Shadowing Practice: Native English Conversation with Captions & Explanation - Learn English Speaking with Video

Les maken...
1
Hello!
2
Anna here from englishlikeanative .co .uk.
3
I've got a fantastic listening exercise for you today.
4
You're about to hear a very natural, unplanned, unscripted, unedited conversation between two native English speakers.
5
After you hear the conversation, I will go back and deep dive into some of the vocabulary
6
that came up so that you can expand your vocabulary as well as improve your listening skills
7
so without further ado let's go i broke a bone um in fact i've broken lots of bones
8
but do you remember this is a test now
9
because i've told you about this before
10
but do you remember my biggest break i do i think
11
i could pass the test i believe you had a spiral fracture of your femur Wow okay I'm surprised
12
because normally you don't listen to anything I tell you
13
but yeah well done I spiral fractured my femur do you remember
14
which leg it was no it was my left gone 50 50 on
15
that you could have just tried when outright failure from you just gave up yeah
16
so I was I must have been like 10
17
or 11 years old I was still at primary school
18
so hadn't moved on to high school i was giving someone a piggyback in the playground
19
and i was the horse and i said how fast do you want to go
20
and she said as fast as you can go so i was like yay
21
and it was i think it was autumn
22
because we had like muddy do you remember like like playgrounds
23
they'd always have these like sunken bits where maybe they hadn't done the foundation properly right yeah like sunken concrete
24
and so yeah and then they'd always get full of mud
25
and then when it rained they'd just like be little muddy puddles
26
and then this muddy puddle was full of leaves
27
but it started to dry slightly
28
so I'm running around as fast as I can with this big girl on my back
29
and uh and my foot caught some leaves and I slipped and went like into full scissor splits
30
kapow and because of the weight of this girl on my back I was quite flexible
31
but she kind of made me go straight down all the
32
way full splits oh really um could you do full splits at
33
that point I because that's a lot yeah for somebody
34
that can't normally do it if I was warmed up
35
but an at a push completely at a push but
36
that was too much of a push it was too quick with weight and And so, yeah, I got this really complex fracture all the way down my femur.
37
I remember going down, and then I blacked out.
38
And then I remember coming to, and everyone stood around me.
39
And I pulled my leg in front of me and tried to get up.
40
And then my leg felt like it was just full of concrete.
41
It was like a dead weight just hanging off my body.
42
And the teacher was completely unsympathetic and just came up and was like, oh, stop being a hypochondriac.
43
Pull yourself together.
44
Pull yourself together she dragged me up off the floor
45
and I tried to put weight on it
46
and again it felt like a dead weight and it I just collapsed
47
and I started crying and whinging
48
and just saying please just leave me here just leave me
49
I was being very melodramatic I'll wait until home time
50
and it was raining it's just like don't be
51
so ridiculous you've got to come in it's raining and
52
so my friend left me the other teacher went to get another teacher
53
and they had my arms over the shoulders
54
and dragged me in doing wonders for your injury it could
55
have made it like it could have splintered the bone
56
so we were very lucky yeah that was quite a significant break
57
and saw me in traction in the hospital for months what does
58
that mean in traction is when you're uh you know
59
when you've got like the leg wrapped up
60
and then it's it's held up it's like suspended like like
61
those cartoons where people get run over by trucks yeah
62
and they're just there in the beds like like puppets yeah absolutely
63
so I was stuck in bed and I couldn't roll over
64
because my leg was in traction
65
and I got really bad bed sores oh it was really
66
uncomfortable especially like 11 years old I was going insane yeah
67
but then when I got into a wheelchair amazing
68
and on crutches I was like speedy Gonzales on you couldn't stop me
69
so it it really stands out as one of my most
70
significant my most significant accidents I may have had many I broke my toe
71
while I was with you didn't I yeah that was weird
72
that we had two small children at the time we had nappy bin bags
73
and you put the nappies in this bin
74
and just keep on stuffing them in until it's completely full
75
and then you tie it off and you pull it out
76
and it's big like a big snake of pooey nappies yeah yeah and And so you then said, I'll take it downstairs, and I said,
77
I'm sure I probably very gentlemanly offered you some help.
78
No, no. And I said, well, be careful.
79
And you're like, oh, I'll trip over this.
80
And I'm like, well, carry it properly.
81
And the next thing I hear, dun, dun, dun, ah, my toe.
82
