Shadowing Practice: Quotes you NEED to Hear Part 2 | Chris Williamson - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Admit it, you aren't like them.
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You're not even close.
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You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes.
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But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the normal people as they go about their automatic existences.
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for realistic goals, paradoxically making them the most time and energy consuming.
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If you are insecure, guess what?
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The rest of the world is too.
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Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself.
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You are better than you think.
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The world belongs to optimists, because if you're going to do anything big, you have to believe that it can happen.
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Otherwise, it never will.
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Sean Puri says the cynics get to be right and the optimists get to be rich.
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99 % right and 100 % wrong.
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They're right 99%.
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99 % of the time, but they're wrong 100 % because the only thing that matters is the big one at the end.
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Nietzsche said: "I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great
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and impossible." The fact that something seems impossible shouldn't be a reason to not pursue it.
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That's exactly what makes it worth pursuing.
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Where would the courage and greatness be if success was certain and there was no risk?
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The only true failure is shrinking away from life's challenges.
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Being attacked is a sign that you are important enough to be a target.
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should relish the attention and the chance to prove yourself.
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People will try to put the same limitations on you that they put on themselves.
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Don't mistake their insecurities for your ceiling.
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Here's how to get older without getting better.
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Keep relearning the same lesson.
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If you keep making the same mistake over and over, the mistake isn't the problem.
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You are.
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You cannot wish for a strong What if what you're going through isn't hard?
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What if you're just sensitive?
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Railing against how hard something is, or how much time it's taking up, or the difficulty, or the inefficiency, or the fact that you don't know how to do it,
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or the fact that you don't have a high that can sort it, or the fact that people around you don't believe you, or that no one's giving you the support that you want, or that you thought it wouldn't take this long.
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The fact that that is happening is par for the course.
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It is the price of doing business the cost of entry for whatever the thing is
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that you're going about because if it wasn't it wouldn't be happening
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and so much of the pain as far as I can see is you railing against the fact
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that there are difficulties you're going to lose sleep you'll doubt
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whether it'll work you'll stress to make ends meet you won't
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finish your to -do list you'll wonder whether you made the right call
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and have no way to know for years this is what hard feels like and that's okay everything worth doing it is,
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the harder it is.
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The greater the payoff, the greater the hardship.
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If it's hard, good.
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It means no one else will do it.
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More for you.
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Being mean doesn't change people's minds.
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The problem is that so many people spend so much time online
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that they fail to remember that people are all human at the end of the day.
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And treating someone else with a modicum of respect is actually
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a far better way to get them to see your position than flinging at them with fire
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for anyone internally debating weekend plans.
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If you don't want to go, don't go.
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If they care whether you go or not, they don't care about you.
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And if they care about you, they don't care if you go or not.
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Just because you have free time doesn't mean anyone who asks for it is entitled to it.
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Until you win, effort always goes unnoticed.
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Get used to it.
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No one roots for you until everyone
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wrong and strategy was the more
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that somebody complains the less accurate their perspective of the world is
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so complaint is you saying why is the world not behaving in the way
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that I expected it to which essentially identifies
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that you don't have an accurate model of the way
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that the world works there are going to be problems continuously for the rest of time
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and there will never be a day when you don't wake up
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and have to mediate or negotiate or cajole your way Okay,
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so given the fact that these things are unavoidable, why are you complaining about them?
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And why are you so surprised when they happen?
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les

Deze spreekles op niveau B2 is gebaseerd op de video “Quotes you NEED to Hear Part 2”. Deze video bevat 69 zinnen en 796 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 4:40. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 170 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. 90% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is goed te volgen.

Belangrijke woorden in deze video

De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:

WoordUitspraakBetekenis
optimist zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈɑptɪmɪst/optimist
inefficiency zelfstandig naamwoordinefficiëntie
modicum zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈmɑdɪkəm/beetje, weinigje
overestimate werkwoord/ˌəʊvəɹˈɛstɪmeɪt/overschatten
perish werkwoord/ˈpɛɹɪʃ/vergaan, bederven
relish werkwoord/ˈɹɛlɪʃ/genieten
unavoidable bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ˌʌnəˈvɔɪdəbəl/onvermijdelijk, onontkoombaar
unnoticed bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ʌnˈnoʊtɪst/ongemerkt, onopgemerkt
outsider zelfstandig naamwoord/ˌaʊtˈsaɪdəɹ/buitenstaander, outsider
insecurity zelfstandig naamwoordonzekerheid
hardship zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈhɑɹdˌʃɪp/ellende, ondraaglijkheid
underestimate werkwoord/ʌndɚˈɛs.tɪ.meɪt/onderschatten
limitation zelfstandig naamwoord/lɪmɪˈteɪʃən/begrenzing, beperking
greatness zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈɡɹeɪtnəs/grootheid, grootte
insecure bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ɪnsəˈkjʊɹ/onbeveiligd

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

WoordUitspraakBetekenis
wake up werkwoord/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/wakker worden, ontwaken

Zinnen om te herhalen

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

  • Admit it, you aren't like them.
  • If you are insecure, guess what?
  • Don't mistake their insecurities for your ceiling.
  • What if you're just sensitive?
  • If you don't want to go, don't go.

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 32 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals don't, you're, you'll. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

  • De klanken “sh” en “zh”: perish /ˈpɛɹɪʃ/, relish /ˈɹɛlɪʃ/, hardship /ˈhɑɹdˌʃɪp/, limitation /lɪmɪˈteɪʃən/, negotiate /nəˈɡəʊ.ʃi.eɪt/
  • Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: overestimate /ˌəʊvəɹˈɛstɪmeɪt/, paradoxically /ˌpɛɹəˈdɑksɪkli/, unavoidable /ˌʌnəˈvɔɪdəbəl/, underestimate /ʌndɚˈɛs.tɪ.meɪt/, limitation /lɪmɪˈteɪʃən/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

  • /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: greatness /ˈɡɹeɪtnəs/, negotiate /nəˈɡəʊ.ʃi.eɪt/

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 optimist, inefficiency, modicum.

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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