Shadowing Practice: Larry's tent Curb your Enthusiasm S01e01 - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Cheryl, come here for a second.
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What?
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Look at this.
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Well, what's going on?
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Yeah, what's going on?
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What is going on?
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It's just material.
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Yeah, I know, but really, look at these pants.
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I've seen pants bunch up before, yes.
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I have never seen a bunch up like this in my life.
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I have.
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This is like a five -inch bunch up I got here.
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Well, you don't have to play with it.
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Is it a bad thing?
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Maybe it's not such a bad thing, you know?
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Oh, because you want people to think they constantly have an erection.
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Is it a bad thing for me to walk around like that?
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Yeah, it is.
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I got a tent.
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It's a big one.
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Excuse me.
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Is that a problem for you?
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Excuse me.
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Yeah, that's exactly right.
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Could you be a little bit nicer about it and just go by?
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A little bit nicer.
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You make this big sigh.
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I'm just trying to get by.
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Did you have to move by while I'm sitting here and you could enter the other way?
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Could you just move your legs?
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What are you doing?
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Are you looking at my breast?
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You're looking at my breast.
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I'm not looking at your breasts.
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I'm trying to get to my seat.
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He's looking at my breasts.
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Yeah, yeah, you and your special breasts.
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Just excuse me, please.
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Please just go by without stepping on my foot.
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Right, you wear that dress because you want people to look at your shoes, right?
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Is that it?
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Crick. Can you believe that?
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I can't believe that.
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Did you hear that?
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I did.
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Jerk.
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I hate her.
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What a sick...
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Oh, my God.
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I hate her, man.
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She doesn't even move her knees to let somebody in?
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She's sitting on the aisle.
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She's sitting on the aisle.
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She doesn't expect somebody to come in?
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Oh, I'm so sorry.
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You okay?
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You all right?
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You got really upset, didn't you?
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Yeah, I do.
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Well, don't worry.
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It's over now.
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So, I'm not quite sure how to tell you this, but...
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But I think your friend Nancy thinks she got me aroused in the movie.
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Why would she think that?
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Because of the tent and the pants, and she looked down.
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No. Yeah.
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No. Yeah.
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She thought that there was some garbage there.
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Okay, I'm...
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Yeah.
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She looked down over.
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And she looked at your trot?
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She looked at it.
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She looked at it.
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She looked down.
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What was her reaction?
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What?
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Like it was awkward.
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There was a little twinkle, yeah.
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You're sure that she looked over and thought that you were excited?
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90 % sure.
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I thought we should just talk about this.
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Tell her what you were telling me the other night.
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What are you, what are you, what are you?
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Tell her what you - Why are you doing?
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This is silly.
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Tell her what you told me the other night.
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I can't believe that she's talking to you about this.
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Because we didn't believe you told her.
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Wait a second, wait a second.
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Hold it, hold it.
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Can I just say something here? okay you should all right
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but now i came home
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and i was it was i thought it was really funny it was kind of a joke to me
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that you know that you stared down over here
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because i was wearing an erection lancy this is what's funny this is why it's funny
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because you thought
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that i had an erection i thought that's what we're saying
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yeah even before the movie larry said look at I even pointed out the pants to her right before the movie.
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And, Larry, you sat down and everything was fine, and then I started rubbing your arm, and you got a heart on it.
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It's not a big deal.
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I don't care.
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It's not a big deal.
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No, it's not a big deal, and I wouldn't mind it if, in fact, I did.
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Wait a second, wait a second.
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She was rubbing your arm?
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Oh, because I had it.
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You were rubbing his arm.
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It was upset.
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It was nothing.
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I was upset about the woman.
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Hey, why didn't you tell me that she was rubbing your arm?
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I just forgot to mention I was upset about the woman who wouldn't let me enter the aisle.
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Why wouldn't you tell me that when you told me the story?
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I didn't think of it.
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It's so insignificant to me, the whole thing.
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I didn't think of that.
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I'm taking in all the facts.
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Listen, it happened, okay?
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He got an erection.
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It wasn't a big deal.
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He had the fight with the woman with the big breast.
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It did happen, okay?
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If it happened, I would give you credit for it.
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It didn't happen.
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I know when I get these things and how they happen.
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When you get these things?
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These erection things?
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I know the source.
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I know the source, too.
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Yeah, I can name sources.
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Sophia Loren was once a source.
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I know my sources.
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Sometimes they're mysterious sources, and I don't know where it comes from.
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Other times I could pinpoint it.
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Yeah, what about me?
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Am I not even involved in this source?
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Yeah, you're a source.
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She's a source.
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You're a source, too.
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Listen, you got a hard -on, okay?
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No, I didn't.
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You got a hard -on.
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Look at these pills.
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You got a hard -on.
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That's not what it looked like.
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That was flopping.
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This was not flopping.
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There was something hard in there, and it was your fucking dick.
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Okay.
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Nancy, wait a second.
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Don't look out.
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Let me show you.
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I'll get the pants.
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What did you have to tell her that for?
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You didn't tell me the whole story.
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Thank you.

