Shadowing Practice: Learn English with WEDNESDAY — Fighting Bianca 🤺 - Learn English Speaking with Video

Let's see if you bleed in black and white.

Your face finally got that splash of color.

It's so desperately needed.

Today, I have an exciting lesson for you with Netflix's Wednesday.

In the scene we'll watch, she meets the most popular girl in school, Bianca, and challenges her to a fight, fencing.

That's this sport like sword fighting.

You'll be learning tons of new words in this lesson, like bleed and splash that we just saw.

and to actually practice speaking the new words

that you're learning with people from all around the world for

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that in just a little bit now let's

head over to fencing practice coach coach

he tricked me it was a clean strike rowan maybe

if you wind less than practice more you wouldn't suck seriously coach

when am i gonna get some real competition anyone else want

challenge me i do oh you must be the psychopath they let in

and you must be the self -appointed queen bee interesting thing about bees pull out their stingers and they drop dead

rowan doesn't need you to come to his defense he's not helpless he's lazy are we doing this or not

so at the start we saw bianca fencing against another student

named rowan coach coach she tricked me it was a clean

strike rowan to trip someone means to make them stumble

or fall usually by catching their foot

but the coach isn't buying it he says it was a

clean strike meaning a fair legal hit done properly within the rules.

What do you think?

Did Bianca cheat?

Well next we see that Bianca isn't a very humble winner.

To whine means to complain in an annoying high -pitched way, kind of like a small child would.

Like in this example from the Addams Family.

It's not gonna be easy.

There are people everywhere.

You can do it if you just stop whining.

Nobody likes that.

Diana, you gonna stop that whining and if something

or someone sucks it means it's just really bad listen to

this i got a stack of user complaints like a mile high look i know it sucks

but the ip recognition is rock hard okay

so don't even worry about it but another sonic youth album

and it sucks it's just noise so

which of these is the best example of whining i refuse to accept defeat but it's not fair.

I always lose.

I'll get you next time.

Right, it's B.

Moving on.

Oh, you must be the psychopath they let in.

And you must be the self -appointed queen B.

So Wednesday is not having Bianca's insults

if you appoint someone you're officially giving them a role

or position so self -appointed means that someone gave themselves a title

or authority that nobody else actually gave them my name is dawada

and as team captain appointed team captain i'm not acknowledging that remark

and a queen bee is a slang term for the most popular most powerful girl in a school

or social group you know the one everyone either wants to be

or wants to be friends with think regina george in mean girls this fame

or popularity usually comes with power

and influence just like the power a real queen bee has over her workers

so wednesday is saying bianca just decided all on her own

that she's the top girl here nobody voted for

that interesting thing about bees pull out their stingers

and they drop dead and this is a brilliant play on words from wednesday

and kind of a threat so this is the beast stinger

and drop dead means to die suddenly

and immediately actually it's just like olivia rodrigo's new song

that we recently made a reel to drop dead literally means to die suddenly

but we can use it as an exaggeration to express a big emotion

when the person you really like asks you on a date you feel like you might drop dead.

When Messi scores a goal in the final minute of a game, many fans drop dead.

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Rowan doesn't need you to come to his defense.

He's not helpless, he's lazy.

If someone is helpless, it means they can't do anything to protect or help themselves.

By the way, the suffix less means without.

So helpless means without help or unable to help oneself.

You'll see this pattern everywhere.

Careless without care.

hopeless without hope fearless without fear so Bianca's saying Rowan can help himself

but he's too lazy to try ouch now the first time

I moved to another country to Germany I felt pretty helpless see I've been studying German for three years

but no one could understand me when I spoke that's

because I'd had plenty of opportunities to study German

but not to speak it but with time

and patience I eventually became fluent but that wasn't

because I studying more it was much simpler than

that i finally had people to speak with

and a reason to speak every day and honestly

if you know a lot of english

but you don't feel natural speaking it that's probably what's missing for you too

so we built a place for exactly

that inside the real life app a place where you don't

just learn english you live it it's called the real life

speaking club every single day you get a new fascinating topic

that you can discuss with people from all around the world in real conversations

and become more fluent this really is the best way to go from intermediate learner to advanced english speaker

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All right now let's watch Wednesday and Bianca's actual fight.

