Shadowing Practice: q&a with stormi (and aire) - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Hi, I'm Bear.
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Welcome to my movie.
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Hi, it's Stormy and Bear.
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And today I'm asking my mom a few questions so she can answer it.
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Okay, first question.
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What is your most used emoji?
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My favorite emoji is the hearts or maybe the...
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Used emoji.
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Okay, you're right.
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So probably the hearts.
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The heart emoji was nice.
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What food could you eat every day?
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Mmm.
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Sushi?
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Or like Greek food, like kebabs and couscous?
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Is that boring to you?
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Yeah.
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Is that boring?
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I yawned all over again.
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What about you?
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What?
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Girl, is your questions all mine?
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Okay, sorry.
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What's your favorite thing about lovey?
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Oh, by the way, Stormi came up with all these questions herself herself.
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It took a lot of work.
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You're so cute.
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I can't even take it.
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How did you get so big?
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When did you get this big?
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So cute, right?
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I'm a robot.
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Are you gonna be a good helper?
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Yep, Mommy.
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Okay.
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And that's my cookies again.
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That's my cookies again.
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Okay, favorite thing about lovey my favorite thing about lovey is
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I really love her energy like I like to be around
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her I think she you're both yawning during the interview yeah
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you I just think she really like lights up the room
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and I love that's my favorite thing about her okay what
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is your favorite snack right now my favorite snack right is caviar.
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Chips and caviar.
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Yeah?
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Can I sit here and then when I'm done sitting, they're gonna come back here.
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Sure.
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Eric's gonna go sit off screen.
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Okay.
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What is something you can teach us to cook?
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I would love to teach you to cook Thanksgiving food so that every Thanksgiving you can make it it for me. For you?
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Yes, I don't want to have to cook every year.
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If you can give your 10 year old self a piece of advice, what would it be?
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I would tell her to just keep on being herself and
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that one day you're gonna have an almost 10 year old just like you times 10.
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Okay, did Lovey ever ground you?
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She did.
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How?
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She said you're grounded.
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For doing what?
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What does this say?
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I'll tell you when you're a little older.
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Mommy, Mommy.
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Okay.
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You'll be happy?
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Wait, come tell me, ask the camera.
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Tell me a question.
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If you be poopy, you look nice and then you're a stinky butt.
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I'm not a pain.
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What was your favorite TV show as a kid?
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My favorite TV show as a kid was Hannah Montana.
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Hannah Montana?
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Probably.
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I don't know.
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I feel the pressure to move fast because my interviewer is going so fast.
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What did your childhood bedroom look like?
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My childhood bedroom was different than yours.
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It was not pink.
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It was not perfect and cutesy.
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It was very dark and black in school.
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Mommy, can I see it was poly now and I can go back in?
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Yep, yep, sure.
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What's your favorite color?
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My favorite color is pink.
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Who's the funniest person in our family?
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Lovey's pretty funny.
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We have a lot of funny, funny people.
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Maybe Rob, Chloe, but Rob.
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What was your first job?
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My first job was working the cashier at my mom's store.
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Smooch?
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Smooch.
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What do you like about me and Eric?
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My favorite thing about you is how friendly you are.
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I think you make friends really easily and you're just...
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What?
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I do not make friends really easily.
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I think you do.
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I'm like, please, can you be my family?
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I'm like, okay.
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I don't think so.
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When I go to drop you off at school, it's like all the girls come running.
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Starry's here!
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And you make friends so easily everywhere you go, no matter how old they are, who it is.
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You make friends so easily.
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And I wish that I was more like that when I was your age.
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And I love what I love about Ayers.
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He's so funny.
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One sec.
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My interviewer has left.
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I'm gonna go.
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Hi, I'm here, welcome to this.
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My, this is If you're going to do another collection with me, what would the thing be?
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I would do, so our first collection was butterflies, right?
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So I would just do whatever you want to do.
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Maybe we do more butterflies.
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What would you want to do?
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Probably, I don't know.
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Probably a cookie or something.
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A cookie collection would be so cute.
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Okay, if you're gonna do another makeup collection with A-wellbidded people.
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I think like poopy emoji theme, since he loves the poopy emoji.
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What was your favorite trip we've been at?
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Me or you?
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A favorite trip we took together?
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Turks and Caicos.
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Me too.
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Okay.
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What is your favorite thing to do with us?
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Make cookies.
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Make cookies.
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Yay!
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You guessed it!
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Okay.
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Who has the worst dance moves in our family?
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Probably your Auntie Kiki or...yeah.
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I think she would be okay with me saying that.
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Who would you trust to plan your birthday and who would you not trust to plan your birthday?
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I would trust you to plan my birthday and I wouldn't trust Ayr.
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You wouldn't trust Ayr?
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I don't think he would know what to do to do.
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I think you would...
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I would go to Turks and Caicos for three, four a week and then New York for
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two weeks and back to Turks and Caicos for four weeks and then to Japan for eight weeks.
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Wow!
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We would be gone until my next birthday.
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Okay, what was your favorite movie?
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My favorite movie is Spirited Away.
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Were you a good student in school? When I tried.
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I was a really good student.
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Okay.
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Who is your favorite sister?
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I don't like to pick favorites.
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Who's the favorite of the day?
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The favorite of the day would be Kendall.
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Okay, now some speed questions.
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Staying home or going out?
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Staying home.
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Shopping or traveling?
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Traveling.
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Summer or winter?
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Right now, winter, but usually summer.
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Pizza or pasta?
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Pizza.
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Disneyland or Universal?
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Disneyland.
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New York or LA?
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I like New York.
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I think I like New York too.
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Pool or ocean?
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I like ocean.
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Ocean.
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Early bedtime or staying up late?
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Staying at a plate.
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Dogs or cats?
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Cats.
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Beach or snow?
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Beach.
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I thought you just said you liked winter.
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I know it's confusing but I would say beach.
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Coffee or matcha?
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Coffee.
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Pajamas or getting dressed?
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Mine is pajamas.
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I think mine is pajamas too too sweet
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or salty sweet i think sweet salty like you if you like accidentally put too much salt morning or night
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why it's night
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because you get to sleep yeah probably night you get to
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get clothes in the morning you have to get dressed get up get in the car
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and get some weight i think heels or sneakers Heels.
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Texting or calling?
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Calling.
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What?
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Calling?
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Yeah.
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Last time I asked you, you said texting.
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Really?
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Okay, Instagram or TikTok?
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Right now, Instagram.
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Okay, that was all the questions.
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You did such a good job!
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Stormy came up with all these questions herself.
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And you're just so big and perfect.
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I love you.
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Thanks for doing this with me.
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My best friend.
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Well, we lost air, but that wraps up my kids basically storming.
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Interviewing me.
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Do you want to say anything?
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Goodbye.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les

