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What is up everybody?
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My name is Kent C.
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Dodds, and this is Become an Epic Product Engineer podcast.
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For the last 10 plus years, I've been teaching software developers how to build quality user experiences, primarily on the web.
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And with the changing landscape of AI coding assistance, I am excited to introduce this new podcast series to help you learn the durable skills
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that you can still use
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and will continue to be able to use even as AI kind of takes over implementation from what we've typically been doing.
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So yeah, software is changing.
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AI is accelerating what was already true for even like 50 years ago.
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One of the most valuable skills that you could have as a software developer is product engineering,
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understanding users, their problems, and shipping what actually solves those user problems.
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So yeah, sure, like quality, craft, review still matters, but agents are getting better at those things.
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And so rapidly, the unique thing that we used to be able to provide,
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which was coding, is sort of being eaten and taken over by AI.
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And frankly, I love that.
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I think it's awesome that we can spend more of our time really understanding the problem
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and targeting what exactly our users actually need.
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I like to think of it as the fact that, or the idea, the metaphor that we are all archers.
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We've got this quiver of arrows and we've gotten really, really good at aiming at a target and letting go of the arrow,
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letting it fly and hitting the target despite wind and other concerns.
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But these arrows have been improving at a rapid pace with AI.
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And so now they're less like arrows and more like homing beacons.
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And yes, they don't always hit the target exactly right.
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And you do have to be skilled at using these arrows.
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But I am not very confident in my ability to predict
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the future of what the ceiling is for these AI agents and how far or fast we're going to get there.
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And so I think let's look at what the durable skill is.
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And I think that is understanding what we are to build.
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We've got so many targets that we could aim these arrows at.
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And in fact, with as good as these arrows have gotten, we can hit other targets that we never even noticed before,
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because now we just have these capabilities that we didn't really have before.
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Lots of things have changed.
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And so knowing what to build, that is what we're going to be talking about in this podcast series.
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So the idea here is
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that I want to learn out loud with the people who blend their technical depth and expertise with product judgment.
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So these will be people that you have definitely heard about and people that you haven't heard about.
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Founders, researchers, engineers, product managers who've kind of lived on both sides of things.
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And we've already got, at the time I'm recording this, we've already got like a ton of episodes that I'm excited for you to dive into.
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So yeah, I know like a lot of you engineers are worried about, oh man, like does AI mean that I'm just going to become a product manager now?
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No, I actually don't think that that is the case.
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Product managers are super valuable, but developers and their engineering experience and expertise is still super valuable.
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And there is a distinction between what a product manager does and what a product engineer does.
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But the fact is that a traditional software development
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or software developer who's been doing this for a long time
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does need to kind of adopt some of the mindset and the ideas that we typically associate with product manager.
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Empathy for the user, developing clarity around a problem space so we can decide what solution to implement.
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And then even identifying whether the problem is the right problem versus a beautifully wrong solution.
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And I think that a lot of us can relate to that kind of thing.
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So the through line here is that the mission here is I want to teach you durable skills.
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I want to give you product thinking, not just code.
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I want you to fall in love with the problem and not your solution.
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as exciting as it is to develop really awesome solutions.
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The real goal here is to get really good at understanding
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that problem so that you can find a solution
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that does a really good job solving that problem and maybe many other problems.
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So we'll talk about like the problem tree and taking a step back and like, what is this problem actually?
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So each episode, you're going to have a specific thing that you can do.
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I call this the homework.
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And the goal of that is just to get you actually doing stuff.
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Now, you can definitely watch the episode and or listen to the episode
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and learn a lot and just kind of have it,
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you know, you can kind of marinate in that wisdom that these guests are sharing with us and from their experience.
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But I think that actually taking action is where you're going to get a lot of value out of this.
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And so at the end of every episode, I hope that you take the opportunity to jot down the homework and look for an opportunity to implement that,
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whether that be read this book or talk to this person or whatever.
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So I just want to kind of give you a sense for what you can expect here.
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So a couple of specific episodes that already exist in the podcast series that I want to call out.
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So Dax Rad actually was one of the people who inspired
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me to start this podcast series in the first place
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because he just comes out with these really great ideas of what it means to be a product engineer
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and to build an actual product.
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So he was the first episode and you definitely want to listen to that.
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Now in that episode, he talks about how being faster at building the wrong thing is not good.
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And actually intentionally adding restraint, which has now been removed because implementation is so fast,
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intentionally adding that restraint will help you when like you're just actively putting features in front of users' faces and stuff.
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We talk about the onboarding experience and how to avoid the kitchen sink clutter of like a command K sort of experience.
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He's building a dev tool.
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So that one is a really great episode.
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Wayne Allen, also a really awesome episode.
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He has some classical training where he's really studied up on what product engineering actually is.
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And so we talk about building the right thing before we build the thing right, validate before we fall in love with the idea, that sort of thing.
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We've talked about the mom test.
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It's really good.
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You want to listen to that one for sure.
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And Will's episode is also fantastic.
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He's got some actual formal training in this area with instructional or with industrial design.
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And there are a lot of really interesting crossovers with that.
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So don't miss that episode.
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Don Norman, the author of The Design of Everyday Things, along with many other books, he's 90 years old.
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And he comes on the podcast to talk about his experience over the history.
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And he talks about what that user error actually just means that the design and the system has a problem.
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and why you really want to watch real people using your software.
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And Grady Booch, actually, at the time I'm recording this episode or this intro for you, Grady Booch's episode has not actually been published.
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So you can look forward to that episode.
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He talks a lot about judgment, architecture, what doesn't get automated, what should get automated, that sort of thing.