Well, I knew instantly because my, when I fell, my legs went out to the side.
83
And with our little banisters going down, that's what they're called, isn't it?
84
The banisters going down the side, the rail.
85
The bannister is the bit on the top it's the I
86
guess the rails the rails yeah probably in the balance the foot closest to the banister
87
and the rails had caught like two or three toes had caught
88
and obviously I'd kept going but my toes were caught
89
and I heard the crack I heard it and I felt it
90
and then when I looked at my foot as I came to a stop I looked at it
91
and my toe was just
92
pointing out a right angle to my foot i thought yeah that's definitely broken
93
and it was so painful i always think that in those situations
94
when someone's dislocated something
95
or broken something to a point where it's really um sitting on the wrong angle
96
that you would just you're in pain anyway you just grab it
97
and snap it back into place
98
but i couldn't let anyone come anywhere near me i thought do not touch it this is horrendous even
99
when i got to the hospital i was like don't touch my toe i think you have to do
100
that within the first like five seconds before the swelling sets like
101
if you if you cut your hand
102
and you've got skin hanging off the first thing i do is just tear it off
103
because if you leave it on it's it's like perpetual longer term just pain
104
and discomfort it's better to just get it off right let's now deep dive into some of
105
that vocabulary so let's go through again and I will stop
106
when there's something to explain let's go I broke a bone um in fact I've broken lots of bones
107
but do you remember this is a test now
108
because I've told you about this before
109
but do you remember my biggest break I do I think
110
I could pass the test I believe you had a spiral fracture of your femur.
111
Wow, okay.
112
I'm surprised because normally you don't listen to anything I tell you.
113
But yeah, well done.
114
I spiral fractured my femur.
115
Do you remember which leg it was?
116
No. Fracture.
117
I talk about fracturing my femur.
118
The femur is the biggest thigh bone and I fractured it.
119
A fracture is like a crack through a structure, but the structure remains in place
120
so here we're talking about bones i cracked the bone
121
but the bone didn't change shape everything held together just like
122
if you knock an eggshell the eggshell might fracture you might see a crack appear in the eggshell
123
but the eggshell may still hold together it doesn't necessarily come apart they would need a little more pressure for
124
that so i was lucky i fractured my femur
125
but it stayed in place it was my left i'd have gone 50 50 on
126
that couldn't i you could have just tried
127
when we were outright failure from you just gave up here nick said i could have gone 50 50 on
128
that what he meant was there was a 50 chance
129
that he would have been right no matter what he had guessed left
130
or right it was one of them
131
so he was saying 50 50 i could have been right
132
so i should have just tried i should have just guessed left
133
or right and i might have been correct yeah
134
so I was I must have been like 10
135
or 11 years old I was still at primary school
136
so hadn't moved on to high school I was giving someone
137
a piggyback in the playground piggyback a piggyback is the act of having someone jump up on your back
138
and they normally put their legs around your waist
139
and they put their arms around your shoulders or around your neck
140
and you hold them and you walk them
141
so that's a piggyback to give someone a piggyback
142
and i was the horse and i said how fast do you want to go
143
and she said as fast as you can go
144
so i was like and it was i think it was autumn
145
because we had like muddy do you remember like like playgrounds
146
they'd always have these like sunken bits where maybe they hadn't
147
done the foundation properly right yeah like sunken concrete poor work
148
and so yeah and then they'd always get full of mud
149
and then when it rained they'd just like be little muddy puddles
150
and then he
151
and nick said poor workmanship poor workmanship is something that's being crafted in a bad way so
152
if i haven't done a good job at making whatever it
153
is i'm making then you can say that's poor workmanship that shows poor workmanship.
154
Like if I'm plastering a wall and then painting it, and I don't allow the plaster to dry properly before throwing the paint on it, it's going to look bad.
155
It's not going to be a good job.
156
And you say, the paint's a bit shoddy.
157
The plaster all looks a little bit rushed.
158
That's poor workmanship.
159
So when time and effort have not been put into creating something, that results in poor workmanship.
160
This muddy puddle was full of leaves, but it started to dry slightly.
161
So I'm running around as fast as I can with this big girl on my back.
162
And my foot caught some leaves and I slipped and went into full scissor splits.
163
Kapow!
164
Scissor splits now the splits is when you separate your legs out