We heard en garde at the very start of the fight, which is borrowed straight from French.

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It's said right before a fencing match starts, telling both opponents to get into position and get ready to fight.

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All right, so, so far, Wednesday and Bianca are pretty evenly matched.

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means they're roughly equal in skill

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so neither one has a clear advantage think of france

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and argentina in the 2022 world cup they were pretty evenly matched now let's continue watching the

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that first point was clearly beginner's luck let's finish

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this for the final point i would to invoke a military challenge no masks no tips winner draws first blood

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so bianca says that wednesday had beginner's luck that first point was clearly beginner's luck

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this is when someone who's totally new at something succeeds purely by chance not skill Like when your friend, who's never played darts in their life,

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throws one dart and hits a bullseye.

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That's beginner's luck.

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Listen to these ways natives use it.

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I want to do it again.

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Going again.

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Everybody's a winner.

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Win a prize.

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Then we hear Wednesday wants to up the stakes or increase the challenge.

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For the final point, I would like to invoke a military challenge.

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To invoke means to formally bring something up or call upon a rule, tradition, or power like here in Pirates of the Caribbean.

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I invoke the rite of parley.

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According to the code of the brethren set down by the pirates Morgan and Bartholomew, you have to take me to your captain.

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Let's hear exactly what a military challenge is in fencing.

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No masks, no tips.

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Winner draws first blood.

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so this is a fencing mask fencing swords have a soft rounded tip

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that keeps it from actually hurting anyone

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or in another context this is the tip of a pencil sure annoying

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when those break so by removing masks

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and tips this fight just got a whole lot more dangerous

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that's why the winner is the first to draw blood

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that means to actually cause bleeding but actually sometimes when you go to the hospital, they need to draw blood with a needle for tests.

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Alright, and finally, we can learn with the two insults Bianca used in that clip where she wins.

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Let's see if you bleed in black and white.

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To bleed simply means to lose blood, usually from a cut or an injury.

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Bianca's being sarcastic since Wednesday famously only wears black and white.

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And then when Bianca wins, she throws this at Wednesday.

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Your face finally got that splash of color.

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It's so desperately needed.

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A splash of something is just a small, unexpected amount of it, usually a color or a flavor.

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You'll hear this a lot with drinks, like a splash of milk in my coffee.

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It's just begging for a splash of color.

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Cappuccino with an extra splash of espresso, please.

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Again, it's a mean joke.

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Bianca's saying that a bit of red makes Wednesday look better.

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So in the end, Bianca comes out on top, meaning she wins.

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We could say Spain came out on top in the World Cup this year.

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However, there's a great lesson here about not judging a book by its cover.

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That is, not being tricked by your first impression of something, practicing being non -judgmental.

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Wednesday and Bianca both start out thinking they know who the other is.

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However, they eventually realize they have a lot in common.

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They both deal with challenges with their parents, and eventually they band together to defeat the villain, Joseph Crackstone, at the end of season one

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and become friends by the way a great way to increase your non -judgmentalism

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which really is an essential skill in a globalized world is

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by speaking with people from all around the world in the real life speaking club

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that I mentioned earlier remember

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that you can join for free with the link down in

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the description I hope you had fun learning with Wednesday

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and Bianca but we're not done yet now comes the most important part of the lesson you'll test everything

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that you learned by But watching the scenes again, this time without subtitles and answering some quiz questions.

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Let's do this.

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Coach, coach, you tricked me.

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It was a clean strike Rowan.

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Maybe if you whined less and practiced more, you wouldn't suck.

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If you whine, you are complaining, winning a competition, losing blood.

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Seriously, coach, when am I going to get some real competition?

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Anyone else want to challenge me?

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I do.

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Oh, you must be the psychopath they let in.

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And you must be the self -appointed queen bee.

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What does self -appointed mean?

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Chosen and voted in by others?

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Someone who gave themselves a title?

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Someone who was appointed by king or queen?

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Interesting thing about bees.

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Pull out their stingers and they drop dead.

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Rowan doesn't need you to come to his defense.

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He's not helpless.

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He's lazy.

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How else can you call someone courageous, using the less suffix?

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Fearless.

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Are we doing this or not?

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Anger!

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Point to Wednesday.

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The score is even.