Deze spreekles op niveau B1 is gebaseerd op de video “q&a with stormi”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: favorite, emoji, cookie, trust. Deze video bevat 211 zinnen en 1245 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 9:40. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 129 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. 83% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken. 66 van de 211 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:

WoordUitspraakBetekenis
emoji zelfstandig naamwoord/ɪˈmoʊ.d͡ʒi/emoji
cookie zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈkʊki/koekje
pajamas zelfstandig naamwoord/pəˈd͡ʒɑ.məz/pyjama
caviar zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈkæv.iˌɑɹ/kaviaar
yawn werkwoord/jɔn/geeuwen, gapen
interviewer zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈɪntɚvjuɚ/interviewer, interviewster
salty bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ˈsɔlti/zout
heel zelfstandig naamwoord/hil/hak, hiel
snack zelfstandig naamwoord/snæk/tussendoortje
butterfly zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈbʌ.tə(ɹ).flaɪ/vlinder, kapel
bore werkwoord/boɹ/vervelen
couscous zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈkus.kus/couscous
helper zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈhɛlpɚ/helper, helpster
stinky bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ˈstɪŋki/stinkend
bedtime zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈbɛdtaɪm/bedtijd, kinderbedtijd

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

WoordBetekenis
come up with werkwoordbedenken, verzinnen
come back werkwoordterugkomen
get up werkwoordopstaan
go out werkwoordnaar buiten gaan
stay up werkwoordopblijven
wrap up werkwoordinpakken, omhullen

Zinnen om te herhalen

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

  • What is your most used emoji?
  • What's your favorite thing about lovey?
  • Who's the funniest person in our family?
  • I'm like, please, can you be my family?
  • What was your favorite trip we've been at?

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 telthas left · we've been
Overtreffende trap the -est / the most … — het hoogste of laagste van een groepthe funniest · the worst
Toekomst met “going to” be going to + werkwoord — een plan of iets dat je ziet aankomengonna be · gonna come · gonna go
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — iets dat nu of in deze periode gebeurtI'm asking · is going

Uitspraak om op te letten

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

  • De klanken “sh” en “zh”: cashier /kaˈʃɪə/, sushi /ˈsuːʃi/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

  • Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: pajamas /pəˈd͡ʒɑ.məz/, confuse /kənˈfjuːz/, subscribe /səbˈskɹaɪb/
  • /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: caviar /ˈkæv.iˌɑɹ/, snack /snæk/, wrap /ɹæp/, accidentally /ˌæk.sɪˈdɛnt(ə)li/

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. Spreek zin voor zin na op normale snelheid en herhaal elke zin tot je ritme gelijk is aan dat van de spreker.
  3. Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als emoji, cookie, pajamas.

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.

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