Shadowing Practice: How To Effectively Leverage Skip Level 1 1s - Learn English Speaking with Video
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One thing that happens pretty frequently at these tech companies, especially big tech companies, is a skip level one -on -one, which basically means you don't talk to your direct manager, you talk to their manager.
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So you know, someone who's kind of two steps removed.
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So I'm curious, in these skip level one -on -ones, what have you seen as the most effective way to take advantage of that time with this skip level?
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From the perspective of the engineer, I think one of the best uses at the time is
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that you can take it as an opportunity to try to understand the broader strategy of the company
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or the broader strategy of the organization that you're a part of.
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One question that you can try asking at your skip level to try to get
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that is to just ask them what their priorities are, right?
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Ask them like, hey, what are the top three things
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that you're working on as the skip level and person who's responsible for this organization?
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What are the things that you think are going really well for the organization?
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What are the things that are keeping you up because you think that they're not going very well for the organization?
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And I think
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that all of it is meant to help engineers build a better understanding of the strategy around the product
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and the business that they're a part of.
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And so hopefully when it comes time to you making technical choices in your job as an engineer, you'll have a better frame of reference for making those tradeoffs.
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Totally.
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And actually, I think it goes back also to this idea about a nose for impact, right?
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If your skip level manager says, hey, here are my top three or four priorities, and you can't draw a line from the stuff that you're working on to one of those three things, you're probably not working on the right thing.
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So yeah, I'm also curious about how, is there an opportunity or a place in a skip level one -on -one to basically provide a status update and say,
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hey, here are the challenges that I'm facing on my team, or maybe with my own manager, is that appropriate ever in a skip level?
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So I would say there's two things that maybe are a little counterintuitive, but I really encourage with skip level one -on -ones.
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And one is be candid.
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There's no need for you to try to impress your skip level.
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There's honestly not much value in that. If anything, I think the best way to for both people to get
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good value out of the time is for you to give a really honest view
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because one reality for skip level one -on -ones is
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that they operate oftentimes at an altitude where they have blind
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spots you know there are some things about their organization
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that they just don't see because they're not in the day -to -day work right
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and so you as the engineer
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if you're able to you know give concrete examples of interesting things
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that they should be aware of i think that's something
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that they would really value and then the second part of this
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that i would say is um you know be willing to challenge their ideas uh i i can tell you
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that in the skip level conversations
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that i've had where i was a skip level um those
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were actually always the most interesting conversations to me uh when
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when my ideas were challenged and and the reason I say that is because,
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you know, I care a lot about the whole team being bought into what we're doing, right?
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And if I say something that an engineer that I really respect calls BS on, I think there's a pretty good chance that,
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you know, at face value, there are other engineers on the team that would call BS on it as well, right?
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And so like, as the skip level, I want diagnose that.
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I want to get to the root cause of why there's disagreement.
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Maybe it's that I didn't explain my point of view or the company's point of view well enough in a particular situation, but I could also be wrong.
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I think getting a different perspective, an honest perspective, especially from an engineer that I really trust, that's some of the most valuable time that I can spend.
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Totally.
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And I feel like the other aspect is that, you know, the skip level managers probably happen infrequently, but they're not happening on a weekly or bi -weekly basis.
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They might happen once a month or once every quarter.
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And so I imagine that that's super valuable, not only for you as a skip level, but also as an ISEE to get that broader perspective.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I think so.
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You know, it's because it's a relatively rare perspective that you get, you know, it's, there are ways in which I think
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that time can be used in a way that's really effective
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and and it really all just comes down to being forthcoming with each other about what you see
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles is gebaseerd op de video “How To Effectively Leverage Skip Level 1 1s”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: skip, engineer, perspective, organization, manager. Deze video bevat 56 zinnen en 866 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 4:37. De spreker praat snel, ongeveer 187 woorden per minuut, dus reken op verbonden en ingeslikte klanken. 88% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is goed te volgen. 9 van de 56 zinnen zijn vragen, dus het is goede oefening voor vraagintonatie en korte antwoorden.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
11 woorden uit de video die het leren waard zijn, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| skip werkwoord | /skɪp/ | huppelen |
| curious bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈkjʊɹ.i.əs/ | nieuwsgierig |
| priority zelfstandig naamwoord | /pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/ | voorrang, prioriteit |
| encourage werkwoord | /ɪnˈkʌɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/ | bemoedigen, aanmoedigen |
| concrete bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˌkɑnˈkɹit/ | concreet |
| aspect zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈæspɛkt/ | aspect |
| impress werkwoord | /ɪmˈpɹɛs/ | imponeren, indruk maken |
| disagreement zelfstandig naamwoord | /dɪsəˈɡɹiːmənt/ | verschil van mening, meningsverschil |
| candid bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈkæn.dɪd/ | neutraal, objectief |
| counterintuitive bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˌkaʊntəɹɪnˈtuɪtɪv/ | contra-intuïtief |
| diagnose werkwoord | /ˈdaɪ.əɡˌnoʊs/ | diagnosticeren |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Betekenis |
|---|---|
| go back werkwoord | teruggaan |
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 meant · were challenged · being bought |
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | have you seen · i've had |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 19 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals you're, they're, I'm. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: priority /pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/, disagreement /dɪsəˈɡɹiːmənt/, counterintuitive /ˌkaʊntəɹɪnˈtuɪtɪv/, infrequently /ɪnˈfɹiːkwənt.li/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: encourage /ɪnˈkʌɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/, altitude /ˈælt.ɪˌtjuːd/, candid /ˈkæn.dɪd/, counterintuitive /ˌkaʊntəɹɪnˈtuɪtɪv/, oftentimes /ˈɔf.ənˌtaɪmz/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: aspect /ˈæspɛkt/, altitude /ˈælt.ɪˌtjuːd/, candid /ˈkæn.dɪd/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: disagreement /dɪsəˈɡɹiːmənt/, diagnose /ˈdaɪ.əɡˌnoʊs/
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 skip, curious, priority.
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.