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If two competitors are evenly matched, it means one is clearly much better than the other, they are roughly equal in skill, they refuse to compete against each other.

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What do you call it if someone new at something does well?

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Beginner's luck?

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Beginner's chance?

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Beginner's fortune?

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That first point was clearly beginner's luck.

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Let's finish this.

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For the final point, I would like to invoke a military challenge.

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No masks, no tips.

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Winner draws first blood It's your decision,

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Bianca Let's see if you bleed in black and white

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your face finally got that splash of color it's so desperately needed

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oh yeah great job today and

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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les

Deze spreekles op niveau B1 is gebaseerd op de video “Learn English with WEDNESDAY — Fighting Bianca 🤺”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: wednesday, bianca, coach, challenge, speaking. Deze video bevat 209 zinnen en 2260 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 17:38. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 128 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. 84% 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
rowan zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈɹoʊ.ən/	wilde lijsterbes, gewone lijsterbes
appoint werkwoord	/əˈpɔɪnt/	beschikken, bepalen
splash werkwoord	/splæʃ/	pletsen, spetteren
fence zelfstandig naamwoord	/fɛns/	hek, omheining
whine werkwoord	/ˈwaɪ̯n/	zeuren
helpless bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/ˈhɛlplɪs/	hulpeloos
bleed werkwoord	/ˈbliːd/	bloeden
invoke werkwoord	/ɪnˈvoʊk/	aanroepen
mask zelfstandig naamwoord	/mæsk/	masker
stinger zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈstɪŋ.ɚ/	angel
lazy bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/ˈleɪ̯zi(ː)/	lui, werkschuw
psychopath zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈsaɪkəʊpæθ/	psychopaat
desperately bijwoord	/ˈdɛs.p(ə.)ɹət.li/	wanhopig
bee zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈbiː/	bij, honingbij
annoy werkwoord	/əˈnoɪ̯/	ergeren, vervelen

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

Woord	Betekenis
check out werkwoord	onderzoeken

Zinnen om te herhalen

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

Let's see if you bleed in black and white.
What do you think?
I'll get you next time.
Anyone else want to challenge me?
Are we doing this or not?

Grammatica in deze video

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

Structuur	In de video
Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet	is borrowed · being tricked · was appointed
Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding	fight, which is · Someone who gave · Someone who was
Overtreffende trap the -est / the most … — het hoogste of laagste van een groep	the most popular · the best · the most important
Mogelijkheid met “might / may” might/may + werkwoord — iets is mogelijk maar niet zeker	might drop · might want

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 32 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals you'll, you're, doesn't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

De “th”-klanken: psychopath /ˈsaɪkəʊpæθ/, brethren /ˈbɹɛðɹən/
De klanken “sh” en “zh”: splash /splæʃ/, exaggeration /ɪɡˌzæd͡ʒəˈɹeɪʃən/, emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, patience /ˈpeɪ̯.ʃəns/
Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: desperately /ˈdɛs.p(ə.)ɹət.li/, intermediate /ɪn.tə(ɹ)ˈmi.di.ət/, cappuccino /ˌkæpəˈt͡ʃinoʊ/, exaggeration /ɪɡˌzæd͡ʒəˈɹeɪʃən/, competitor /kəmˈpɛt.ɪ.tɚ/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: bleed /ˈbliːd/, globalize /ˈɡloʊ.bə.laɪz/, quiz /kwɪz/, subscribe /səbˈskɹaɪb/, acknowledge /əkˈnɑ.lɪd͡ʒ/
/æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: splash /splæʃ/, mask /mæsk/, psychopath /ˈsaɪkəʊpæθ/, cappuccino /ˌkæpəˈt͡ʃinoʊ/, exaggeration /ɪɡˌzæd͡ʒəˈɹeɪʃən/
/g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: exaggeration /ɪɡˌzæd͡ʒəˈɹeɪʃən/, globalize /ˈɡloʊ.bə.laɪz/

Zo oefen je met deze video

Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
Spreek zin voor zin na op normale snelheid en herhaal elke zin tot je ritme gelijk is aan dat van de spreker.
Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als rowan, appoint, splash.

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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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Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

Zinnen om te herhalen

Grammatica in deze video

Uitspraak om op te letten

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Wat is de Shadowing-techniek?