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KSI is one of the world's most popular YouTubers,
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but yesterday he accidentally exposed the pump and dump crypto scams that he promoted.
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They've been hidden for two years,
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but only came out when KSI logged back into his old Twitter account,
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saying, does this still work?
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Now if you didn't know,
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this is KSI's crypto account where he used to talk about crypto coins he liked.
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But he messed up, because one investigator has been waiting for him to return to the scene of the crime.
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And that person is not me,
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it's Zach XBT, a crypto investigator on Twitter who I'll link below because his work is incredible.
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He's a friend of the show,
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we've collaborated a lot, I just encourage you to go follow him.
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But I was shocked when he said this.
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In before he starts sharing garbage again,
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dumping your tokens on Logan Paul's lapdog is permitted and encouraged.
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Now many people, including myself,
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hadn't seen anything from KSI to this point that seemed shady.
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But Zach had been waiting for this moment.
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He goes on,
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Now, obviously I was stunned by this,
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but looking at the date of when this all happened,
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I realized Zack has been holding onto this piece of evidence,
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waiting for KSI to come back to this account for years.
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He had this tweet in the drafts and KSI logging back in activated the trap card.
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Zach also shared a picture as proof,
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series of transactions from KSI's wallet,
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where starting on March 27th,
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when he sent that tweet,
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KSI started selling XCAD, the same day he tweeted he was part of the huddle game,
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slang for someone who wouldn't sell this crypto coin, right?
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In fact, that wasn't the only time KSI has mentioned this holding stance publicly.
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I'm holding my bags.
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I'm holding my Luna, my XCAD.
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Videos like this are why people genuinely thought KSI was just buying and holding, but he wasn't.
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This time, he sold.
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And he tweeted again on March 30th, 2022.
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Me looking at Zill and XCAD right now.
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And it might look like that means he's excited about this,
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but really he was looking at the sell button,
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because he continued to sell XCAD to his fans who thought he was part of the HODL gang once again.
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And this is what I mean by a pump and dump scam.
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He got his followers excited while selling his own crypto back at the same time.
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In total, over $800,000 was sold by KSI over a few days and these two tweets,
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according to ZachXBT.
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Now, as a quick aside,
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if you're wondering or skeptical of the fact
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that influencer tweets can have any kind of effect on a token price or volume,
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I whipped up a chart for you,
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showing volume of XCAD during the days when KSI tweeted.
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You can see that trading volume spiked millions of dollars on those days,
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which in part were some of his followers putting money in as he sold.
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Today, the price of XCAD has plummeted from $3 to about $1.
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Now, as always, with such large allegations,
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I wanted to be sure to reach out to KSI to give him a chance to explain these large accusations.
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After all, I didn't find this, Zach did.
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So I reached out to KSI over Twitter and he gave me the following statement.
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Hey bro, I mean, I'm still a HODL game, LMAO.
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Sold some profit,
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as well as my own money to put into Luna thinking I would profit more to buy back more XCAD
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and took a major L.
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fully believe in XCAD, the ability to earn from watching content.
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Honestly, you should talk to Redacted.
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He's very excited about this project.
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I never left crypto.
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I've just been watching it from the shadows.
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It's kind of hard to leave when you've invested so many years into it.
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So that's his statement.
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He then shared a personal account screenshot showing that he does have some XCAD still held.
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But while that's an interesting fact and an interesting explanation,
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it doesn't really change the core accusation of whether he pumped and dumped his fans.
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And I thought it was interesting KSI didn't deny the crypto wallet was his or that he made that amount of money.
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He's just telling us, well,
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I'm still hodling some of it,
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just 800,000 of it I sold.
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Now, to be honest, I don't buy this explanation for a second,
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but I kind of was feeling like I had to leave the story there.
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It felt like a one-off scam that I talk about on my new side channel,
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CoffeeZilla Extras, but the story would die there.
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But then I got another message,
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which changed everything from Zach.
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He said, I have one more KSI example with a different coin.
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Turns out on March 20th,
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2021, KSI tweeted this, two NFT coins I'm very bullish on, super and earn.
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Any other NFTs I should look at?
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Now normally when you're bullish on a coin you buy that coin,
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but that's not what KSI did.
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See right after he tweeted that,
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six hours later, he sold a hundred
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seventy four thousand dollars worth of EARN token and then four hours later sells another a hundred seventy four thousand dollars.
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Now if that isn't a textbook pump and dump I don't know what is.
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He tweeted, that's the pump,
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within 24 hours He sells three hundred forty eight thousand dollars.
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That's the dump It couldn't be more clear or so I thought
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because I asked KSI about this
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and that's where things got a bit muddy He says I
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don't really remember the details of every transaction I made these
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were coins I put my own money in thinking they would
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do well I would listen to what people said on Twitter and just follow stuff.
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I invested in doge etc I didn't have malicious intent in trying to scam.
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I was new to crypto
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So I was excited putting money in random things trying to chase the pumps
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and ultimately lost heavily I hope people didn't take advice
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or tweets as gold
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because looking back at my track record I was effing dog I wish I was an evil genius
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that would pump and dump at the right time
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Because then at least people would say
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that I had some wit about me reality is I was just at crypto And that's basically KSI's defense.
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He was dumb.
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He was bad at crypto But is that true?
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Well, he says he put in two million dollars of his own money
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and lost it all in the end He says quote,
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I made zero profit on crypto in the end.
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I lost it all on Luna.
