Shadowing Practice: Repeat-After-Me + Shadowing Practice | 'TH' Sounds in English - Learn English Speaking with Video
Les maken...
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Hey guys!
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Welcome or welcome back to my channel.
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I'm Claire, a native speaker from the US,
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but I'm also an English teacher and I'm a professionally trained singer.
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So I have been trained in the international phonetic alphabet.
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And if you don't know what that is,
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it is the alphabet that covers all the sounds that exist internationally for every language.
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So of course, Some languages do not use certain sounds that others do,
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but if you learn the phonetic symbols that match the sounds,
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especially ones that don't exist in your native language,
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that can really help you to better understand those sounds every time you run into them.
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Now, one of the trickiest sounds
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that non-native speakers struggle with in English is the voiced and unvoiced sound that is usually represented by TH.
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So the TH sound in English is formed by placing your tongue between your teeth
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and lightly pressing the tip of your tongue to the bottom of your front teeth.
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To achieve the voiced TH sound,
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gently place your fingers on your throat and feel the vibrations when you make the sound.
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So you can feel that vibrating.
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The unvoiced th sound you won't be able to feel any vibrations on your throat.
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So for that one you're just pushing air through the teeth and the tongue without bringing the vocal cords together.
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So without those vibrations.
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So to help us practice both of these voiced and unvoiced TH sounds in English,
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I'm going to take you through a repeat after me and then shadowing practice.
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So it's pretty simple.
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First, you will just repeat after me and then you will say it
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with me at the same time matching my pronunciation and inflection.
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So that's a practice we call shadowing.
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If you aren't familiar with my other shadowing videos,
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I have a playlist here on my channel that I will link here.
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So go check that out if you found this practice useful.
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All right, let's get started.
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English made easy with Claire.
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So first, repeat after me.
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This year, this year, our first word here uses the voiced TH sound.
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So you will feel the vibrations.
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This, this year.
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My mother wanted to do something special for her birthday.
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Good.
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So here we have another voiced TH sound.
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Mother.
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Mother.
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So this one's a little bit faster because it's in the middle of the word,
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but you still should feel those vibrations.
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Mother.
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Um, mother.
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And then the second word with TH uses the unvoiced sound.
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And again, this one is quick because it comes in the middle of the word.
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Birthday.
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Birthday.
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No vibrations.
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Birth.
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Birthday.
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Okay, let's say that whole sentence again.
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Repeat after me.
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This year my mother wanted to do something special for her birthday.
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The first thing she said was...
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The first thing, thing, unvoiced,
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the first thing she said was,
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I don't want a big party.
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I don't want a big party.
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Instead, we drove through the countryside to a quiet little spa.
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Threw, through.
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That's an unvoiced TH sound.
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Instead, we drove through the countryside to a quiet little spa.
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Repeat again.
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Even though it was simple.
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Though, though.
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This word looks a lot like through,
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but it has the voiced TH sound.
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So we'll feel that here.
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Though.
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Though.
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Even though it was simple,
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it felt like the perfect getaway.
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It felt like the perfect getaway.
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In the afternoon, in the afternoon,
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we decided to sunbathe by the pool.
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So just after initially saying this word sunbathe,
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can you guess if it's voiced or unvoiced?
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Say it a couple times to yourself.
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This one is voiced.
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We can feel the vibration.
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Sunbathe.
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Sunbathe.
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And it might not be so obvious because it comes at the end of the word.
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We wouldn't generally in rapid speech really pronounce it slowly bathe, right?
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But this one is voiced.
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Sunbathe.
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Sunbathe.
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In the afternoon, we decided to sunbathe by the pool.
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Later on, she enjoyed a long, relaxing bath.
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So here, bath looks very similar to bathe,
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but they have different pronunciations.
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Bath uses the unvoiced TH.
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Bath.
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Bath.
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Later on, she enjoyed a long relaxing bath.
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At the end of the day,
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at the end of the day,
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my mother smiled and said, smiled.
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That's an often mispronounced word.
