Shadowing Practice: My New Years In KYOTO - Learn English Speaking with Video

Les maken...
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these damn foreigners girl chill chill chill chill happy new year's
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i know i know it's already like what uh 13 days into the year
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but let's just pretend it's still january 1st because it is
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and i say
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so anyways new year's i love the new year's it's like the only time of the year
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when japan actually seems to have spirit you know christmas
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and halloween just ain't the same as other countries no decorations
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nothing unless you go to your humongous local shopping mall then they have a few decorations here
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and there and inside i guess
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and also tokyo where most events are taken rather seriously
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but also where all the weird happens so we don't talk about
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that today we're talking about hatsumode
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and i'm pretty sure most of you guys know what hatsumode is
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so i'm just gonna keep it short like my friend koopy
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so hatsumode is basically you go to the shrine do fortune telling japanese style pray at shrine leave shrine
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and i went to kyoto to visit
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i think that's how you say it the kanji is like fushimi inari
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but my mom calls it fushimini so i'm just gonna call it
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that fushimini is a famous shrine because oh gosh there's like
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so many people every year
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but i'm telling you it was another level this year the
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roads were closed off the parking lot we would use every year wasn't available for some reason
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and my mom was raging the whole time like all these damn foreigners forgetting
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that one is sitting right next to her
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that was a long ride man just for a damn parking lot bro oh my god
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so we get out of the car
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and i'm just hyping myself up to climb all those stairs
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there's like 1300 stairs there bro oh gosh bless my soul
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because every year my dumbass be forgetting how mentally
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and physically tiring it is to get to the top for a few minutes it was just me
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and my mom and a few people around
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but the moment we cross the train tracks bro the amount of people
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that just spawned out of nowhere
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and to be honest after seeing all them japanese people daily all the time to see
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so many foreign people walking around
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so casually it felt like i was in disneyland bro i will not elaborate on
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that first we did omikuji basically just imagine fortune telling
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but in japanese and also in riddles that gives me
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that nostalgic feeling of not understanding
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when i first came to japan bro my omikuji was
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so confusing bro i'm not even gonna go in that's not
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what i wanted to talk about i want to talk about
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people taking pictures like listen i understand you're in japan at
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a famous shrine it might be the first time for some people i get it i understand
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but dude come on there was literally hundreds of people like literal hundreds of people walking behind you
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and some random motherfuckers pull some shit like this nugget what
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is this the runway no then why on earth are you
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stopping bro i genuinely do not understand why i have to experience traffic
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when i don't even have a goddamn license
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and i don't even own a car like bro
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because what do you mean it takes more than 10 minutes to get to the end of a path
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that is supposed to be a two minute walk why do
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i have to spend my new year's watching you do your
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glam bot bro like this doesn't make sense let's say some kid fell
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and hurt their knee or something
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and they're crying that's fine they're kids they don't know better they're dumb
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but a grown oh i need to calm down i swear i ain't painting a good image on myself
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because i literally crash out at least once in every video bro i need to calm down
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okay let's go back to the fun stuff oh wait nah
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nah nah bro i forgot i forgot about the stairs oh
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my god no bro i swear my memory just resets every year
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because i thought for even a millisecond
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that i would walk out of this alive bro we walked
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up to the point where we were able to see the view of the city
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and i was like oh my gosh wow that's so beautiful
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and i hear some dude behind me say 40 more minutes
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to the top never in my life have i regretted knowing english this bad dog
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and that wasn't even the end of it we stayed there for a
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while looking out at the view taking pictures
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and let's be real we were also taking a little break and then we decide to start climbing again
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560 more stairs to go they were right behind us bro stop
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that shit it is demotivating as hell make it stop make
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it stop bro was at every save point declaring how many more stairs
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and minutes we had left until our destination
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but like dude with all due respect please shut up please
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because some people in front who heard the dude would look back at me as
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if i were the problem like do i look like a dude to you my mom was
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so ready to throw hands i had to calm her down
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because she would literally just straight up say stuff in english
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just to make sure they understood every single word she said bro the stress was insane
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but eventually we got to the top prayed and we ate some udon
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and some ice cream which i kind of regretted
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because i don't like strawberry ice cream my mom was explaining all the tales
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and fun facts and lore about kyoto
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and the shrine her mom is from kyoto
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so she heard a lot of them when she was small
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and grew up with some kyoto traditions i thought it was cool
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and asked her questions on her way back down
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and she seemed to have fun answering them
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but okay um we were almost to the bottom
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and my mom all of a sudden looks up
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and says oh hey look it's another kitsune
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and pointed at the fox statue
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and i asked what does this one mean it has something in its mouth
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and this woman and she was dead serious i tell you she says
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hmm wheat probably okay bro listen i don't have any knowledge about the kitsune
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but think stay with me we're at a japanese shrine in kyoto wait you mean rice right
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she looks back at the statue then looks back at me
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i mean it's the same thing the same girl what do
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you mean that's it do you know where flour comes from don't they make
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that with rice too flour they don't make flour with rice
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rice makes comeko wheat makes flour we kind of both laughed about it afterwards
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because like bro how are you living in japan for 15
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plus years she's been here longer than me mind you
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and you say like you just came from america two days
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ago bro now i know where i get my intelligence from
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no offense mom anyways today's unrelated story i'm currently living kind of far away from my mom
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and i'm not allowed to take my cats there yes i have cats my mom would occasionally send pictures
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and videos of them and tell me how much they miss me
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and all so when i went back home after a
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while of being away i was expecting my cats to either be extra clingy
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or just a straight up forget my whole existence
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but surprisingly they remembered me the oldest
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and youngest would be very clingy to me
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but i'ma be real they were always kind of clingy
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but my middle child my only son would come up to me
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and just sit next to me like who is this mind
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you this dude was always the one running from basically every single human being he crossed paths with
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but for once i feel like oh my god he actually loves me okay you too i guess
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and i really thought for a second
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that after all these years he was gonna start showing more love
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but nope but it's fine i was used to it
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and i went out to my room to go to bed home sweet home That motherf*er pissed all over my goddamn sheets.
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You ate a dog!
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What kind of bulls* is this?
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Ain't nobody asked for this s*.
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I had to wash my hair again and change my clothes because it was fresh too.
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Oh my god, it was warm.
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And that ain't even it because how the hell my mom just let that s* sit there and marinate?
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Like, girl, please!
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I could still feel it, bro.
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So, I hope you liked the video.
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It's my first time doing that last bit
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and I'm considering doing this in my future videos
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because sometimes i have stories i want to share
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but it's just too short to be its own video who knows i might just do
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that a few times and after a good amount i'll put it in one video
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so you guys can just watch all of them at once
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if you're interested also unrelated but i got this fan art and learned
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that this thing is called the komodo dragon i swear people be sending me pics of this dude
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and i was genuinely confused bro but honestly i love the humor
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so i'm gonna take it anyways stay safe and see you in my next video bye I'm watching you.

Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les

Deze spreekles is gebaseerd op de video “My New Years In KYOTO”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: bro, mom, shrine, dude. Deze video bevat 142 zinnen en 1637 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 7:53. De spreker praat snel, ongeveer 208 woorden per minuut, dus reken op verbonden en ingeslikte klanken. 83% 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
shrine zelfstandig naamwoord/ʃɹaɪ̯n/schrijn
stairs zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈstɛɹz/trap
flour zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈflaʊ.ə/meel, bloem
gosh/ɡɑːʃ/gossie
pray werkwoord/pɹeɪ/bidden
regret werkwoord/ɹɪˈɡɹɛt/betreuren, spijten
fortune zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈfɔːtjuːn/lot, noodlot
climb werkwoord/ˈklaɪ̯m/klimmen
statue zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈstæt͡ʃu/standbeeld
wheat zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈwiːt/tarwe
decoration zelfstandig naamwoord/ˌdɛkəˈɹeɪʃən/versieren, decoratie
confused bijvoeglijk naamwoord/kənˈfjuːzd/verward, in de war
afterwards bijwoord/ˈæf.tɚ.wɚdz/nadien, achteraf
dragon zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈdɹæɡən/draak, lintworm
insane bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ɪnˈseɪn/gestoord, waanzinnig

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

WoordUitspraakBetekenis
calm down werkwoordbedaren
go back werkwoordteruggaan
look up werkwoord/ˌlʊk ˈʌp/opkijken
shut up/ʃʌt ʌp/hou je kop, kop dicht

Grammatica in deze video

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

StructuurIn de video
Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doetare taken · were closed · is called
Past continuous was/were + -ing — iets dat op een moment in het verleden bezig waswas raging · were also taking · was explaining
Mogelijkheid met “might / may” might/may + werkwoord — iets is mogelijk maar niet zekermight be · might just do
Werkwoord + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — werkwoorden die door de -ing-vorm worden gevolgdstart climbing · start showing

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 39 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, don't, gonna. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

  • De klanken “sh” en “zh”: shrine /ʃɹaɪ̯n/, gosh /ɡɑːʃ/, decoration /ˌdɛkəˈɹeɪʃən/, sheet /ʃit/, occasionally /əˈkeɪʒənəli/
  • Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: genuinely /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/, decoration /ˌdɛkəˈɹeɪʃən/, occasionally /əˈkeɪʒənəli/, destination /dɛstɪˈneɪʃən/, surprisingly /səˈpɹaɪzɪŋli/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

  • Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: stairs /ˈstɛɹz/, anyways /ˈɛn.iˌweɪz/, confused /kənˈfjuːzd/, afterwards /ˈæf.tɚ.wɚdz/, pretend /pɹəˈtɛnd/
  • /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: statue /ˈstæt͡ʃu/, afterwards /ˈæf.tɚ.wɚdz/, dragon /ˈdɹæɡən/, elaborate /ɪˈlæb.ə.ɹeɪt/, casually /ˈkæʒuəli/
  • /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: gosh /ɡɑːʃ/, regret /ɹɪˈɡɹɛt/, dragon /ˈdɹæɡən/, youngest /ˈjʌŋ.ɡɪst/, humongous /ˌhjuːˈmʌŋɡəs/

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 shrine, stairs, flour.

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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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