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whatever you think always has a way of working out.
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So you might as well just be delusionally optimistic, right?
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The world in a weird way bends to your will.
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And what I mean by that is your thought pattern changes the way that your brain views yourself in life subconsciously.
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And then that controls the subtle actions that you make throughout your day that you're not even consciously aware of.
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And all of a sudden, these very small decisions that you make that you don't even think you're making add up to something bigger.
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Excuse me.
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It's the law of accumulation, right?
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So you just need to get addicted to thinking that everything is going to work out.
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You know, once you go through enough weird or bad experiences in life, and then eventually they pan out,
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you start to realize that there really is no advantage whatsoever in thinking neutrally or negatively.
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Like there's no advantage in panicking when something doesn't go right.
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The only workable solution is to think that things will go right.
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And it's really hard to develop this framework, this mindset, but I am not kidding you in the past year, year and a half ish,
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I have seen drastic changes in my life from me just saying, you know what?
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Two worlds exist right now.
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One where I get mad about this or one where I actually think
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that this is opportunity or it's a good thing or it's building my character or whatever.
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You choose what that life looks like for you.
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It's so corny, but start romanticizing your future.
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You should start thinking that that girl's going to like you.
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Start thinking that, you know, you're going to get that job or start thinking that you're going to be living in an abundance.
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The things that you want are going to happen.
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Because if you truly keep this mentality at each stage of your life, you're going to look back and it's just objectively going to be better.
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Imagine you're on your deathbed
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and you look back on all the decisions that you made
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and you're the type of person that thought positively through everything and everyone would point the finger at you like,
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oh you're performatively happy and then imagine you're the negative person
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that everyone's always you know doesn't want to be around
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and you're like you're like you know pessimists they like seem smart they seem intelligent they seem right
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and then all of a sudden you know boom these things just added up in your life
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and in any given instant you didn't care to change your mentality
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because you thought oh i can do it in the future
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and then these things added up which life you think is better.
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The delusionally optimistic, the performatively happy person, or the one that was,
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you know, trying to be realistic and negative about things.
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It's so obvious.
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And here's the thing.
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We all know this is true.
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I remember when I would work this warehouse job and I've talked about it before on my channel,
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but you know, some nights when it was really cold
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and it was getting late and I knew I wasn't going to get much sleep
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and I was tired from lifting the heavy boxes, man, I would just sit there and think, wow, this really sucks.
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Like you're kind of just, you're in that moment for, you know, it's a six hour shift, sometimes it's eight hour shift, whatever.
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You're just in this sucky moment for so long that you have nothing else to do, but to think negatively.
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And I remember at that time when I got that job was the first time I ever read meditations by Marcus Aurelius,
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which is a super cliche, like first philosophy book to get into.
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I don't know if it was my first ever, but it was one of the first philosophy books I I've ever read.
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And it's still just such solid information.
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I truly believe that.
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I just think it's so applicable to the average person.
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And there was something that Marcus Aurelius said in that book that stuck out.
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He's like, he's like, don't catch yourself complaining, not even to yourself.
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And what he meant by
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that is you don't even want to have your personal self -talk in your head be negative
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because it quite literally has not only is it bad for you
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but it offers you no relief like i don't i like this is the issue
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that i struggle with it's like why do people even complain
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because what's the benefit of of complaining because you don't really feel good
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when you complain you almost feel worse
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when you complain it's like it's like you're trying to scratch an itch that's under your skin, but you can't, it's not even possible.
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It only makes it more itchy because have you ever vented to someone, not even complain, but just vented about anything going on in your life.
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And then immediately, like later that night, when you left that, um, from hanging out with that person,
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you're like, Oh, that I wish I didn't do that.
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It's like, yeah, you just, you just endure these things and like, think more positively.
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Anyways, I remember actively telling myself like, Hey, this is something that I need to work on.
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And when I was you know at that job
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because i just every night was gonna suck every night you just you're you're lifting all this heavy freight
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and you got it you're you're red lighting if you know you know
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and it just
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is not the most ideal situation
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and all of a sudden you're like hey
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there's there's no getting out of it let's just accept this experience for what it is
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and not wish that it was anything better
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and then you're cool with it you're cool with it i remember
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and i've told this story before but i had this sales job
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and for the sales job i would i would knock doors in in neighborhoods
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i was a door -to -door solicitor and the way that
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that job works is you have what's called like car groups
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so you have one driver who's the leader
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and then the you know three other people in the car
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and they drive people to their neighborhoods that they're going to
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and i was just really like i hated this job
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so much i was really negative
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and i had my car group driver pull me aside
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and he was like hey man he's like i'm wishing you for the i'm wishing the best for you
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but he's like i can't be around you you're just too negative
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it just kills kills the mojo kills the morale and
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that was like a strong wake -up call for me
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and i remember just thinking like he's he's right like i wasn't even i was i was upset with myself
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but he didn't hurt my feelings i remember sitting there like no that's totally valid that's totally right
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because you just you don't want to bring people down
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you don't want to bring yourself down above all else like i don't know
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it's like you can just complain about things over and over again
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or you could actually do something about it you know what's funny is like
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that you start to view the world in that same light
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if you're a negative person you're going to see a situation that's neutral as negative
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if you're a positive person you're going to see a situation
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that's neutral as positive that's just how it goes you know it's funny
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because a lot of people online will watch my videos um
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or not not necessarily watch my videos
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but maybe just see the the titles of thumbnails and it's funny
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because they're like oh jet is so doomer and this and
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that and it's like if you've actually watched my videos
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and you're not you know a miserable person who's actively looking for misery uh you probably have realized
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that in my videos especially you know at the end of the conclusion
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it's always like something more positive it's always something like hey just
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because society sucks
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or whatever like you gotta do you gotta make an attempt there is still a window to escape yeah
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and it's like people that actually watch my videos know this to be true
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and uh you know if they're not miserable
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or like looking for a reason to get upset
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but my point is this the world is just a reflection of yourself
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the only perspective that you're ever going to experience is your own
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so you might as well just make it the best as possible
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and here's the here's the cool thing hope
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it can be addictive like you you can start to think more positively
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and you start to realize that you like life more
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and you're like oh this is good like let me uh double down on this let me up the dosage of hope
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You know what I mean?
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I just think that if you stay attached so hard to a specific outcome,
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it's probably not, it's probably not going to end your way because oftentimes in life,
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the outcome is positive, but not in the way that you thought it was.
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And just deviating from the mean, the mean being just like anything being different from what you expected will oftentimes make you feel weird about it.
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So detach from the outcome, whatever you're doing, your job, your relationship, a career pursuit, whatever you're trying.
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It's like, I know this is cliche advice, but you just, you have to accept,
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Hey, it's not going to work out exactly how I want it.
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That, that, that universe where that happens doesn't exist.
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It's not going to happen exactly how you want it.
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So just get obsessed with just thinking positively.
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Okay.
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It didn't happen.
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I want it.
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That's a good thing.
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Cause I wasn't ready or it's what if it ends up better than I could have ever imagined?
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Cause the only thing people ever think about is the loss and human psychology.
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The fear of loss is two times greater than the desire to gain.
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And so people are always thinking, Oh, like loss, loss, loss.
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Like what if this doesn't work out what if
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that doesn't work out bro you just
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you just gotta let it be that's that's it you gotta let it be
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because if you if you are
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so stuck on an outcome you will be a slave to
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that outcome and also you might realize in your own personal experience
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that oftentimes the outcome never happens when you want it to happen
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so badly it doesn't when you stop caring that's
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when it happens that's just it's it's life is funny that way you get teased god is teasing you a little bit.
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He's saying, stop trying so hard and just have some faith and trust in me.
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I think that becoming addicted to believing that everything is going to work out.
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Pronoia, not paranoia, pronoia.
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Is potentially one of the greatest habits you could ever establish in your life.
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Everything else would just coincide with that.
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And it's not about being naive.
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It's not about dumbing yourself down or anything like that it's just i i think it's just
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accepting that you don't know what's going to happen
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so let's let me trust in god let me trust in the universe and it's going to be as it is
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i think in the end
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if you can real peace is not making sure everything always works out it's knowing
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that you're going to be fine regardless of how things work out that's it thank you guys for watching

