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Hello everybody and welcome to English at Ease,

a podcast designed to help you learn English by listening to natural conversation between two native English speakers.

My name is Adam.

And my name is Desiree.

And in today's video, we'll talk about embarrassing moments in our lives.

Yeah, this is one that I am not super excited for.

I'm excited to hear your embarrassing stories, but I'm not super excited to tell my embarrassing stories

because they're just kind of memories that I don't like reliving because they were very, very embarrassing.

But let's go ahead and get started.

Do you want to start first or should I tell my story first?

You can start off first.

All right, let's start with probably the most embarrassing thing to ever happen to me in my entire life.

This happened when I was probably about, I don't know, maybe like 10 years old.

I was pretty young.

Yeah.

Okay, so this was a while ago.

Yeah, long time ago uh and i remember during this time my brothers

and i really liked playing

this trading card game called magic the gathering maybe some of you guys know about it it's it's really popular

it's kind of like pokemon but a little bit different well during that time we were really into this game

Magic the Gathering.

And we liked to go to this game store where people would play that game, where they would play

Magic the Gathering.

So we'd go there pretty regularly to play with people.

Well, one day, I remember it was a Sunday, and I was feeling very, very sick that Sunday.

I was totally sick.

I was feeling terrible.

And I remember we had just finished watching a football game on the TV.

We had just finished watching the Chargers football game, which is my favorite team.

I think they lost, which they usually do, which is kind of sad.

But I remember after the game finished, my brothers asked me, do you want to go to the game store?

They wanted to go to this game store to play

Magic the Gathering.

And I was like, I don't think so because I felt so sick, right?

You don't want to go outside when you feel sick.

No, definitely not.

Yeah, that's the time you least want to go outside.

Yeah, for sure.

But this time, I was kind of considering it because my brothers really wanted to go to this game store.

And I also really liked going there.

So it was kind of like, do I just go and hope for the best?

Or do I stay home?

And then I knew if I stayed home, I would just be thinking about it the entire time.

Thinking, man, I wish I went to the game store.

You would have missed out.

Yes.

So my brothers kind of pressured me.

When somebody pressures someone, we mean that they kind of really try to convince somebody

and really try to get somebody to do something.

And eventually, I agreed to go to the game store.

Huge FOMO?

Yeah, exactly.

I had FOMO, which is like slang, which means fear of missing out.

So I was kind of like, I didn't want to know that my brothers were at the store and I was just at home.

So I was like, okay, fine.

I'll go to the game store.

So I went to the game store and we were playing

Magic the Gathering and I was feeling okay.

Actually, I felt almost completely better.

I wasn't feeling sick at all.

But you know how this goes when you're sick.

You'll randomly feel better for a while and then he'll feel terrible again

Do you have that ever?

Yeah, all the time every time I'm sick that happens.

Yeah So it just kind of goes back and forth you'll feel sick

and then you feel better and then you feel sick again

So I was feeling good for a while and I was like man

It was a good decision to come out here.

It was great choice

But then all of a sudden I started to feel really really sick and it kind of set on very very quickly

Usually does whenever you're sick.

Yes, 100%.

It was like I was feeling good and then within seconds or minutes I was feeling very sick.

And it was so bad that it felt like I needed to throw up.

Oh no. Yeah, it felt like I needed to vomit or to throw up.

And I just wasn't really thinking straight at the time, probably because I was 10.

So I didn't like go outside or anything.

I kind of just tried to hold it in.

and then all of a sudden I realized I wasn't going to be able to hold it in.

So I literally got up and I started running to the restroom in the game store

because I was hoping I could reach the restroom and then I could throw up in the toilet in the restroom.

but i wasn't able to reach the restroom

so i it just started kind of pouring out pouring out coming out

and um i tried like covering my mouth but it was just kind of coming out

and uh eventually i made it to the restroom i was able to throw up in the restroom

and then the worst

and most embarrassing part was i had to open the door to the restroom

and just stand in front of everybody who had just seen me throw up all over the store

because everybody saw it i also

destroyed or ruined a bunch of the stuff that they were selling there because i accidentally

threw up on a bunch of like little stuffed animals

that they were selling i think they were like pokemon stuffed animals

and i threw up on a bunch of them so those were totally ruined

so did you have to pay for it no

they didn't make me pay for it i think

you were 10 yeah imagine they charged you i think they felt kind of bad for me

because i was obviously a kid yeah

so they were very nice about it there was a guy

who clean who had to clean up my throb for me

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and the worst part was is

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that at the time yeah uh not neither of my brothers knew how to drive

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so my brothers are older than me

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but they were still not able to drive at that time

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so we had to call my mom

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and ask her to come pick us up

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but we lived like 20 minutes away

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so it took her like 20 minutes to arrive

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so I just had to wait inside the store in shame

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in shame as I waited for her to arrive uh

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and do you not like tell anyone like hey I'm not feeling good or did you just immediately decide to just run.

