Shadowing Practice: Imagine Dragons - Believer (Lyrics) - Learn English Speaking with Video

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First things first, I'ma say all the words inside my head I'm fired up
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and tired of the way that things have been Oh,
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ooh, ooh, ooh The way that things have been Oh,
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ooh, ooh, ooh Second thing,
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second, don't you tell me what you think that I can be I'm the one at the sail,
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I'm the master of my sea,
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oh The master of my sea,
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oh I was broken from a young age,
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taking my soak into the masses Writing my poems for the few that look at me,
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took to me, shook at me,
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feeling me Singing from heartache,
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from the pain, taking my message from the veins Speaking my lesson from the brain,
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seeing the beauty through the Hey,
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you made me a, you made me a believer,
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believer Hey, you break me down,
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you build me up, believer,
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believer Hey, I let the bullets fly,
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I'll let them rain My life,
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my love, my driving came from Hey,
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you made me a, you made me a believer Third,
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believer Third things third, send a prayer to the ones up above All the hate
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that you've heard has turned your spirit to a dove Oh,
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oh, oh, oh Your spirit up above,
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oh, oh, oh, oh I was choking in the crowd,
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building my brain up in the crowd Falling like ashes to the ground,
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hoping my feelings, they would drown But they never did,
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ever lived, heaven and flow inhibited,
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limited Till it broke open and rained down,
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it rained down like Hey,
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you break me up, you break me up,
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believer, believer You break me down,
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you build me up, believer,
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believer Pain, let the borders fly,
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let them rain My life,
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my love, my heart, it came from pain You build me up,
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you build me up, believer,
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believer Last is last by the grace of the fire and the flames You're the face of the future,
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the blood in my veins Oh,
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ooh, the blood in my veins Oh,
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ooh, but they never did,
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ever lived Ebon and flow and inhibited,
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liberated Till it broke open,
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it rained down It rained down like Hey,
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you break me up, you break me up Believer,
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believer Hey, you make me up,
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you build me up, believer,
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believer Hey, I let the bullets fly,
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I let them rain My life,
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my love, my time, it came from Hey,
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you make me up, you make me up, believer, believer

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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les

Deze spreekles op niveau B2 is gebaseerd op de video “Imagine Dragons - Believer”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: believer, break, build, rained, veins. Deze video bevat 50 zinnen en 415 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 3:11. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 131 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. 83% 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 12 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:

WoordUitspraakBetekenis
believer zelfstandig naamwoord/bɪˈlivɚ/gelovige
vein zelfstandig naamwoord/veɪn/ader
inhibit werkwoord/ɪnˈhɪbɪt/remmen
heartache zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈhɑːteɪk/hartzeer
liberate werkwoord/ˈlɪbəˌɹeɪt/bevrijden
soak werkwoord/soʊk/doorweken
dove zelfstandig naamwoord/doʊv/duif
drown werkwoord/dɹaʊn/verdrinken, verzuipen
choke werkwoord/t͡ʃoʊk/verstikken, stikken
sail zelfstandig naamwoord/seɪl/zeil
flame zelfstandig naamwoord/fleɪm/vlam, laai
ash zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈæʃ/as, asse

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 7 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, don't, I'll. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

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. Spreek zin voor zin na op normale snelheid en herhaal elke zin tot je ritme gelijk is aan dat van de spreker.
  3. Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als believer, vein, inhibit.

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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