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I hate the Argentine football team.
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They are the most despicable, time-wasting, cheating, cynical, nasty, that have ever existed.
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The New Zealand rugby union team, possibly the greatest rugby union team of all time, the New Zealand All Blacks,
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have a policy called the No Dickheads Policy.
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And that works like this.
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If they think you're a dickhead, regardless of your talent, you will never ever put on the all-black shirt and play for the all-blacks.
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You will get kicked out.
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Whereas Argentina have a policy called the all-dickhead policy, which is the only way you get to play for Argentina is if you're a massive bellend.
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So you just have to look at their behavior.
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The cynicism, the nastiness, the kicking, the persistent fouling.
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The moment you touch them, they throw themselves to the ground like they've actually just been shot.
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The moment that you touch Messi, there's about 10 of them that just come flooding around and shouting and screaming.
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I don't know, like he's some just disabled child who's in a wheelchair
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and you've just kicked him into a canal and everybody's had a meltdown like suddenly you're the bad guy.
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Instead of him just being a socially awkward, inept dwarf who's brilliant at football and that's about it, and yet you're not allowed to challenge him.
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This is what these people are.
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And for those of you thinking it's sour grapes, yeah, possibly it's sour grapes, but I don't care.
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It's my show.
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And this is more important than this, and I'll tell you why.
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I'm half South American, Venezuelan, everyone can drink, right?
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I grew up, I spent a lot of time in South America and Venezuela.
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And I love football.
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I've always loved football since before it was cool, since I was eight years old, 1990.
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And I used to watch football in South America, in Venezuela.
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And in Venezuela, we've got a rubbish football team, but they beat, they're a baseball nation.
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And by the way, they beat America, the United States of baseball in a series of three.
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So they're great at their own sport.
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Obviously, it's not a real sport.
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No one, I mean, it's baseball, come on.
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Anyway, but they like it, fair play, whatever.
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But when the World Cup's on and there's a South American team playing, I'm talking about, I don't know, Brazil, Colombia, Bolivia, Peru.
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Everybody will sit down and watch the game and they'll cheer on the South American teams.
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They will always do that.
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They'll always cheer them on.
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The only one they won't cheer on are, that's right, the Argentines.
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Why is that?
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Because everybody hates them.
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You know how everybody hates them because of the nickname that they're given.
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You know what we call the Argentines in South America?
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The English of South America.
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That's how you know they're hated.
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They are the worst.
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They are the worst team.
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The thing that makes it so egregious is their team is filled with incredibly talented footballers.
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They don't have to behave the way that they do, but they behave the way that they do because they're dks.
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That's why they behave like that.
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They don't have to.
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They don't need to do that in order to win.
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They do that because that's who they are.
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There's a very famous joke in Venezuela which talks about the arrogance of the Argentine, and it goes like this.
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An Argentine man goes to the bar and he's drunk.
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And he gets absolutely plastered and he meets a guy at a bar
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and he's obviously he's arrogant like most RG's are and he puts his arm around him and he goes, right, you're going to come home with me.
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I have the best house in the whole town.
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I have the most beautiful wife.
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You are going to see the best.
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Only the best.
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So he takes his bloke back, not in a sexual way, get your head out of the gutter.
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And he talks him round.
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He takes him to the living he goes you see the sofa see
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that sofa the best leather the softest level feel the lever i so soft
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so beautiful takes him to the kitchen he goes you see this work surfaces the marble it is pink marble
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taken from italy it is used before in the roman temples
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but it has been retaken
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and it is now in my kitchen it's a beautiful marble he takes him to the bedroom
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and his wife is there getting absolutely pounded by another man in front of them
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and the guy's looking around looks at the argentine the argentine
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points at the man shagging his wife looks at the guy
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and goes you see that man over there that is me and
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that is the argentine mentality my friends a terrible country filled
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with terrible people who i'm just gonna say it a nation of cheats maradona right the way through every time they cheat,
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lie, in order to get what they want.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau B2 is gebaseerd op de video “I Hate the Argentine Football Team”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: argentine, football, goes, America, Venezuela. Deze video bevat 72 zinnen en 841 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 5:12. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 162 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. 84% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| argentine zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɑː(ɹ).d͡ʒənˌtiːn/ | zilvervis, zilversmelt |
| marble zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈmɑɹ.bəl/ | marmer |
| behave werkwoord | /bɪˈheɪv/ | zich gedragen |
| cheat werkwoord | /ˈt͡ʃiːt/ | valsspelen, bedriegen |
| grape zelfstandig naamwoord | /ɡɹeɪp/ | druif, wijndruif |
| sofa zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈsoʊ̯fə/ | bank, zetel |
| cynicism zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈsɪn.ɪˌsɪzəm/ | cynisme |
| despicable bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /dɪˈspɪkəbəl/ | verachtelijk, verfoeilijk |
| egregious bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ɪˈɡɹiː.d͡ʒəs/ | flagrant, ongehoord |
| retake werkwoord | /ɹiːˈteɪk/ | hernemen |
| disable werkwoord | /dɪsˈeɪbəl/ | onmogelijk maken |
| meltdown zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈmɛltˌdaʊn/ | kernsmelting |
| arrogance zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈæɹ.ə.ɡəns/ | arrogantie, aanmatiging |
| cynical bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈsɪnɪkəl/ | cynisch |
| lever zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈliː.və/ | hefboom |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Betekenis |
|---|---|
| grow up werkwoord | opgroeien |
| kick out werkwoord | eruit trappen |
| sit down werkwoord | gaan zitten |
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | have ever existed · they've actually just been shot · you've just kicked |
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | been shot · is filled |
| Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding | policy, which is · people who i |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 28 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals don't, they're, you're. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: rubbish /ˈɹʌbɪʃ/, socially /ˈsoʊʃəli/, shout /ʃaʊt/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: cynicism /ˈsɪn.ɪˌsɪzəm/, despicable /dɪˈspɪkəbəl/, mentality /mɛnˈtæləti/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: plaster /ˈplæstɚ/, arrogance /ˈæɹ.ə.ɡəns/, arrogant /ˈæɹəɡənt/, mentality /mɛnˈtæləti/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: grape /ɡɹeɪp/, egregious /ɪˈɡɹiː.d͡ʒəs/, arrogance /ˈæɹ.ə.ɡəns/, arrogant /ˈæɹəɡənt/
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 argentine, marble, behave.
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