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I just immediately decided to run.

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I didn't tell anybody I was feeling bad.

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You got ruined by surprise.

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And the worst part is I probably could have easily avoided

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it being such a big problem because there were like trash cans all around the store, like little trash cans.

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And for some reason, I didn't just pick up one of those trash cans and throw up in the trash can.

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Like it would have been maybe a little bit embarrassing if I threw up in a trash can and everybody saw me.

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Yeah.

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But at least I wouldn't have thrown up all over the store.

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But for some reason, I just didn't think about those little trash cans in the moment.

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You have to give yourself some grace.

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You were 10 years old.

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Yeah, that's true.

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Yeah, I was very young, but it was definitely very, very embarrassing.

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And you might even say traumatizing for me because I didn't go back to that game store for like another three years.

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I remember I only built up the confidence after like three years

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because I decided that when I was about 13 years old,

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anybody who still went there probably wouldn't recognize me because I looked much older.

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I had grown a lot and I just looked much different than I did before.

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So I was like, okay, I think I can go back now because they're probably not going to remember

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that I was the kid who threw up in the store.

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They're also seeing many faces each day, you know.

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Yeah, but I don't think they would forget my face after I threw up everywhere.

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And you had to wait 20 minutes.

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Yeah, so that was the worst, one of the worst moments of my life.

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It was very, very embarrassing, and it took me a long time to recover from that one.

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I don't think I'd even have the courage to go back there.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, I don't know how I did it eventually

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But it did take some time but sorry to everyone at home

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if that story was kind of gross I probably should have given you guys a warning beforehand

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So hopefully none of you guys were eating a meal while watching this video, but my bad All right.

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Do you want to go ahead and tell your embarrassing story?

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and we'll see if it's more embarrassing or less embarrassing.

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I'd probably say less.

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So my story was when I was in high school.

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This happened in Spanish class and I'm not like I speak Spanish but I'm not the best at it.

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I feel like I'm better at understanding it than speaking it.

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So we had to do a project where we had to present in front of the entire class.

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What were you supposed to be presenting to everybody?

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So yeah we had to choose someone that represented Hispanic culture.

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The person that I chose was a singer.

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I'm not sure if you guys are familiar with her

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but her name is Selena Quintanilla

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and we had to give like like what they did and like how they impacted you know

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Hispanic culture and I remember not really caring about the project, so I didn't really give my all into it.

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So I just basically Googled, translated everything.

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So this project was supposed to be in Spanish, right?

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Like you were supposed to present everything in Spanish?

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Yes, in Spanish, yes.

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Okay.

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We were supposed to, yeah, everything in Spanish without reading the presentation.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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So like you, to make your presentation, you just like wrote it all in English,

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but then you just put it into Google translate and then just copied and pasted it onto your presentation.

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There was no way I would have done it without it.

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Oh, like you just, because I, Is it just too much work or?

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Um, I'd say my Spanish is not the best.

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Like I said, I'm better at listening than speaking and writing yeah

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so I feel like if I wrote it my Spanish will be completely off

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so the Google translation I felt like helped me yeah

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I think the reason why we weren't allowed to read the presentation

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while you know presenting it in front of the class was

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because um I think the teacher might have been um I think the teacher might have known

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that like students would have gone on Google translate and done

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that you know instead of really like doing the assignment like they're supposed to yeah

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so he was afraid of students like you so he was like

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that your teacher was trying to like test you guys

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and make sure that you really understood what you were saying right

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so he basically you're saying

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that he told you you weren't allowed to look at your like your presentation

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while you were presenting it yeah

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you just had to do it from memory yeah okay we were able to glance at it

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but not like fully just like you know like just read

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it from it yeah you can look look at it

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and then look at the audience or whatever your classmates you know

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and I'm guessing you probably didn't memorize what Google Translate came up for you very well right no

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I was not a good student Spanish class I didn't really care about now

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that I look back at it I would have definitely done

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a lot more than what I you know did the moment I went up to present I was

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so embarrassed because I didn't know what to do

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because then I remembered

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that we weren't supposed to look at the board we were supposed to well we could look at it

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but we're not supposed to completely look at it we're supposed to like memorize everything um

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so I just stood there for bit looking

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so nervous not knowing what to do

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so um eventually i just read the board completely without you know looking at the audience

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so you just like totally froze yeah how long how long did you just stand

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there not saying anything do you remember like it for to me it felt like forever

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but it was probably like five seconds okay it's not

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that bad I guess

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but it's a little embarrassing well I mean especially looking at how everybody else was presenting

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and seeing how they were doing I did not do any of

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that yeah that's understandable I think it's pretty embarrassing

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but it's definitely not as embarrassing as throwing up in a store

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but I do understand a little bit why your teacher had you do

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that because as a teacher myself i i don't teach a language class like spanish

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or english or something

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but um we do have kind of a similar thing with

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with ai these days where a lot of students will use ai to write stuff for them

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and i i do notice um the same thing where the

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students won't actually read through what the ai came up with after they had the ai create the paper for them.

