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Hello friends.
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Today we are going to learn English with comprehensible input.
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Now if you don't know, if you don't already know, comprehensible input is where a native speaker, a native speaker like me,
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English is my native language, a native speaker speaks slowly and uses photos,
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videos, drawings so that you can understand what I am saying.
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So today we are going to have fun.
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We're going to have fun and learn English.
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And I am going to tell to tell you three things.
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Three things that are very, very annoying.
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They are annoying.
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Okay?
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What does annoying mean?
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Well, Mosquitoes are annoying.
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Ow!
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Get out of here! So annoying.
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Mosquitoes are annoying.
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When you are on an airplane and there is a baby crying, that's annoying.
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Waaaaaah!
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Shut up that baby!
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Shut that baby up!
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It's annoying me!
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Okay, that's a little mean.
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But babies crying on airplanes, that's annoying.
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So, today I'm going to tell you three things, three weird things that I find really, really annoying.
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Well, before I tell you the three super annoying things, let me tell you, my name is Kyle.
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And here on my channel, Pensando Inglés, for over four years,
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I have been making content like this to help English learners like you to learn and understand my native language.
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So if you need more content like this in your life,
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give the video a like and subscribe because I bring you new content like this every week.
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And on my channel, there are already hundreds, hundreds of videos with hours and hours of comprehensible English.
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So, subscribe to the channel if you haven't already.
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Alright, let's talk about some annoying things.
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So, first we will talk about something that annoys me and maybe you never, never thought about it.
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It's a weird thing.
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And, in fact, I just thought about it yesterday when I saw my wife.
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I saw my wife doing this.
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Let me show you what my wife did yesterday that annoyed me so much.
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Okay guys, now maybe you could not tell in
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that video what the annoying thing is but let me show you
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and explain it to you it really annoys me
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when people put on their shoes like this they smash the back down I'll try
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and find you a picture a better picture they smash the back down
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and just stick their foot on like that because they are too lazy.
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Too lazy to put their shoe on the right way.
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They're too lazy to put their shoe on the right way
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so they just take their big stinky foot and smash and smash it down.
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They smash it down.
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I don't like that.
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I think that that is annoying and I'll share a little story that really annoyed me when I was a teenager.
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When I was a teenager I saved up my money by doing jobs like cutting grass and things like that.
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I saved up my money and I bought some nice shoes.
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Some Michael Jordan shoes like this.
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I bought some Michael Jordan shoes like that
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and my dad he took his big stinky foot and he smashed the back of and used my shoes.
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He did not ask me, hey Kyle can I use your shoes?
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No, he just took his big stinky foot and smashed the back of my Michael Jordan shoes.
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How disrespectful and how annoying.
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Okay, the next, the next thing that really annoys me, the next dumb thing that really annoys me,
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people who do not close close their mouths.
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People who walk around or they just sit down and keep their mouths like this. That annoys me.
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I think that that is so annoying.
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And when I see it, it makes me furious, angry.
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It makes me mad.
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And in the video that I made about great insults in English, You might call these people mouth breathers.
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Wow, guys, a bird just flew right by my head.
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I hope that was caught on camera.
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That was pretty cool.
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Mouth breathers. So annoying.
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And, guys, this is a weird one.
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And what made me think about this is that I saw an advertisement on TV.
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Okay?
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An advertisement.
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You know what an advertisement is.
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It's a commercial, it's a small little video of a company trying to sell you something.
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But there was a comedian, A comedian.
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Now guys I use the
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air quotes to say comedian because to me this person is not funny at all
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and I really kind of want to punch this guy.
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Punch him.
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I don't know why.
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Do you guys ever see somebody famous and just want to punch them?
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All right guys tell me in the comments who is the one famous person that you would like to punch.
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Please tell me guys.
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I can't wait to read your comments.
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So anyway, the famous person that I would punch is this guy.
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This guy's name is Pete Davidson.
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He's a comedian, but he's not funny at all.
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Maybe you're a Pete Davidson fan.
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I don't know, but something about this guy annoys me so much.
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So really, he could be somebody on my list of things that annoy me.
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This guy That annoys me.
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But what he was doing in the commercial was leaving his mouth open when he wasn't talking.
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And it annoys me so much for some weird reason like, close your mouth.
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Why is your mouth open?
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Imagine I'm sitting here telling you guys about English,
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but every time that I stop talking I just leave my mouth open like this.
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You guys would be giving me comments like, close your mouth, that's annoying.
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So that's what he was doing in the commercial.
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He was talking for a minute and then leaving his mouth open and it annoyed me so much.
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And it reminded me why I don't like to watch TV.
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Anyway, that's my second really annoying thing.
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When people don't close their mouths when they're not talking.
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That's annoying.
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Okay guys, now for the third and last.
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Third and last thing that really annoys me.
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And guys, I saved this one for last because I think that it is the worst.
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It is the worst one.
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Well, maybe.
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Pete Davidson with his open mouth is pretty bad too.
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So, what is the third thing that really annoys me?
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Well, it is when middle-aged men, middle-aged men, sneeze.
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Achoo!
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Achoo!
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Okay, hold on, guys.
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Let me explain.
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Let me explain a couple of things first, okay?
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First, what does middle-aged mean?
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Middle-aged is somebody that is in between 40 and 60 years old.
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Okay?
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In between 40 and 60 years old, we call middle-aged.
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All right?
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Now, let me talk about the sneezing part.
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There's a lot of reasons people might sneeze, right?
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Maybe they're sick.
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Oh, I don't feel good.
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I'm sick.
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I have a cold.
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Okay?
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When you're sick, sometimes you sneeze.
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Maybe they are allergic to cats like I am.
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I'm allergic to cats.
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If I touch a cat and then touch my face, I will start to achoo, achoo, achoo.
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I'll start to sneeze.
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Okay, so sneezing is not annoying.
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It's natural.
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It's part of life.
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Everybody sneezes.
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But middle-aged men, men between the age of 40 and 60, when they sneeze, it makes me mad, guys.
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It makes me mad, okay?
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A normal person sneezes.
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When I sneeze or you sneeze, it's like this.
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Achoo!
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Achoo!
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Oh, sorry, guys.
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Achoo!
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Right?
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It sounds like that.
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Now, guys, there's some older men, middle-aged men between 40 and 60 years old that I work with.
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And when these guys sneeze, it's like this.
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Why?
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Why?
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There is no reason to sneeze like this.
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Guys, I promise they do it like that.
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It's almost like their wives, their wives do not give them any attention at home.
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So now they want to come to work and get attention or something.
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I don't know.
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But that's how they sneeze.
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And that makes me almost as mad as Pete Davidson's face does.
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Okay?
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An old man sneezing like this is almost as bad as Pete Davidson's face that I want to punch.
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Okay?
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So, guys, if you sneeze like a middle-aged man, please calm down, okay?
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Please don't do that anymore because it is so annoying.
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And if you are a middle-aged man and you sneeze like that, tell me in the comments below why.
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Why do you do that?
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I am 33 years old.
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So in seven years, seven years, I will be 40 and I will be middle-aged.
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I really hope that on my 40th birthday I don't start to sneeze like this.
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Achoo!
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I really hope not.

