Shadowing Practice: How To Keep a Skyscraper From Falling Over - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Why is the 600 -ton steel ball hanging from the ceiling in Taipei 101, Taiwan's tallest building?
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It's because Taiwan sits right on the ring of fire, home of 90 % of the world's earthquakes.
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So when you build one of the tallest buildings on Earth here, shaking isn't a rare emergency, it's a weekly occurrence.
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Which is why the solution wasn't to fight the movement, it was to work with it.
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Because normally if you were to add a fixed weight to the top of something, you would just increase its instability, making it way more top -heavy.
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It's suspended, allowing essentially 100 elephants to swing freely,
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perfectly counteracting the natural sway of the building to keep it in place in hurricanes and earthquakes.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les

Deze video bevat 7 zinnen en 120 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 0:41. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 177 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek.

Belangrijke woorden in deze video

12 woorden uit de video die het leren waard zijn, met uitspraak en betekenis:

WoordUitspraakBetekenis
earthquake zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈɝθkweɪk/aardbeving, aardschok
essentially bijwoord/ɪˈsɛnʃəli/essentieel
swing werkwoord/ˈswɪŋ/zwaaien, zwenken
shake werkwoord/ˈʃeɪk/schudden
ceiling zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈsilɪŋ/plafond, zoldering
hurricane zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈhʌɹɪkeɪn/orkaan
elephant zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈɛlɪfənt/olifant, elpendier
occurrence zelfstandig naamwoord/əˈkɜɹ.əns/voorval
instability zelfstandig naamwoord/ɪnstəˈbɪlɪti/instabiliteit
suspend werkwoord/səsˈpɛnd/schorsen
sway werkwoord/ˈsweɪ̯/zwaaien
counteract werkwoord/ˈkaʊntəɹˌækt/tegengaan

Uitspraak om op te letten

  • De klanken “sh” en “zh”: essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, shake /ˈʃeɪk/
  • Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, instability /ɪnstəˈbɪlɪti/

Zo oefen je met deze video

  1. Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
  2. Begin op 0,75× snelheid, spreek zin voor zin na en ga terug naar normale snelheid zodra het makkelijk gaat.
  3. Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als earthquake, essentially, swing.

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.

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