165
and they go in opposite directions like flat against the floor
166
your legs go fully flat against the floor in opposite directions there are two types of splits
167
that you can do scissor splits is where one leg goes forwards
168
and one leg goes backwards just like a pair of scissors
169
but the other splits are called box splits that's where your legs both go out to the sides
170
so one out on the left one out on the right I did the scissor splits
171
and because of the weight of this girl on my back i was quite flexible
172
but she kind of made me go straight down all the way to be flexible to be flexible just means
173
that you can bend very well so
174
if you can stand up straight with your knees locked
175
and bend down to touch the floor with the palms of
176
your hands then you are probably quite flexible fall splits oh really Could you do full splits at that point?
177
Because that's a lot for somebody that can't normally do it.
178
So I could if I was warmed up.
179
I mentioned being warmed up.
180
We warm up before working out or before performing.
181
So we will often warm up our voice or warm up our bodies.
182
It's just the act of doing some movement to get the blood flowing
183
and to get everything ready to perform or to work out
184
but an at a push completely at a push but
185
that was too much of a push it was too quick
186
here i said at a push this is a phrase
187
that means if i really have to
188
or at the very extremes of my ability
189
so i can lift 50 pounds at a push
190
if you really pushed me to my limits if i really was trying very, very hard, I could lift 52 pounds.
191
So I might be able to go that extra little bit further if I have to, or if I'm being strongly encouraged to,
192
or I'm really trying to motivate myself to go beyond my own limits with weight.
193
And so, yeah, I got this really complex fracture all the way down my femur.
194
I remember going down and then I blacked out.
195
Here I use the phrasal verb black out I said I blacked out
196
so if you black out it means that you faint
197
or become unconscious now this is not the same as going to sleep although
198
if you're extremely tired
199
or maybe you've had a few drinks then you might say oh I completely blacked out last night
200
but it is quite extreme so this is usually reserved for
201
when you have an accident if you're hitting the head or something shocks you so much that you suddenly fall unconscious.
202
This is blacking out to black out.
203
And then I remember coming to and everyone stood around me.
204
After that, I said, when I came to,
205
to come to in this context is when you wake up after blacking out or after fainting.
206
So you're unconscious for a little while and you finally open your eyes
207
and you're back in the room you have come to
208
and i pulled my leg in front of me
209
and tried to get up
210
and then my leg felt like it was just full of
211
concrete it was like a dead weight just hanging off my
212
body i describe my leg here as a dead weight
213
when we talk about dead weights we just mean a weight
214
or the weight of something that is not moving
215
so like an inert object imagine
216
if you were carrying a huge sack full of potatoes that's a dead weight it's just a weight
217
that doesn't help you at all
218
which is different to picking up a child of the same weight they move
219
and they're more dynamic and so they're slightly easier to lift
220
because they kind of help you by gripping on
221
and adjusting their body and and being as light as a feather in their mind
222
but if something is a dead weight then it doesn't help you at all
223
and in this case my leg was like cut off my brain had said don't move this leg
224
so it's my brain had stopped my muscles from responding
225
and my leg was just hanging off my body
226
and it was really heavy so my leg was a dead weight
227
and the teacher was completely unsympathetic and just came up
228
and was like oh stop being a hypochondriac pull yourself together
229
pull yourself together she dragged me up off the floor
230
and i tried to put weight on it
231
and again it felt like a dead weight
232
and it i just collapsed i described myself here as a
233
hypochondriac a hypochondriac is somebody who is extremely worried about their health.
234
And they're usually the kinds of people who go, oh, no, look, I've got a cut on my finger.
235
Do you think I need to see a doctor?
236
It might be infected.
237
I might get septicemia.
238
I might die.
239
So a hypochondriac is someone who is excessively concerned and worried about their own health.
240
And Nick goes on to say, pull yourself together.
241
This is a command that you would give someone to say, stop panicking or stop being emotional.
242
You need to be calm and you need to think straight and you need to stop reacting in such an emotional way.
243
So if I am talking to my friend and she starts getting really upset and emotional and behaving in an erratic way,
244
I might have to say to her, look, pull yourself together.
245
It's not that bad.
246
They don't have tea and coffee.