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Look, I haven't seen his accounts Maybe that's true either way even
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if he is bad or dumb with crypto I just it doesn't explain the pump
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and dumps like telling people you're bullish
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and then selling is not explained by I Was new I was dumb
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and I said as much I said I'm just trying to understand why you traded the opposite way
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that you were saying on Twitter and KSI replied this,
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Because I thought I was getting trolled.
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Honestly, every time I tweeted something,
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the opposite would happen on the market.
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So I decided to tweet the opposite of what I was actually doing and still took an L.
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So, just to be clear,
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KSI's story that he's going with is that he thought the market was against him,
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so he publicly said one thing while privately,
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secretly doing the opposite, Which is kind of the definition of a pump
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and dump when you promote that to a big audience.
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You say you're gonna buy to your followers while secretly selling.
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Whether or not it's a successful pump and dump,
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whatever pump and dump, that's what it is.
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Now look, I understand that people are gonna have conflicting ideas of whether this was malicious or not,
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and I think it's gonna entirely depend on whether you think KSI's story makes sense.
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I'm just trying to provide full context,
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while also giving you my opinion on that,
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which is that I don't really buy that he had no clue
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that tweeting one thing would positively affect the price in his favor.
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Meanwhile though, while I was confronting KSI,
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I heard a final response from Zachxbt,
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which I think moved the needle a bit.
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He said, I found another example.
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On May 11th, 2021, KSI Crypto tweeted,
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this is about to explode.
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Many moments later though, he sold $25,000.
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Didn't buy it.
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Which I get it, it's a relatively small amount,
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but it furthers that same pattern of behavior.
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It's just a matter of what you think that behavior was.
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If you ask me,
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I think KSI tried to use his influence to move the market for himself in crypto through a few pump and dumps.
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He may have lost all his money eventually in a Ponzi scheme,
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but that does not make what he did okay.
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In fact, I think it's fair to say that a lot of his followers,
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we saw that he influenced millions of dollars in trading volume,
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went into some coins that are now doing very poorly.
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But ultimately I think the true piece of cosmic irony for KSI here though,
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is that he would have gotten away with all of this,
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no one would have known about any of it,
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if he just hadn't logged back into Twitter for one last spin at the slot machine.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau B2 is gebaseerd op de video “KSI Accidentally Exposes His Crypto Scams”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: Ksi, crypto, pump, dump, Xcad. Deze video bevat 159 zinnen en 1599 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 8:45. De spreker praat snel, ongeveer 183 woorden per minuut, dus reken op verbonden en ingeslikte klanken. Slechts 78% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is pittig.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| tweet zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈtwiːt/ | twiet |
| dump werkwoord | /dʌmp/ | dumpen |
| coin zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈkoɪ̯n/ | munt, muntstuk |
| follower zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈfɒləʊə(ɹ)/ | volger, navolger |
| scam zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈskæm/ | oplichting, deceptie |
| token zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈtoʊkən/ | teken |
| accusation zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˌæk.jʊˈzeɪ.ʃ(ə)n/ | beschuldiging |
| malicious bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /məˈlɪʃəs/ | boos, kwaad |
| investigator zelfstandig naamwoord | /ɪnˈvɛs.tɪˌɡeɪ̯.təː/ | onderzoeker |
| secretly bijwoord | /ˈsiː.kɹɪt.li/ | stiekem |
| wallet zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈwɑl.ət/ | portemonnee, portefeuille |
| huddle werkwoord | /ˈhʌdəl/ | samendrommen |
| influencer zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɪnflu.ənsə(ɹ)/ | beïnvloeder |
| plummet werkwoord | /ˈplʌmət/ | omlaagschieten, tuimelen |
| allegation zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˌæl.ɪˈɡeɪ.ʃən/ | bewering, aantijging |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| come out werkwoord | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | uitkomen |
| mess up werkwoord | verrommelen, in de war brengen |
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 | has been waiting · has been holding · I've just been watching |
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | They've been hidden · we've collaborated · has mentioned |
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | They've been hidden · is permitted · was stunned |
| Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding | someone who wouldn · opposite, Which is |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 39 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, didn't, don't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: bullish /ˈbʊlɪʃ/, accusation /ˌæk.jʊˈzeɪ.ʃ(ə)n/, malicious /məˈlɪʃəs/, allegation /ˌæl.ɪˈɡeɪ.ʃən/, shady /ˈʃeɪdi/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: accusation /ˌæk.jʊˈzeɪ.ʃ(ə)n/, investigator /ɪnˈvɛs.tɪˌɡeɪ̯.təː/, influencer /ˈɪnflu.ənsə(ɹ)/, allegation /ˌæl.ɪˈɡeɪ.ʃən/, collaborate /kəˈlæb.ə.ɹeɪt/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: explode /ɪkˈsploʊd/, expose /ɪkˈspoʊz/, garbage /ˈɡɑɹ.bɪd͡ʒ/, depend /dɪˈpɛnd/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: scam /ˈskæm/, accusation /ˌæk.jʊˈzeɪ.ʃ(ə)n/, allegation /ˌæl.ɪˈɡeɪ.ʃən/, collaborate /kəˈlæb.ə.ɹeɪt/, activate /ˈæktɪˌveɪt/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: investigator /ɪnˈvɛs.tɪˌɡeɪ̯.təː/, allegation /ˌæl.ɪˈɡeɪ.ʃən/, garbage /ˈɡɑɹ.bɪd͡ʒ/
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 tweet, dump, coin.
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.