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Deze spreekles op niveau B1 is gebaseerd op de video “Larry's tent Curb your Enthusiasm S01e01”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: source, looked, breast, erection, pants. Deze video bevat 157 zinnen en 972 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 4:48. De spreker praat snel, ongeveer 203 woorden per minuut, dus reken op verbonden en ingeslikte klanken. 84% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken. 41 van de 157 zinnen zijn vragen, dus het is goede oefening voor vraagintonatie en korte antwoorden.

Belangrijke woorden in deze video

De 13 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:

WoordUitspraakBetekenis
rub werkwoord/ɹʌb/wrijven
aisle zelfstandig naamwoord/aɪ̯l/zijbeuk, vleugel
flop werkwoord/flɑp/instorten, inzakken
tent zelfstandig naamwoord/tɛnt/tent
arouse werkwoord/əˈɹaʊz/opwekken
insignificant bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ˌɪnsɪɡˈnɪfɪkənt/insignificant, onbeduidend
stare werkwoord/stɛɚ/staren
sigh werkwoord/saɪ/zuchten
pill zelfstandig naamwoord/pɪl/pil
mysterious bijvoeglijk naamwoord/mɪˈstɪɹi.əs/geheimzinnig, mysterieus
garbage zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈɡɑɹ.bɪd͡ʒ/huisvuil, vuilnis
shoe zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈʃu/schoen
awkward bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ˈɔk.wɚd/onhandig

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

WoordBetekenis
point out werkwoordaanwijzen, aanduiden
sit down werkwoordgaan zitten

Zinnen om te herhalen

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

  • Is that a problem for you?
  • Could you just move your legs?
  • Are you looking at my breast?
  • You got really upset, didn't you?
  • You're sure that she looked over and thought that you were excited?

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 37 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals didn't, I'm, don't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

  • De klanken “sh” en “zh”: erection /ɪˈɹɛkʃən/, shoe /ˈʃu/
  • Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: insignificant /ˌɪnsɪɡˈnɪfɪkənt/, mysterious /mɪˈstɪɹi.əs/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

  • Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: rub /ɹʌb/, arouse /əˈɹaʊz/, garbage /ˈɡɑɹ.bɪd͡ʒ/, awkward /ˈɔk.wɚd/
  • /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: insignificant /ˌɪnsɪɡˈnɪfɪkənt/, garbage /ˈɡɑɹ.bɪd͡ʒ/
  • /w/ — met ronde lippen: twinkle /ˈtwɪŋ.kəl/, awkward /ˈɔk.wɚd/

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. Begin op 0,75× snelheid, spreek zin voor zin na en ga terug naar normale snelheid zodra het makkelijk gaat.
  3. Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als rub, aisle, flop.

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