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He actually, that episode happened because I posted something to EpicProduct.Engineer titled The Last Software Engineer,
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which is just a metaphor that I use to talk about product engineering and why it's so important.
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But he took issue with that title and some of the things that I shared in that post.
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And so we have a really nice conversation about the way that he sees the future.
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It's really interesting.
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Alex Hillman, Sales Safari, he's got a really great mind for
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understanding how to engineer desire before you build out a spec
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and how to help people feel anticipated rather than tricked as they're using your software really really good dylan also fantastic episode.
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He talks about making user pain feel painful for you, integrating directly with support and tightening that user feedback loop.
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Really great episode.
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And Aaron Francis, that episode was really great because he's building Solo,
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a software called Solo and talks about his experience as an indie developer building that for development users.
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So we've got that and way, way more.
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So many awesome episodes that I'm excited for you to experience as you go through this podcast series.
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So you don't necessarily need to go things in order.
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The episodes are not linear in any way.
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So just grab whatever episodes you want to.
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If you want to binge the whole thing, that's probably how I would consume this because every one of these episodes is just fantastic.
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I'm not going to publish an episode that isn't fantastic.
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I also ask you to please subscribe.
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And you can actually go to the website, epicproduct.engineer slash become an Epic Product Engineer podcast,
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all with hyphens, or you just look for it on the internet.
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And you can actually submit your email and your name.
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And I will send you an email every week with a summary of an episode.
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And so if you just want that, like constantly in the back of your mind that you're trying to become an Epic Product Engineer,
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then that is a really great way to do that.
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And also on the site, there are episode summaries and the homework is there.
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There's show notes and transcripts and all of that too.
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But yeah, every week you can look forward to getting a new episode on Wednesday.
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One last thing that I wanna mention too is I'm actually also starting a new series
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that is like a solo companion to this where I am creating a series titled Better with Kent,
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where we're all going to get better with Kent.
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And we're going to talk about durable skills that you can develop on that.
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So go search up Better with Kent on your favorite podcast player.
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This will also be a YouTube series.
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And we're going to talk about how you can make yourself a better,
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more useful and value creating individual as a software developer.
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So with that, I'm going to leave you with your homework.
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This is the homework.
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Your homework is to subscribe to the podcast in whatever your favorite podcast player or whatever, and pick one episode, just one that you're going to listen to.
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And if that episode wins you over, then I invite you to come back again and continue to listen to the rest of the episodes.
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So thank you so much for listening to this episode.
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And I'm looking forward to seeing you throughout all of the episodes of the Become an Epic Product Engineer podcast.
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Thank you so much.
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We'll see you around.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau B2 is gebaseerd op de video “Introducing Become an Epic Product Engineer”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: episode, product, podcast, engineer, user. Deze video bevat 140 zinnen en 1924 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 11:28. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 168 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. 86% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| podcast zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈpɑdˌkæst/ | podcast |
| arrow zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈæɹəʊ/ | pijl |
| homework zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈhoʊmˌwɝk/ | huiswerk, huistaak |
| developer zelfstandig naamwoord | /dɪˈvɛləpɚ/ | ontwikkelaar, ontwerper |
| durable bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈdʊɹəbəl/ | duurzaam |
| automate werkwoord | /ˈɔ.təˌmeɪt/ | automatiseren |
| restraint zelfstandig naamwoord | /ɹɪˈstɹeɪnt/ | beperking, inhouding |
| metaphor zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈmɛt.ə.fɚ/ | metafoor |
| subscribe werkwoord | /səbˈskɹaɪb/ | abonneren |
| implement werkwoord | /ˈɪmpləmənt/ | implementeren, (in de praktijk) toepassen |
| clutter zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈklʌtɚ/ | rommel, rotzooi |
| excite werkwoord | /ɪkˈsaɪt/ | prikkelen, opwinden |
| hyphen zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈhaɪ̯.f(ə̯)n̩/ | afbreekteken, koppelteken |
| marinate werkwoord | /ˈmæɹɪneɪt/ | marineren |
| quiver zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈkwɪvə/ | koker, pijlkoker |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Betekenis |
|---|---|
| look forward to werkwoord | uitkijken naar, zich verheugen op |
| take over werkwoord | overnemen |
| come back werkwoord | terugkomen |
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 continuous have/has been + -ing — iets dat eerder begon en nog bezig is | I've been teaching · have been improving · who's been doing |
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | we've gotten · have gotten · have changed |
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | being eaten · be skilled · be read |
| Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding | people who blend · people who inspired · restraint, which has |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 42 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, we've, we're. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: intentionally /ɪnˈtɛn(t)ʃənəli/, speculation /ˌspɛk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/, publish /ˈpʌblɪʃ/, distinction /dɪˈstɪŋkʃən/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: developer /dɪˈvɛləpɚ/, intentionally /ɪnˈtɛn(t)ʃənəli/, accelerate /ɪkˈsɛl.əˌɹeɪt/, anticipate /ænˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt/, beautifully /ˈbju.tɪ.fə.li/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: subscribe /səbˈskɹaɪb/, expertise /ˌɛkspɜːˈtiːz/, onboard /ɒnˈbɔːd/, binge /bɪnd͡ʒ/, blend /blɛnd/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: podcast /ˈpɑdˌkæst/, arrow /ˈæɹəʊ/, marinate /ˈmæɹɪneɪt/, validate /ˈvæl.ɪ.deɪt/, transcript /ˈtɹæn.skɹɪpt/
- /w/ — met ronde lippen: homework /ˈhoʊmˌwɝk/, quiver /ˈkwɪvə/
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 podcast, arrow, homework.
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