Shadowing Practice: Rewilding: Should We Bring Back Wolves? - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Right, everyone, let's make a start, shall we?
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Tonight's question is whether wolves belong back here.
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Belong? They've been gone three hundred years, and good riddance.
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Well, that's one way to open a debate!
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But hear me out before you reach for the pitchforks.
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In Yellowstone, wolves were reintroduced in the mid-nineties.
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Elk stopped lingering by the rivers, and willows bounced back!
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Then the beavers returned and started building dams again.
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And how much of that is wishful thinking?
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Well... fair point. The scale of the cascade is still debated.
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Hunters, bears and drought played their part too.
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So the wolves get all the credit. Typical.
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Look, I've got four hundred ewes on that hillside.
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Lambing's hard enough without a predator at the gate.
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You won't be the one finding carcasses at dawn!
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I'm not dismissing that. Losses do happen, and they hurt.
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But in most of Europe, disease and weather kill far more sheep.
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Ugh, statistics won't console me when it's my flock!
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Perhaps we could talk about what would actually help?
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In parts of Europe, farmers are compensated for verified kills.
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Compensated? And who decides what counts as verified?
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Independent assessors... and frankly, payouts can be painfully slow.
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Prevention works better, though! Guardian dogs, night enclosures, fladry!
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Fladry? That sounds like something you'd order at a pub.
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Ha! It's a line of flapping flags along a fence.
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Wolves are wary of it, at least for a while.
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Hmm... and who pays for the dogs and the fencing?
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Any serious scheme should fund that upfront. Non-negotiable.
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Well... I'm not saying yes. I'm saying I'd listen.
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That's more than I expected from tonight, honestly!
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I'll take it! Shall we visit some shepherds in Italy together?
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Only if you're paying for lunch.
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Right, on that note, tea and biscuits are at the back!

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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les

Deze spreekles op niveau C1 is gebaseerd op de video “Rewilding: Should We Bring Back Wolves?”. Deze video bevat 33 zinnen en 304 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 2:16. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 134 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. Slechts 74% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is pittig. 9 van de 33 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
compensate werkwoord/ˈkɑm.pənˌseɪt/compenseren, goedmaken
biscuit zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈbɪs.kɪt/biscuit, koekje
carcass zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈkɑɹkəs/karkas, kreng
cascade zelfstandig naamwoord/kæsˈkeɪd/waterval
linger werkwoord/ˈlɪŋɡɚ/treuzelen, talmen
pitchfork zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈpɪt͡ʃˌfɔɹk/hooivork, mestvork
wary bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ˈwɛɚ.i/behoedzaam
beaver zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈbivɚ/bever
willow zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈwɪloʊ/wilg
flock zelfstandig naamwoord/flɑk/kudde
predator zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈpɹɛd.ə.tɚ/roofdier n roofvis, predator
dismiss werkwoord/dɪsˈmɪs/ontslaan, de laan uitsturen
shepherd zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈʃɛpəɹd/herder, schaapherder
drought zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈdɹaʊ̯t/droogte
bounce werkwoord/baʊns/stuiteren, ketsen

Zinnen om te herhalen

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

  • Right, everyone, let's make a start, shall we?
  • Look, I've got four hundred ewes on that hillside.
  • You won't be the one finding carcasses at dawn!
  • Ugh, statistics won't console me when it's my flock!
  • Perhaps we could talk about what would actually help?

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 11 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, won't, I'd. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

  • De klanken “sh” en “zh”: negotiable /nɪˈɡoʊʃəbəl/, wishful /ˈwɪʃfəl/, enclosure /ɛnˈkloʊʒəɹ/, shepherd /ˈʃɛpəɹd/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

  • Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: cascade /kæsˈkeɪd/, hillside /ˈhɪlˌsaɪd/, shepherd /ˈʃɛpəɹd/
  • /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: cascade /kæsˈkeɪd/, frankly /fɹæŋkli/
  • /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: linger /ˈlɪŋɡɚ/, negotiable /nɪˈɡoʊʃəbəl/

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 compensate, biscuit, carcass.

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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