247
That's OK.
248
You don't need to get emotional.
249
Pull yourself together it's not the kind of thing
250
that you should use loosely because it can upset people
251
if it's a sensitive moment if they're genuinely upset about something
252
that deserves to be upset about telling them to pull themselves
253
together can seem like you don't care I would only use
254
that if you think someone is being melodramatic I'll explain
255
that in a minute
256
or over the top not really thinking logically they're just letting the emotions get the better of them
257
and I started crying and whinging and just saying, please just leave me here.
258
Just leave me.
259
I was being very melodramatic.
260
Okay, here I say whinging and I use the word melodramatic.
261
To whinge is to complain or cry in often a consistent and annoying, irritating way.
262
Oh, oh, mum, I'm hungry.
263
Mum, my tummy hurts.
264
I'm really hungry.
265
I'm really hungry.
266
That's whinging.
267
Stop whinging.
268
I was whinging about the fact that my leg hurt and I didn't want to go inside, which was, you know, valid.
269
But to be melodramatic is to be overly dramatic, to be over the top in your reaction oh my leg
270
is falling off leave me here don't touch me that's a little bit melodramatic okay
271
so I was being over the top in my reaction
272
and I was whinging I'll wait until home time
273
and it was raining it's just like don't be
274
so ridiculous you've got to come in it's raining and
275
so my friend left me the other teacher went to get another teacher
276
and they had my arms over shoulders
277
and dragged me in doing wonders for your injury it could
278
have made it like it could have splintered the bone
279
so we were very lucky here nick said
280
that would do wonders for your leg
281
so to do wonders for this is used in a sarcastic way here
282
but you can use it in a in a way that's not sarcastic
283
so to do wonders for something means that it almost works miracles on the thing It does a fantastic job.
284
So for example, a good diet
285
and a morning walk can do wonders for your health or a daily walk will do wonders for your mood.
286
A weekly date night will do wonders for your relationship.
287
So to do wonders for just means it will be very beneficial.
288
It will be very good for that thing.
289
But we do like a bit of sarcasm here in the UK and that's part of our humor.
290
We like to say things that just are the complete opposite.
291
So dragging my leg, dragging my whole body with my broken leg, my spiral fracture, all the way into the school, up to the head office,
292
was not beneficial for my leg.
293
It was the worst thing to do.
294
And it could have resulted in much worse damage
295
and long -term issues
296
but nick used it sarcastically said oh they dragged you in with a spiral fracture in your femur
297
that would have done wonders for your leg he was being sarcastic ha ha ha yeah
298
that was quite a significant break and saw me in traction now here i said
299
that this saw me in traction now here obviously saw is
300
the past tense of see here i'm i'm using it to mean the result of this was me in traction
301
so i might say committing a crime saw me in prison
302
for 20 years taking this course saw me achieve my goals
303
and getting a job okay
304
so we can use saw to mean resulted in this isn't a very common usage
305
but this was a very off the cuff unplanned conversation
306
and it was used in conversation in the hospital for months what does
307
that mean in traction is
308
when you're uh you know you've got like the leg wrapped up
309
and then it's it's held up it's like suspended like like
310
those cartoons where people get run over by trucks here nick
311
used a phrasal verb run over he said uh the characters who get run over by trucks
312
so to get run over is to be hit by a moving vehicle
313
so it runs you over or it runs over you
314
but we say you have been run over
315
that person was run over i always say to my children
316
don't run out into the road you might get run over
317
be careful you might get hit by a car yeah
318
and they're just there in the beds like like puppets yeah absolutely
319
so i was stuck in bed and i couldn't roll over
320
because my leg was in traction um i got really bad
321
bed sores oh it was really uncomfortable especially like 11 years old i was going insane yeah yeah
322
but then when i got into a wheelchair amazing
323
and on crutches i was like speedy gonzalez i refer to a character here speedy gonzalez now i'm assuming
324
that everyone knows who this character is, but you may not.
325
Speedy Gonzalez is a cartoon character from when I was a child back in the 80s who could run really fast.
326
That's why he was called Speedy Gonzalez.
327
And so this little mouse is a character that comes up in regular conversation when I'm talking about being fast.
328
I'll say, oh, I'm like Speedy Gonzalez running all over the place.
329
So to run really, really fast.
330
That's a pop culture reference.
331
You couldn't stop me.
332
So it really stands out as one of my most significant.
