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Les maken...
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okay so today let's practice english speaking in real life i'm an english learner
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and i'm going to practice speaking just walking around my city
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and describing everything i see
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and everything i do you know it's gonna be great even
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in cozy it's summer it's warm i decided to take a walk
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so if you also want to practice english like listening skills
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and maybe learn your vocabulary or maybe just hang out with me, have a good time, you know, explore this city because this city is amazing.
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Yeah, let's do that together.
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I hope you're gonna enjoy it.
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All right, so as you can see, it's already getting a little bit darker on the street.
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You see, the sun is going down right there
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and I particularly chose this time
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because the place where I'm going today it's you know it's better to see
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when it's night when it's dark because today we're going to you see those skyscrapers
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it's Moscow downtown and yeah we have already been there recently you know remember
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but today we're going to go there from the other side the side there I really really love a lot
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because like that view is going to be just magnificent bro you're gonna be surprised i'm telling you guys
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and yeah here we are again
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this place this mall has become one of my favorite places in masca recently yeah
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because like i don't know i love that
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and today i decided to come here again
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and walk around right now we're going to go like around the small i'm not going to go inside
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that's the downtown now i've been just waiting
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the lights and i'm gonna go to that area walk a little bit around
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the shopping mall just huge shopping mall man it's huge and then we're gonna go there it's like literally 25 minutes walk
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towards the place I'm gonna go right there.
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Now we're just crossing the street.
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You see how many people are here and it's summer.
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In the summer all people are I don't know, so fresh and beautiful, you know, happy.
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Very, very happy.
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some green lights 11 10 9 seconds 8 7 I bet so yeah this place has become my favorite in Moscow
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I want to hang out here literally every single day
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because we got huge railway station it looks beautiful we got like a tower tower
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and a clock clock to check on time we got big fountain
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and the cafe like a restaurant angola yeah fountain looks good
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i went here last time with my friends we ordered the some food inside the mall
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and then we went out i took a seat here and just chilling,
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eating, you know, because when it's warm you can just sit outside and eat wherever you want.
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Here is like one of the entrances.
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We got a flower.
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Can we spin it?
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Yeah, I can spin it.
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And maybe you'll also remember those flags.
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We got kids around, we got tourists.
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Tourists are here mostly because the railway station and the bus station, big bus station is also here.
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Actually I have never been inside the railway station itself.
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I've never took a train from this place.
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I don't know even where the trains can go from this place. but somewhere apparently
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okay I don't see nothing actually interesting here like just a crowd of people
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listen to this listen to this music it sounds like something latino right we are in Latin America
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Yeah, feels like my home, even though I don't speak Spanish, but I'm Latino.
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the entrance into the subway.
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What are all these people been waiting for?
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Ah, maybe just train and sitting.
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All right, I'm gonna go around the corner, turn right here.
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Oh, no!
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I missed the chance.
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Wow, so beautiful.
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Airplane Somebody is leaving our city Bye -bye Oh my gosh,
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it's so tall And also right there we got tall buildings By the way,
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guys, do you like eating in McDonald's or in Burger King, in general, this kind of junk food?
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Me, personally, I love that.
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I love burgers, fries, cocktails and stuff, but I don't do it really often.
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I don't eat it really often because it's not actually healthy, but I eat it and I love it.
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Here we are.
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oh so many people it's gonna take me an hour it's gonna take me an hour to just get my order
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damn all right let's just what's going on there like
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okay i will just make an order like this let's go you guys bad news the system is broken
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and like the TV doesn't show in the number of an awful like the order you made
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but we got cakes and coffee I just ordered one lemonade
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so it's not gonna take a long time actually to cook a just pour it into the like the cup.
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So many fries oh my gosh and they fry it in oil.
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It's so bad.
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Here's the menu.
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Guys, I got it.
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I bought it.
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I was waiting for 20 minutes just in the line because the line was big.
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It's the best lemonade in my life.
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You have to get ready like now you have to get
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ready bro cuz y 'all maybe don't understand the thing you're
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about to see right now okay guys here we are that's the observation deck I was talking about
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and here is the view okay it's not that crazy actually
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in real life it looks way bigger these skyscrapers like
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and you are literally on the other side over that river you're gonna see this right now
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here is the river it's a river walk down there
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and this view you can take a cruiser by the way that's a really modern cruiser
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just enjoying the river and here's the bridge can you actually use that no i think it's broken
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and the sun is going down right there but i'm going just to hang out
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in this area i'm going to go down there and walk a little bit down there
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right how can i go down oh i don't actually need to go down
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because there was also a great park right here wait oh yeah i'm literally in the forest
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and then boom skyscrapers and here is the
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way down i can take a seat on that bench i want to try that it's a hill very steep
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You don't want to fall from this.
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You don't want to fall down.
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Oh, wow.
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But, you know, it's kind of windy right now.
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It's a little bit nippy, a little bit cold.
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You know, but anyways, the weather is great.
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It looks good.
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That's my POV right now.
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My point of view.
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like actually when i when i first time saw this place
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when i was my first year in moscow
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when i only entered the college i was astonished
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and i was just i was in shock and here
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while i'm waiting for the complete darkness outside let's just talk
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a little it's about life by the way i see some activities right there
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so i will go take a look yeah let's talk about
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life you know i got nothing new like in my life it's just a summer break
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but the thing that happened on internet recently especially like on american internet
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because i'm a big fan of american youtube i watch it to practice my english is like
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that maybe do you know streamers like Casinat, Eyeshow Speed, these kind of people.
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I like watching them and right now they have kind of marathon of playing Minecraft 24 -7
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which is crazy and yes sometimes I watch that being in my dormitory room.
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In terms of playing video games like I have played Minecraft maybe
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when I was at school when I was in five grade maybe
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and I was bad at it I just didn't like it I played with friends a couple of times
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and I didn't play video games
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that much except one video game FIFA the only game I
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played for the whole my life yeah obviously I play such kind of games as a assassin
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and like GTA 5 I played oh
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sport ground oh let's do sports a little bit I saw
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with the news recently there is going to be new FIFA 27 the next like December right November I don't know
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and I've been looking forward to seeing this
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and I also saw they're gonna have like new features in FIFA kind of open world like in GTA
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when you can just walk around as a player
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and participate in different tournaments just walking around on the map you know it's gonna be very interesting
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because fifa never had this kind of feature before yeah let's
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go pull up bars i want to do little pull ups
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to straighten my back i like pulling ups i can do like 20 pull ups
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because i practice it every day outside of my dormitory like in dormitory backyard we got pull barrows, right?
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Can you see me?
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I hope you do.
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Let's do sport.
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Three, four, five.
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guys i found it there's the swing it's like a web
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web where i wanna spend my entire life just lying down like this oh my gosh yeah here is the view
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okay guys that's what i'm talking about with this kind of park
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this kind of place you can chill okay we got this
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kind of view in the night i hope you enjoy this view
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and practicing english together today don't forget
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that i have a group chat for english learners on telegram
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so if you want to find like a speaking partner
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or make more friends you can join
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that free group chat on telegram yeah guys love you all love you thank you
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so much i'm going to go home i'm going to get some dinner done
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and yeah thank you see you bye bye

Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les

Deze video bevat 148 zinnen en 1669 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 14:43. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 113 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. 85% 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:

WoordUitspraakBetekenis
mall zelfstandig naamwoord/mɔːl/winkelcentrum
railway zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈɹeɪlˌweɪ/spoorwegen
gosh/ɡɑːʃ/gossie
clock zelfstandig naamwoord/klɑk/teller, kilometerteller
downtown zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈdaʊ̯nˌtaʊ̯n/binnenstad, stadscentrum
entrance zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈɛn.tɹəns/ingang
spin werkwoord/spɪn/draaien
fountain zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈfaʊn.tɪn/fontein
fry werkwoord/fɹaɪ/bakken, braden
telegram zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈtɛləˌɡɹæm/telegram
cruiser zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈkɹu.zɚ/kruiser
awful bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ˈɔːfʊl/verschrikkelijk, vreselijk
shock zelfstandig naamwoord/ʃɔk/schok, shock
flower zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈfloʊɚ/bloem
participate werkwoord/pɑːˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt/meedoen, deelnemen

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

WoordUitspraakBetekenis
go down werkwoordafdalen
fall down werkwoord/fɔl ˈdaʊn/neervallen
go out werkwoordnaar buiten gaan
look forward to werkwoorduitkijken naar, zich verheugen op

Grammatica in deze video

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

StructuurIn de video
Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telthave already been · has become · i've been
Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doetis broken · was astonished
Past continuous was/were + -ing — iets dat op een moment in het verleden bezig waswas waiting · was talking
Toekomst met “going to” be going to + werkwoord — een plan of iets dat je ziet aankomeni'm going to practice · gonna be · gonna enjoy

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 61 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, don't, gonna. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

  • De klanken “sh” en “zh”: gosh /ɡɑːʃ/, shock /ʃɔk/, observation /ˌɑbzɚˈveɪʃn̩/, astonish /əˈstɑnɪʃ/
  • Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: participate /pɑːˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt/, magnificent /mæɡˈnɪfəsənt/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, dormitory /ˈdɔɹ.mɪˌtɔɹ.i/

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 mall, railway, gosh.

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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