Shadowing Practice: How to Get Rid of Your Accent - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Today you're going to learn about how to sound like a native speaker and get rid of your accent.
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But I have to make this remark first.
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It's actually impossible to get rid of your accent completely,
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as a native speaker will always be able to tell the difference.
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But you can do your best in order to sound as native as possible.
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I first got interested in English as a teenager,
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and at that point of my life I was actively listening to Hollywood and Dad.
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And at some point I just went on the internet,
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looked up their songs, the lyrics and the translation to that.
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And I also recommend doing that
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because this way you can learn a lot of swear words
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and also a lot of real colloquial vocabulary that you normally do not find in the textbooks.
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Right, but basically just sing along, right?
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That's the first tip.
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It sounds easy, but you will see how quickly you might get out of breath.
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And that doesn't only have something to do with the fact
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that you're not really a singer maybe you're not right
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but also with the fact that you're singing in in a foreign language right
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and when you speak a foreign language the times
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when you have to pause when you have to inhale
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or exhale they're different right compared to your native language
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so um if you don't listen to music
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that has a lot of lyrics in it or
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that is rather slow right find i actually recommend you to explore
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and like find something that is more energetic
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because it will make you keep up with the tempo and it can help you with your fluency as well.
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This can sound very trivial to many people but these many people also tend to ignore it.
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I recommend focusing on pronunciation from the very beginning of your learning journey
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because this way you can ensure that you don't have to at some point,
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right, you don't have to go back and relearn it or learn it again or start learning it.
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I know if you're a you might think something like well
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but I have to speak well right I have to focus
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on my grammar I have to focus on my vocabulary because
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and I understand that right you want to be understood you want to understand the other person speaking
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but at the same time
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if you want the other person to understand you just as
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well as you understand them you should maybe pay attention to your pronunciation because sometimes it does matter a lot, right?
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And now what is your pronunciation?
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Your pronunciation is how your mouth organs work, right?
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And now depending on what your native language is,
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they will work differently compared to the language you're learning.
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Now if I manage to convince you to improve your pronunciation,
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the first thing I recommend you to do is to focus on the articulation of native speakers.
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Whenever watching a video on YouTube,
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try to pay attention to how a native speaker is actually speaking,
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and by that I mean how they articulate Because it is exactly Their tongue positioning.
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It is exactly their lip positioning.
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It is exactly how wide you open your mouth or something What creates an accent?
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Or helps you to get rid of it,
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right now depending on what your native language is
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you will see that it might be rather easier
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or rather more difficult for you to actually imitate what the other person is saying
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or imitate how the other person is speaking
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because our mouth organs are actually built differently i mean differently compared to the
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speakers of a foreign language
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um and now mouth organs usually consist of muscles
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and you can train your muscles first by imitating and then by actually actually practicing
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the way you can practice is also
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that you can find some tongue twisters right so
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if you think your accent is actually okay and or there are just a couple of sounds that you can
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you want to focus on, right?
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You can always find a tongue twister for that and just practice it.
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Now that you know that accent training depends a lot on how well trained your mouth organs are,
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you actually have to train them.
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You should also know that in the beginning it will not always be easy.
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If you're actually starting to practice your pronunciation,
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to practice accent training, you might notice that your mouth organs actually hurt, right?
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That your vocal cords are getting tired, that your jaw hurts.
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Why?
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Because you've been speaking your native language for your whole life, right?
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You are used to that.
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Your mouth organs are used to that.
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And now you're doing something new.
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And this is stressful for your body.
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But none of this helps as much as shadowing,
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because shadowing focuses specifically on stress patterns,
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on intonation, on the rhythm,
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as you mimic the speaker in real time, right?
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And once you start doing that,
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you will see how the speaker's voice either rises or falls, right?
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How the speaker emphasizes words to convey some meaning or maybe just because it is like that in the language, right?
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So it is quite complicated to do,
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not gonna lie, but this technique is actually actively used when learning or practicing interpreting,
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but you can also apply it in language learning.
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So if you want to learn more about what it actually is and how to do it properly,
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you can watch my next video.
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Because I swear that I could actually take a little more to work on the Monday night.
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Maybe before it it came up.
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Maybe people never scored!
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau C1 is gebaseerd op de video “How to Get Rid of Your Accent”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: language, native, speaker, mouth, pronunciation. Deze video bevat 89 zinnen en 962 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 5:34. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 173 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| pronunciation zelfstandig naamwoord | /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/ | uitspraak |
| imitate werkwoord | /ˈɪmɪteɪt/ | nabootsen, imiteren |
| vocabulary zelfstandig naamwoord | /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/ | woordenschat, vocabulaire |
| colloquial bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /kəˈloʊ.kwi.əl/ | informeel, spreektalig |
| exhale werkwoord | /ˌɛksˈheɪ̯l/ | uitademen |
| fluency zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈfluːənsi/ | vlotheid |
| inhale werkwoord | /ɪnˈheɪl/ | inademen |
| intonation zelfstandig naamwoord | /ɪntəˈneɪʃən/ | intonatie, zinsmelodie |
| articulate werkwoord | /ɑːɹˈtɪk.jə.leɪt/ | uitleggen |
| emphasize werkwoord | /ˈɛm.fə.saɪz/ | benadrukken, beklemtonen |
| textbook zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈtɛkst.bʊk/ | studieboek, handboek |
| interpret werkwoord | /ɪnˈtɜː.pɹɪt/ | interpreteren |
| convey werkwoord | /kənˈveɪ/ | overdragen |
| stressful bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈstɹɛsfəl/ | stressvol |
| consist zelfstandig naamwoord | /kənˈsɪst/ | samenstelling |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| go back werkwoord | teruggaan | |
| look up werkwoord | /ˌlʊk ˈʌp/ | opkijken |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 15 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals you're, don't, doesn't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, articulation /ɑɹˌtɪk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/, intonation /ɪntəˈneɪʃən/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, articulation /ɑɹˌtɪk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/, colloquial /kəˈloʊ.kwi.əl/, intonation /ɪntəˈneɪʃən/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: emphasize /ˈɛm.fə.saɪz/, cord /ˈkoɹd/, pause /pɔːz/
- /w/ — met ronde lippen: twister /ˈtwɪstəɹ/, colloquial /kəˈloʊ.kwi.əl/
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 pronunciation, imitate, vocabulary.
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.