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Instead, they'll just have AI create the paper for them.

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They'll submit it.

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They won't look at it once.

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They won't read through it once.

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So then when you ask them about it, they don't know at all what they wrote or what AI wrote for them.

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They can't tell you anything about it.

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Like what assignment is that again?

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Exactly.

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Just like how you stood up there and you just did not memorize anything.

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It's the exact same way when students write papers from AI.

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Yeah, I think it's a bigger problem now with AI since it's like basically all over the internet.

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And I think kids now just rely on that.

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Yeah, that's true.

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I bet that happens a lot in schools where students will have AI create a presentation for them, just like you did with Google Translate.

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And then when they're asked to present it, they just don't know what to do because they haven't really studied what they're supposed to be presenting.

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Yeah.

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But those are some of our embarrassing stories.

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I hope you guys enjoyed hearing them and were able to laugh at us a little bit.

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Give us an opportunity in the comments to all come together and hear your embarrassing stories as well.

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So let us know what is your most embarrassing story.

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This is a great opportunity to practice your English writing skills

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by writing out an entire story in English in the comments below.

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Anyways, I hope you guys enjoyed this

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Thank you so much for watching.

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Goodbye.

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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les

Deze spreekles is gebaseerd op de video “Learn English Hearing our Embarrassing Stories”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: embarrassing, store, sick. Deze video bevat 240 zinnen en 2646 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 15:33. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 170 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

15 woorden uit de video die het leren waard zijn, met uitspraak en betekenis:

Woord	Uitspraak	Betekenis
trash zelfstandig naamwoord	/tɹæʃ/	vuilnis, vuil
translate werkwoord	/tɹænzˈleɪt/	vertalen, overzetten
ruin zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈɹuː.ɪn/	ruïne, bouwval
sudden bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/ˈsʌd.ən/	plotseling, plotselinge
arrive werkwoord	/əˈɹaɪv/	aankomen, arriveren
assignment zelfstandig naamwoord	/əˈsaɪn.mənt/	toewijzing, toekenning
podcast zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈpɑdˌkæst/	podcast
pour werkwoord	/poɹ/	gieten, uitstorten
meal zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈmiːl/	maaltijd
gross bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/ɡɹoʊs/	bruto
skill zelfstandig naamwoord	/skɪl/	bekwaamheid, vaardigheid
translation zelfstandig naamwoord	/tɹænzˈleɪʃən/	vertaling, transmissie
courage zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈkʌ.ɹɪd͡ʒ/	moed, dapperheid
goodbye	/ɡʊdˈbaɪ/	tot ziens, tot weerziens
recover werkwoord	/ɹɪˈkʌvɚ/	terugwinnen

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

Woord	Uitspraak	Betekenis
come out werkwoord	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	uitkomen
go back werkwoord		teruggaan
build up werkwoord		opstapelen
clean up werkwoord		schoonmaken
come together werkwoord	/ˈkʌm tʊˈɡɛðɚ/	bijeenkomen, samenkomen
come up with werkwoord		bedenken, verzinnen
get up werkwoord		opstaan
pick up werkwoord		oppakken, optillen

Zinnen om te herhalen

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

I'll go to the game store.
I wasn't feeling sick at all.
Do you have that ever?
Usually does whenever you're sick.
What were you supposed to be presenting to everybody?

Grammatica in deze video

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

Structuur	In de video
Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding	game, which is · FOMO, which is · anybody who still
Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet	weren't allowed

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 68 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals didn't, don't, I'm. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

De “th”-klanken: gather /ˈɡæðɚ/, throb /θɹɒb/
De klanken “sh” en “zh”: trash /tɹæʃ/, presentation /ˌpɹɛzn̩ˈteɪʃn̩/, translation /tɹænzˈleɪʃən/
Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: accidentally /ˌæk.sɪˈdɛnt(ə)li/, comprehensible /kɒmpɹəˈhɛnsɪbəl/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: arrive /əˈɹaɪv/, courage /ˈkʌ.ɹɪd͡ʒ/, freeze /ˈfɹiːz/, anyways /ˈɛn.iˌweɪz/, subscribe /səbˈskɹaɪb/
/æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: trash /tɹæʃ/, gather /ˈɡæðɚ/, translate /tɹænzˈleɪt/, podcast /ˈpɑdˌkæst/, translation /tɹænzˈleɪʃən/
/g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: gather /ˈɡæðɚ/, gross /ɡɹoʊs/, goodbye /ɡʊdˈbaɪ/, glance /ɡlæns/

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 trash, translate, ruin.

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Belangrijke woorden in deze video

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

Zinnen om te herhalen

Grammatica in deze video

Uitspraak om op te letten

Zo oefen je met deze video

Wat is de Shadowing-techniek?