Shadowing Practice: Paul Mescal & Denzel Washington Talk Gladiator II, Life Advice & “Making It” - Learn English Speaking with Video
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What's the most unusual thing you ever done to prepare for a role?
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Listen to the director.
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I'm Paul.
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I'm here with Denzel.
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I'm Denzel.
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Yep.
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And we're gonna play In Conversation With.
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Should we go?
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You first.
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Let me go first.
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All right.
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Describe your job in three words.
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I'm unemployed now.
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Tell us about the first time you both met met?
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So the first time I met Denzel, I was in Morocco shooting the first day that Denzel was on set.
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I was going to go up and say hello.
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I have no shame in admitting this, but I was a little bit scared.
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And then I waited at the bottom of the stairs, because it was like up in this balcony, I waited at the bottom of the stairs, and I was like two,
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three minutes passed, and I was like, I'll do this tomorrow.
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So I bailed, and then I met you the second So where did we actually meet then?
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The second day.
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I remember this so clearly.
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You put your hand out, we shook hands, and you go, whacked me on the shoulder and you go, stop working out, man.
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Oh yeah, I was pissed off?
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So that's my part of the story.
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Right, have you learned anything from each other whilst working on this film?
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Absolutely not.
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What a waste of time you are hanging around you.
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I don't know.
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I learned that I'll never want to do it again.
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What's your name, by the way?
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Teaser.
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And you're famous for?
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being in a film with you.
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I learned about humility from you.
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Really?
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Humble man, good man.
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That's very kind.
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Good, humble, hardworking.
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Didn't need to get thrown around as much as you did, but I enjoyed it.
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But a good man, I mean it.
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I appreciate that.
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The thing that I learned that I found so leveling was that regardless of what you've achieved,
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the idol that you are to someone, you came with a desire to do nothing else but work.
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And I think for any young actor, I think it's important to remind people that regardless of where you get to, that doesn't exist unless you have an appetite to work.
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And I learned that from you and also from Ridley.
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Which, I have a question, which side of your back would you like to be patted on?
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I prefer this side of your back.
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Yeah, great.
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There you go.
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Right.
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What's the biggest challenge of your career so far?
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There's no one thing.
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There's never...
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It's cumulative, right?
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Yeah, it's cumulative.
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For me the biggest challenge is like navigating having a life outside of work because I love Work, you know, I don't know whether you have a thought on
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that or whether it's just something that you find a way to navigate those priorities shift.
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I can tell you 50 years of experience I've learned to put it down and go home.
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Yeah, my happiness doesn't come from the roles I play
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or the accolades people have given me and that was that always true.
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No, absolutely not You know I can I'm telling you from 70 years of experience don't listen to them.
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Yeah That's too so yeah spend quiet time Five minutes every morning just be quiet hard to do yeah,
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I'm talking to everybody in this room Very hard to do five minutes of quiet don't reach for it.
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Don't think about it, which is impossible Don't reach for it.
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You know what I'm talking about your devices If you could have played the lead in any film in history, what would it be?
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I played the lead in every film.
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It's historic because somebody else made it historic.
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Yeah, if you want to do it, that's the reason to leave it alone.
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Yeah, exactly.
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Which actor in history do you most admire?
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All right, I'm changing the game.
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Three actors.
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Three actors, yeah. That you admire.
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And I'm not one of them.
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There you go.
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All right, two X.
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Exactly.
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I love Michelle Williams, Betty David, Sidney, Meryl Streep, Marlon Brando, James Dean, Al Pacino.
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What advice would you give your 18 year old self?
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In other words, what were you thinking when COVID started?
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18 year old self, never be the person in the room who hasn't done the most amount of work.
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I would tell my 18 year old self it's okay to
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not know what you want to do with the rest of your life.
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When I was 18 I was scared because I was like okay I'll be a doctor so I was pre-med
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And I had a course called chordate morphogenesis.
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What is that?
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I don't know I still don't know but I played a doctor on TV What was your first I've made it moment?
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What was your first I've made it moment like was there a moment when that happens?
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I'll tell you really you still feel that made what made it like that you've got
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I felt that the first time somebody paid me to be an actor.
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I never thought when I went to drama school.
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I think people maybe misconstrued that it's like, oh, suddenly when you walk onto a big film, or you walk into your opening on Broadway, or you walk into a big paycheck,
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that that's what actors think is the I've made apartment.
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But I think when I went to drama school for three years, I was like, there's still no guarantee that somebody's going to turn around to be like,
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hey, we deem you worthy enough to be an actor an actor.
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So for me, when I was cast in a play for the first time, I was like, not that I've made it, like that there's a destination, but that I was like...
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I still save canned foods.
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Never know.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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No, I remember keeping cans of food and stuff, so maybe whenever I stopped recording cans of food, I knew I made it.
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Okay, I got one for you.
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If you had to fill in the back of this, what would you write down?
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What would I fill it in with?
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What is the thing that keeps you up at night?
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Only the mistakes have been mine.
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Yeah, that's fucking brutal.
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If you were 20 years older than you are now, you'd be 20 years older than you are now.
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Just to clarify, Denzala's reading nothing.
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I'm reading nothing.
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My mother said to me one time, she used to say, boy, the older you get, the older you get.