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Smiled.
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This was exactly what I needed.
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This was exactly what I needed.
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Repeat the whole sentence after me.
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At the end of the day,
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my mother smiled and said,
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this was exactly what I needed.
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Okay, now for our shadowing practice.
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So you are going to say the whole story with me at the same time.
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Repeat this part of the video as many times as you like until you feel comfortable,
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especially with the voiced and unvoiced TH sound.
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Here we go.
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This year, my mother wanted to do something special for her birthday.
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The first thing she said was,
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I don't want a big party.
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Instead, we drove through the countryside to a quiet little spa.
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Even though it was simple,
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it felt like the perfect getaway.
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In the afternoon, we decided to sunbathe by the pool.
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Later on, she enjoyed a long, relaxing bath.
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At the end of the day,
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my mother smiled and said,
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this was exactly what I needed.
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All right, so I hope that repeat after me
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and shadowing practice helped you a little bit better to understand the th sounds in English
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and the difference between the voiced and unvoiced.
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It's a really tricky sound if you don't have it in your native language,
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so don't be discouraged if you aren't getting it immediately after this video.
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Like I said, you can repeat this video as many times as you need
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and practice slowly trying the different sounds on your own.
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And over time, the more shadowing practice you do,
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the more comfortable and confident you will be in producing these sounds.
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Let me know in the comments if you have any other pronunciation requests for future videos like this.
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Of course, if you are a member of my YouTube channel,
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you get priority reply.
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So click the join button below to find out more about that.
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Give me a like and subscribe to my channel so that you don't miss out on my future shadowing practice videos.
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And I will see you in the next one.
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Bye.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau B2 is gebaseerd op de video “Repeat-After-Me + Shadowing Practice”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: sound, voiced, unvoiced, mother, repeat. Deze video bevat 141 zinnen en 1071 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 11:16. De spreker praat langzaam, ongeveer 95 woorden per minuut, zodat je tijd hebt om elke klank na te doen. 84% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| sunbathe werkwoord | /ˈsʌnbeɪð/ | zonnebaden, zonnen |
| pronunciation zelfstandig naamwoord | /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/ | uitspraak |
| countryside zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈkʌn.tɹiˌsaɪd/ | platteland, buitengebied |
| bathe werkwoord | /beɪð/ | zich baden, zich wassen |
| phonetic bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /fəˈnɛt.ɪk/ | fonetisch |
| alphabet zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈæl.fəˌbɛt/ | ABC, alfabet |
| tricky bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈtɹɪk.i/ | netelig, netelige |
| inflection zelfstandig naamwoord | /ɪnˈflɛkʃən/ | flexie |
| vibrate werkwoord | /ˈvaɪ.bɹeɪt/ | trillen |
| discourage werkwoord | /dɪsˈkɝɪd͡ʒ/ | ontmoedigen |
| playlist zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈpleɪˌlɪst/ | afspeellijst, playlist |
| pronounce werkwoord | /pɹəˈnaʊns/ | uitspreken, verklaren |
| cord zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈkoɹd/ | touw, koord |
| subscribe werkwoord | /səbˈskɹaɪb/ | abonneren |
| gently bijwoord | /ˈd͡ʒɛntli/ | zachtjes, voorzichtig |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Betekenis |
|---|---|
| find out werkwoord | ontdekken, onderzoeken |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 18 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals don't, I'm, aren't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De “th”-klanken: sunbathe /ˈsʌnbeɪð/, bathe /beɪð/
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: vibration /vaɪˈbɹeɪʃən/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, inflection /ɪnˈflɛkʃən/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: countryside /ˈkʌn.tɹiˌsaɪd/, discourage /dɪsˈkɝɪd͡ʒ/, cord /ˈkoɹd/, subscribe /səbˈskɹaɪb/
Zo oefen je met deze video
- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
- Spreek zin voor zin na op normale snelheid en herhaal elke zin tot je ritme gelijk is aan dat van de spreker.
- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als sunbathe, pronunciation, countryside.
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.