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Deze spreekles op niveau B1 is gebaseerd op de video “Improve Your English Listening with Comprehensible Input”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: annoying, sneeze, mouth, annoy, aged. Deze video bevat 170 zinnen en 1458 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 11:23. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 128 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. 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:

WoordUitspraakBetekenis
annoy werkwoord/əˈnoɪ̯/ergeren, vervelen
sneeze werkwoord/sniːz/niezen
achoo/əˈt͡ʃuː/hatsjoe, hatsjie
shoe zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈʃu/schoen
smash werkwoord/smæʃ/verpletteren, kapotslaan
punch zelfstandig naamwoord/pʌnt͡ʃ/stomp
comedian zelfstandig naamwoord/kəˈmiː.di.ən/komiek, komediant
comprehensible bijvoeglijk naamwoord/kɒmpɹəˈhɛnsɪbəl/begrijpelijk
stinky bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ˈstɪŋki/stinkend
advertisement zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈædvɚˌtaɪzmənt/reclame, advertentie
lazy bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ˈleɪ̯zi(ː)/lui, werkschuw
allergic bijvoeglijk naamwoord/əˈlɝ.d͡ʒɪk/allergisch
airplane zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈɛɹˌpleɪ̯n/vliegtuig
subscribe werkwoord/səbˈskɹaɪb/abonneren
teenager zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈtiːnˌeɪ̯d͡ʒə/tiener, adolescent

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

WoordUitspraakBetekenis
calm down werkwoordbedaren
shut up/ʃʌt ʌp/hou je kop, kop dicht
sit down werkwoordgaan zitten

Zinnen om te herhalen

Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:

  • Alright, let's talk about some annoying things.
  • I can't wait to read your comments.
  • Why is your mouth open?
  • Anyway, that's my second really annoying thing.
  • Why do you do that?

Grammatica in deze video

De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:

StructuurIn de video
Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of dingpeople who do · People who walk
Past continuous was/were + -ing — iets dat op een moment in het verleden bezig waswas doing · was talking
Mogelijkheid met “might / may” might/may + werkwoord — iets is mogelijk maar niet zekermight call · might sneeze
Overtreffende trap the -est / the most … — het hoogste of laagste van een groepthe worst

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 27 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals don't, I'm, I'll. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

  • De klanken “sh” en “zh”: shoe /ˈʃu/, smash /smæʃ/
  • Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: comedian /kəˈmiː.di.ən/, comprehensible /kɒmpɹəˈhɛnsɪbəl/, advertisement /ˈædvɚˌtaɪzmənt/, disrespectful /dɪs.ɹɪˈspɛkt.fəl/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

  • Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: sneeze /sniːz/, subscribe /səbˈskɹaɪb/
  • /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: smash /smæʃ/, advertisement /ˈædvɚˌtaɪzmənt/

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 annoy, sneeze, achoo.

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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