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Yeah.
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Like, no wiser, just older.
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Yeah.
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Oh, I'll tell you a moment.
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I thought I was hot stuff.
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I came home early on in my career or something, and I knew I was a movie star, and I came to my mother on the beauty shop,
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and I said, Ma, did you ever think it was going to be like this, and that I was going to make it?
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She said, what did you say?
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I think I was in trouble.
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She said, what did you say?
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Let me tell you something.
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So she started calling me superstar.
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She said, oh, you're a superstar, huh?
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I'll tell you what, superstar.
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Go in the back, superstar.
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Get that bucket and that squeegee and some soap and water and hit those windows, superstar.
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When you finish Superstar, grab the mop and mop the floor down.
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Wipe it all the way down.
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Superstar, have you finished wiping it down?
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Are you in the back, Superstar?
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Yeah, the Coke bottles, they have roaches in them, don't they?
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Right.
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Turn them over, get the roaches, I mean, this is a true story.
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Get the roaches out, clean all the bottles.
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They got the message.
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I've heard you say something like this before, where you're like, when people talk about the hardest thing about being an actor, and you say, this isn't hard.
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Picking up garbage is hard.
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That's the garbage man.
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Yeah, that's right.
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Now, here's a question for you all.
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What would you do with five minutes of silence?
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I pray for your generation because we did not have to deal with what you've had to deal with.
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And it's our fault for putting it in your hands.
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There were no nine million opinions of every moment of my day.
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No documentation.
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People that like you and then suddenly they hate you and you don't understand why.
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I never had, I don't even know what you call it, an Instagram account.
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I've never had one.
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Link, what's the other name?
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Link?
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LinkedIn.
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I don't have any of those things.
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You don't have a LinkedIn?
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No, no. I have a Cadillac.
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And on that note, we're out.
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Very good.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau B2 is gebaseerd op de video “Paul Mescal & Denzel Washington Talk Gladiator II, Life Advice & “Making It””. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: actor, superstar, learned. Deze video bevat 158 zinnen en 1462 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 8:03. De spreker praat snel, ongeveer 182 woorden per minuut, dus reken op verbonden en ingeslikte klanken. 84% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken. 33 van de 158 zinnen zijn vragen, dus het is goede oefening voor vraagintonatie en korte antwoorden.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| superstar zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈsuː.pəˌstɑː/ | superster, superstar |
| cumulative bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈkjuːmjʊlətɪv/ | cumulatief |
| navigate werkwoord | /ˈnæv.ɪ.ɡeɪt/ | navigeren |
| admire werkwoord | /ədˈmaɪɹ/ | bewonderen, aanbidden |
| wipe werkwoord | /waɪp/ | vegen, smeren |
| scare werkwoord | /skɛɚ/ | bang maken, beangstigen |
| humble bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈhʌmbəl/ | bescheiden, deemoedig |
| stairs zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈstɛɹz/ | trap |
| garbage zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɡɑɹ.bɪd͡ʒ/ | huisvuil, vuilnis |
| chordate zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈkɔːɹdeɪt/ | chordadier |
| hardworking bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈhɑːɹdˌwɜːɹ.kɪŋ/ | ijverig, vlijtig |
| misconstrue werkwoord | /mɪskənˈstɹuː/ | misverstaan, verkeerd interpreteren |
| squeegee zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈskwiˌd͡ʒi/ | trekker, vloertrekker |
| humility zelfstandig naamwoord | /hjuːˈmɪlɪti/ | nederigheid, deemoed |
| balcony zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈbælkəni/ | balkon |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| hang around werkwoord | rondhangen | |
| pick up werkwoord | oppakken, optillen | |
| work out werkwoord | /ˌwɝk ˈaʊt/ | uitrekenen |
| write down werkwoord | opschrijven, neerschrijven |
Zinnen om te herhalen
Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:
- What's your name, by the way?
- What's the biggest challenge of your career so far?
- Which actor in history do you most admire?
- What would I fill it in with?
- She said, what did you say?
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | you've achieved · I've learned · have given |
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | was pissed · be patted · was cast |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 51 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals don't, I'm, I've. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: cumulative /ˈkjuːmjʊlətɪv/, morphogenesis /ˌmɔɹ.foʊˈd͡ʒɛn.ə.sɪs/, humility /hjuːˈmɪlɪti/, documentation /ˌdɑkjəmɛnˈteɪʃən/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: cumulative /ˈkjuːmjʊlətɪv/, stairs /ˈstɛɹz/, garbage /ˈɡɑɹ.bɪd͡ʒ/, accolade /ˈæk.əˌleɪd/, unemployed /ˌʌnɪmˈplɔɪd/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: navigate /ˈnæv.ɪ.ɡeɪt/, accolade /ˈæk.əˌleɪd/, balcony /ˈbælkəni/, clarify /ˈklæɹ.ɪ.faɪ/, appetite /ˈæp.əˌtaɪt/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: navigate /ˈnæv.ɪ.ɡeɪt/, garbage /ˈɡɑɹ.bɪd͡ʒ/
Zo oefen je met deze video
- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
- Begin op 0,75× snelheid, spreek zin voor zin na en ga terug naar normale snelheid zodra het makkelijk gaat.
- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als superstar, cumulative, navigate.
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