Shadowing Practice: How to Start a Speech That Makes People Whisper ‘Damn, that’s good.’ - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Obama does something really smart here.
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Most presenters lose the room in the first 10 seconds.
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Not because they're bad, but because they play it safe.
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They start with their name,
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role and a bunch of boring context.
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Obama doesn't.
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starts with surprise, something unexpected.
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And you can do the same.
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In this video I'll show you 5 powerful ways to start your next speech.
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Let's start with the first one.
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Check out these two openings and see if you can spot what they have in common.
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How do you explain when others are able to achieve things that seem to defy all of the assumptions?
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They both start with a question and questions are powerful
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because the moment you ask one your audience engages Even
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if they don't answer it out loud their brain instantly starts searching for an answer
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and in that moment You have their full attention.
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All right on to the second one.
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This is the one that I use the most in my corporate career Sadly,
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in the next 18 minutes when I do our chat,
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four Americans that are alive will be dead through the food that they eat.
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Okay, now I don't want to alarm anybody in this room,
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but it's just come to my attention that the person to your right is a liar.
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They both open with a surprising statement.
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It can be a statistic,
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a fact or a bold claim that challenges what people believe.
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Something that makes your audience go, wait, is that true?
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In that moment of doubt, that's attention.
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Here's how you do it well.
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First, say the statement slowly and own it.
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For example, 400.
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Then you pause.
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The average office desk has 400 times more bacteria than the average toilet seat.
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Then you pause again.
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Let the surprise land before you move on.
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Alright, let's go to the third one.
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This one is simple but insanely powerful.
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I'm going to show you two of the most viewed TED Talks of all time.
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And I want you to spot what they have in common.
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So, I'll start with this.
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A couple of years ago,
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an event planner called me because I was going to do a speaking event.
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And she called and she said,
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I'm really struggling with how to write about you on the little flyer.
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And I thought, well, what's the struggle?
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And she said, well, I saw you speak and I'm going to call you a researcher, I think.
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But I'm afraid if I call you a researcher,
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no one will come because they'll think you're boring and irrelevant.
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It's funny the things you forget.
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I went to see my mother the other day,
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and she told me this story that I'd completely forgotten about,
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how when we were driving together,
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she would pull the car over.
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And by the time she had got out of the car
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and gone round the car to let me out the car I would have already got out the car
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and pretended to have died.
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They both start with a story and stories are powerful because they turn your talk into a movie.
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The moment a story begins people stop analyzing and they start experiencing.
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If you want instant attention, open with the story.
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But here's the key.
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Skip the long background and start right into the moment.
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Where and when does the story take place?
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What are you doing?
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What is going wrong?
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Drop your audience straight into the scene.
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That's how powerful storytelling looks like.
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Alright, let's go to the next one.
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Number four.
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At the start of your talk,
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your audience has one question.
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What's in it for me?
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And the next speaker answers that perfectly.
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And what I want to suggest to you is that many of you are one well-constructed,
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well-delivered talk away from absolute explosion of what it is that you want to do.
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He starts with a big promise.
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A big promise tells your audience what they will get by listening to you.
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Not what you will talk about,
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but what they will gain.
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For example, instead of saying,
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Today I will talk about body language.
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Say, by the end of this talk,
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you'll know how to appear confident in any high pressure situation.
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Now that's a promise worth listening.
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But let's now go to the fifth one.
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This one is, I would say,
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a little bit more advanced,
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but when you do it well, it's magical.
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Watch how these two public speaking world champions start their speeches.
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They both start with a visual action hook.
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Meaning, they don't just say something interesting, they do something interesting.
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Something unexpected.
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Something that looks slightly odd on stage.
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Not slightly, actually very odd on stage.
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And that instantly wakes people up.
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The examples you just saw are powerful.
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And yes, they are big.
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But you don't have to go that far.
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A visual action hook can be much simpler.
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For example, it could be you walking on stage and saying nothing for 5 seconds,
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or you holding up an object without explaining it,
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or you writing a word on a flip chart before speaking.
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Same principle, you do something unexpected that makes people curious.
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That's it.
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Hooks are super important, but they are only the beginning.
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What really matters is whether people understand your ideas.
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In the next video I'll show you how to explain your thinking clearly so people can actually follow and remember it.
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See you there.
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Deze spreekles op niveau C1 is gebaseerd op de video “How to Start a Speech That Makes People Whisper ‘Damn, that’s good.’”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: powerful, audience, moment, attention, example. Deze video bevat 106 zinnen en 914 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 6:05. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 150 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. 89% 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 10 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| researcher zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɹiˌsɝ.t͡ʃɚ/ | onderzoeker |
| bore werkwoord | /boɹ/ | vervelen |
| pause zelfstandig naamwoord | /pɔːz/ | pauze |
| bacterium zelfstandig naamwoord | /bækˈtɪəɹ.ɪəm/ | bacterie |
| planner zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈplænɚ/ | planner |
| presenter zelfstandig naamwoord | /pɹɪˈzɛntə(ɹ)/ | presentator, presentatrice |
| analyze werkwoord | /ˈæn.əˌlaɪz/ | analyseren |
| irrelevant bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ɪˈɹɛləvənt/ | irrelevant |
| liar zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈlaɪ.ɚ/ | leugenaar, leugenaarster |
| assumption zelfstandig naamwoord | /əˈsʌm(p).ʃ(ə)n/ | op zich nemen |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Betekenis |
|---|---|
| check out werkwoord | onderzoeken |
Zinnen om te herhalen
Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:
- Let's start with the first one.
- Something that makes your audience go, wait, is that true?
- Here's how you do it well.
- Alright, let's go to the third one.
- What's in it for me?
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 17 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals don't, I'm, I'll. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
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 researcher, bore, pause.
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.