Shadowing Practice: Learn the language of secrets - Learn English Speaking with Video
Les maken...
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Hello and welcome to Real Easy English.
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In this podcast, we have real conversations in easy English to help you learn.
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I'm Beth.
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And I'm Georgie.
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You can find a video version of this podcast and a worksheet to help you learn all on our website, bbclearningenglish .com.
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Hi Georgie.
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Hello Beth.
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How is your week going?
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It's going well.
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It's quite a busy one, isn't it?
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It is.
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It's only Wednesday.
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Yeah.
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It feels like Friday.
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But today we're talking about secrets.
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Secrets.
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A secret is a piece of information that you don't tell other people.
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Beth, does that mean you're going to tell me all of your secrets?
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No. Not now.
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Maybe later.
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Ooh, okay.
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So Georgie, are you good at keeping secrets?
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No, I'm definitely not good at keeping secrets.
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I'm a bit of an open book, which means...
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the opposite of someone who is good at keeping secrets.
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You're very honest and share things, maybe too much.
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What about you?
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Okay.
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I I'm probably the same as you.
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I think I'm
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not good at keeping secrets but
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If it's a really important secret and I've been told "please don't tell anyone" then I won't tell anyone.
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Yes, so Beth, what is the biggest secret you've had to keep?
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Hmm.
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Ooh, um...
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I flew abroad. to surprise
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my boyfriend at the time his dad and we had to keep it a secret
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and we even called him in the morning on a video call and pretended we were at home and we were in a different country.
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Oh my gosh.
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So that was a Big secret.
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So it went well?
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Was he surprised?
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It did.
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He was very surprised.
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We were very pleased that we kept it a secret.
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We did well.
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Well done.
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Well done.
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I've had to keep a big secret
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Last year my friend told me that she was going to propose to her girlfriend
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but she told me I had to keep it a secret and it's really, it was really difficult because we have a group of friends
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and I really wanted to tell them but I couldn't and I managed to keep it a secret so
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I was very proud of myself.
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That's good, well done.
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That reminds me, I had a big secret too.
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My friend told me, don't tell anyone and don't tell your mum.
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And I told my mum by accident.
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Oh no, can you reveal the secret to us?
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Oh yeah, she was pregnant, but she's now had the baby.
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Okay.
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But she said, yeah, I'm pregnant, but it's really early.
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So please don't tell anyone.
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Don't even tell your mum.
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Okay.
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And then I spoke to my mum a few weeks later and said, "You don't know, she's pregnant !" And then I realised,
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oh no, I wasn't supposed to tell you.
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Oh, but that was kind of an accident.
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Oh, it was definitely an accident.
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Yeah.
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I felt really bad.
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Oh, well, now she's had the baby.
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It's all good.
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It's not a surprise anymore.
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Sorry.
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"Beth, do you think secrets are a good or a bad thing?" I think it really depends on the secret.
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There are good secrets.
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um like proposing or having a baby and then i guess a bad secret really is
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a lie
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if you have to lie then that's not good yeah i
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agree it's uh it's not yeah it's not good to lie um and i think that's
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a reason why I'm not very good at keeping secrets because I'm a really bad Liar.
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You can see it in my face if I'm holding in a secret.
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Yeah, I think sometimes you can look at someone's face and know what they're thinking.
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I'm definitely like that if I'm annoyed or angry or...
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something you can tell from my face.
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Well that's good because I'll always know that you're being honest and not keeping any secrets from me.
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Let's recap the vocabulary we heard during the conversation.
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We had a secret, which is a piece of information that you can't tell other people.
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And we also have the phrase keep a secret, which means to not share that piece of information.
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If someone is an open book, they don't have secrets and they're honest about their life.
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And if you lie, you say something that's not true.
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It's usually seen as negative, but sometimes you have to lie if you want to keep a secret.
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And we call someone who lies a lot a liar.
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And that's it for this episode of Real Easy English.
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Test what you've learned with the free worksheets on our website, bbclearningenglish .com.
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We'll be back next week with another conversation in Easy English.
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Goodbye.
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Bye.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau A2 is gebaseerd op de video “Learn the language of secrets”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: secret, lie, keeping, Beth, mum. Deze video bevat 99 zinnen en 792 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 5:28. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 145 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
13 woorden uit de video die het leren waard zijn, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| podcast zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈpɑdˌkæst/ | podcast |
| liar zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈlaɪ.ɚ/ | leugenaar, leugenaarster |
| propose werkwoord | /pɹəˈpəʊz/ | voorstellen |
| reveal werkwoord | /ɹɪˈviːl/ | onthullen, zich ontpoppen |
| abroad bijwoord | /əˈbɹɔːd/ | in het buitenland, naar het buitenland |
| remind werkwoord | /ɹəˈmaɪnd/ | herinneren |
| pretend werkwoord | /pɹəˈtɛnd/ | voorgeven |
| goodbye | /ɡʊdˈbaɪ/ | tot ziens, tot weerziens |
| phrase zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/ | uitspraak |
| depend werkwoord | /dɪˈpɛnd/ | afhangen |
| gosh | /ɡɑːʃ/ | gossie |
| vocabulary zelfstandig naamwoord | /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/ | woordenschat, vocabulaire |
| annoy werkwoord | /əˈnoɪ̯/ | ergeren, vervelen |
Zinnen om te herhalen
Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:
- How is your week going?
- It's quite a busy one, isn't it?
- No, I'm definitely not good at keeping secrets.
- I'm a bit of an open book, which means...
- You're very honest and share things, maybe too much.
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 | book, which means · someone who is · secret, which is |
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | I've been told · you've learned |
| Verplichting: must / have to / need to zeggen dat iets nodig is | had to keep · have to lie |
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — iets dat nu of in deze periode gebeurt | we're talking · I'm holding · they're thinking |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 37 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, don't, you're. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: propose /pɹəˈpəʊz/, abroad /əˈbɹɔːd/, remind /ɹəˈmaɪnd/, pretend /pɹəˈtɛnd/, phrase /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: podcast /ˈpɑdˌkæst/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, recap /ɹiːˈkæp/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: goodbye /ɡʊdˈbaɪ/, gosh /ɡɑːʃ/
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 podcast, liar, propose.
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.