333
I use the phrasal verb here, stands out.
334
If something stands out, then it's a prominent thing.
335
So I'm talking about memories and I say this memory stands out in my mind
336
so I'm saying this memory is prominent I remember this particular incident
337
because it was so monumental it had such an impact on my life it was very painful
338
so I really remember it this moment stands out for me
339
this was a standout moment my most significant accidents I may have had many I broke my toe
340
while I was with you didn't I yeah that was weird
341
that we had two small children at the time we had nappy bin bags
342
and you put the nappies in this bin here this might be a really obvious one
343
but because american english is quite dominant
344
internationally i thought i should point it out a nappy in american english is a diaper
345
so this is a nappy we don't use diaper at all
346
that we that's not a word that we use here we know what it is
347
but we don't use it in the uk
348
and just keep on stuffing them in until it's completely full
349
and then you tie it off and you pull it out
350
and it's big like a big snake of pooey nappies yeah
351
and um tie off so to tie off means obviously to tie a knot in something
352
but specifically to fasten something or hold something usually at its end
353
so we tied off the bin
354
so this was a long bin full of nappies nappies nappies
355
that we'd stuff down when you fill it up you get the end
356
and you tie it off so that each end has a knot in it
357
and then we put it in the big bin outside for the bin men to collect
358
and so you then said i'll take it downstairs
359
and i say i'm sure i probably very gentlemanly offered you
360
some help here nick to use the word gentlemanly i in a gentlemanly way I offered to carry the bag for you.
361
Now to do something gentlemanly, it means you do it in a way that is in the manner of a gentleman.
362
So you behave like a gentleman would, which would be to be kind and considerate and protective and helpful, particularly towards women.
363
So he was offering to help me because I'm a woman.
364
And he was saying, I'll do that horrible job, that slightly risky, dangerous job and carrying
365
that smelly bag of nappies down the stairs
366
because i can see you might fall
367
and hurt yourself i'll do it for you darling obviously i declined
368
and broke my toe no no i said well be careful
369
and you're like oh i'll trip over this i'm like we'll
370
carry it properly the next thing i hear i have a toe well i knew instantly
371
because my when i fell my legs went out to the side
372
and with our little bannisters going down that's what they're called
373
isn't it the bannisters going down the side the rail the
374
bannister is the bit on the top it's the i guess
375
the rails the rails yeah probably in the bannister the foot closest to the bannister
376
and the rails had caught like two or three toes had caught
377
and obviously i'd kept going but my toes were caught
378
and i heard the crack i heard it and i felt it
379
and then when i looked at my foot as i came to a stop
380
i looked at it
381
and my toe was just pointing out a right angle to
382
my foot all right here i mentioned the word right angle
383
if something is at a right angle then it's at 90 degrees that's a right angle.
384
So my toe was sticking out at 90 degrees from where it should have been.
385
It was at a right angle.
386
I was like, yeah, that's definitely broken.
387
And it was so painful.
388
I always think that in those situations, when someone's dislocated something or broken something to a point where it's really sitting on the wrong angle,
389
that you would just, you're in pain anyway, you just grab it and snap it back into place.
390
But I couldn't let anyone come anywhere near me.
391
I was like, do not touch it.
392
This is horrendous.
393
Even when I got to the hospital, I was like, don't touch my toe i think you have to do
394
that within the first like five seconds before the swelling sets like
395
if you here i use the phrasal verb set in so
396
when something sets in it begins and we usually use this um
397
when talking about health so talking about swelling or disease
398
or a substance might set in rot in your house
399
if you have a leak then damp might set in
400
or dry rot might set in so it's when something begins
401
and starts to spread so
402
when you have an injury it will slowly start to spread
403
until it really balloons up everything will become inflamed as those processes begin
404
so the swelling sets in if you cut your hand
405
and you've got skin hanging off the first thing i do is just tear it off
406
because if you leave it on it's it's like
407
perpetual longer term just pain
408
and discomfort it's better to just get it off well i hope you enjoyed that
409
if you did find any value in this lesson today then
410
please give this video a like be sure to subscribe
411
and why not leave me a comment to tell me
412
which word or phrase you found most interesting until next time take very good care and goodbye

Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les

Deze spreekles is gebaseerd op de video “Native English Conversation with Captions & Explanation”. Deze video bevat 412 zinnen en 4717 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 26:48. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 176 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. 82% 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
fracture zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈfɹæk.t͡ʃʰəː/breuk, fractuur
bone zelfstandig naamwoord/boʊn/been
rail zelfstandig naamwoord/ɹeɪ(ə)l/rail, regel
angle zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈæŋ.ɡəl/hoek
traction zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈtɹæk.ʃən/aandrijving
drag werkwoord/dɹæɡ/slepen
spiral zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈspaɪɹəl/spiraal
speedy bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ˈspiː.di/spoedig
crack zelfstandig naamwoord/kɹæk/barst, breuk
flexible bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ˈflɛk.sɪ.bəl/buigzaam
concrete bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ˌkɑnˈkɹit/concreet
sink werkwoord/ˈsɪŋk/zinken, onderdompelen
toe zelfstandig naamwoord/təʊ/teen
playground zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈpleɪɡɹaʊnd/speelplein, speelterrein
verb zelfstandig naamwoord/vɝb/werkwoord

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

WoordBetekenis
run over werkwoordte lang doorbijlopen
go down werkwoordafdalen
get up werkwoordopstaan
give up werkwoordzich overgeven
point out werkwoordaanwijzen, aanduiden
roll over werkwoordoverkop gaan
wrap up werkwoordinpakken, omhullen
go back werkwoordteruggaan

Zinnen om te herhalen

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

  • I've got a fantastic listening exercise for you today.
  • Do you remember which leg it was?
  • Do you think I need to see a doctor?
  • You don't need to get emotional.
  • I was like, yeah, that's definitely broken.

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 telti've broken · i've told · have made
Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doetwas warmed · was stuck · were caught
Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of dingsomebody who is · people who go · someone who is

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 117 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, don't, you're. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

  • De “th”-klanken: thigh /θaɪ/, feather /ˈfɛðə/
  • De klanken “sh” en “zh”: traction /ˈtɹæk.ʃən/, unconscious /ˌʌnˈkɑnʃəs/, beneficial /ˌbɛn.ɪˈfɪʃ.əl/, rush /ɹʌʃ/, shock /ʃɔk/
  • Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, ridiculous /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/, uncomfortable /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/, beneficial /ˌbɛn.ɪˈfɪʃ.əl/, necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

  • Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: drag /dɹæɡ/, playground /ˈpleɪɡɹaʊnd/, verb /vɝb/, phrase /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/, bend /bɛnd/
  • /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: fracture /ˈfɹæk.t͡ʃʰəː/, angle /ˈæŋ.ɡəl/, traction /ˈtɹæk.ʃən/, drag /dɹæɡ/, crack /kɹæk/
  • /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: angle /ˈæŋ.ɡəl/, drag /dɹæɡ/, playground /ˈpleɪɡɹaʊnd/, hungry /ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/, finger /ˈfɪŋɡɚ/

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 fracture, bone, rail.

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.

Shadowing-techniek: lees de volledige stap-voor-stap-gids →