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15 woorden uit de video die het leren waard zijn, met uitspraak en betekenis:

WoordUitspraakBetekenis
complain werkwoord/kəmˈpleɪn/klagen
positively bijwoord/ˈpɑ.zɪ.tɪv.li/positief
suck werkwoord/sʌk/zuigen
sudden bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ˈsʌd.ən/plotseling, plotselinge
neutral bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ˈnuː.tɹəl/neutraal
optimistic bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ˌɒptɪˈmɪstɪk/optimistisch
mentality zelfstandig naamwoord/mɛnˈtæləti/mentaliteit
addict zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈæd.ɪkt/verslaafde
finger zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈfɪŋɡɚ/vinger
necessarily bijwoord/ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/nodig, noodzakelijk
regardless bijwoord/ɹɪˈɡɑɹd.lɪs/desondanks, niettemin
establish werkwoord/ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ/oprichten, stichten
badly bijwoord/ˈbæd.li/slecht
ideal bijvoeglijk naamwoord/aɪˈdi(ə)l/ideaal, optimaal
conclusion zelfstandig naamwoord/kənˈkluːʒən/conclusie, einde

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

WoordUitspraakBetekenis
work out werkwoord/ˌwɝk ˈaʊt/uitrekenen
end up werkwoordbelanden, terechtkomen
look back werkwoordachterom kijken, terugkijken
wake up werkwoord/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/wakker worden, ontwaken

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 73 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals you're, don't, doesn't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

  • De “th”-klanken: deathbed /ˈdɛθˌbɛd/, thumbnail /ˈθʌm.neɪl/
  • De klanken “sh” en “zh”: establish /ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ/, conclusion /kənˈkluːʒən/, potentially /pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li/, reflection /ɹɪˈflɛkʃən/, meditation /mɛdɪˈteɪʃn̩/
  • Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: positively /ˈpɑ.zɪ.tɪv.li/, miserable /ˈmɪz(ə)ɹəbəl/, optimistic /ˌɒptɪˈmɪstɪk/, mentality /mɛnˈtæləti/, necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

  • Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: tease /tiːz/, valid /ˈvælɪd/, slave /sleɪv/, bend /bɛnd/, anyways /ˈɛn.iˌweɪz/
  • /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: actively /ˈæktɪvli/, mentality /mɛnˈtæləti/, addict /ˈæd.ɪkt/, establish /ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ/, badly /ˈbæd.li/
  • /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: finger /ˈfɪŋɡɚ/, regardless /ɹɪˈɡɑɹd.lɪs/

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