooi |
| unhappiness zelfstandig naamwoord | ongelukkigheid | |
| dwell werkwoord | /dwɛl/ | rondhangen, verblijven |
| realization zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˌɹɪə.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/ | besef, bewustwording |
| distinguish werkwoord | /dɪˈstɪŋ.ɡwɪʃ/ | onderscheiden |
| destructive bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /dɪˈstɹʌktɪv/ | destructief, destructieve |
| sunset zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈsʌnˌsɛt/ | zonsondergang |
| observe werkwoord | /əbˈzɜːv/ | respecteren, in acht nemen |
| abolish werkwoord | /əˈbɑl.ɪʃ/ | afschaffen, opheffen |
| dysfunctional bijvoeglijk naamwoord | disfunctioneel |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| talk out werkwoord | uitpraten | |
| wake up werkwoord | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | wakker worden, ontwaken |
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | is actually generated · are considered · are not considered |
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | has happened · I've had |
| Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding | correlation which is · position, which is |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 24 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, didn't, don't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: correlation /ˌkɔɹ.əˈleɪ.ʃən/, realization /ˌɹɪə.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, distinguish /dɪˈstɪŋ.ɡwɪʃ/, abolish /əˈbɑl.ɪʃ/, insufficiency /ɪnsəˈfɪʃənsi/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: correlation /ˌkɔɹ.əˈleɪ.ʃən/, predominant /pɹɪˈdɒmɪnənt/, totality /toʊˈtælɪti/, continuously /kənˈtɪnjuəsli/, repetitive /ɹɪˈpɛtɪtɪv/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: indulge /ɪnˈdʌld͡ʒ/, repetitive /ɹɪˈpɛtɪtɪv/, destructive /dɪˈstɹʌktɪv/, observe /əbˈzɜːv/, transcend /tɹæn(t)ˈsɛnd/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: totality /toʊˈtælɪti/, agitate /ˈæ.d͡ʒɪ.teɪt/, transcend /tɹæn(t)ˈsɛnd/, gradual /ˈɡɹæd͡ʒuəl/, adapt /əˈdæpt/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: distinguish /dɪˈstɪŋ.ɡwɪʃ/, existent /ɪɡˈzɪst(ə)nt/, gradual /ˈɡɹæd͡ʒuəl/
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 correlation, awaken, indulge.
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.