Shadowing Practice: Rocks in the brains - Learn English Speaking with Video

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How do you deal with problematic men in the workplace?
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Yay!
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Who asked this question?
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Hi.
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What's your name, my love?
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I'm Smith.
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Smith!
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Smith, darling.
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Is this from personal experience?
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Yes.
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OK, can you give me a little more information?
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What kind of problematic men?
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Because there's lots of varieties.
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I work with men who think they're smart.
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Oh.
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Yeah.
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OK, that's not super specific.
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I'm a geophysicist.
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A geophysicist?
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Shit.
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Yeah!
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So they got rocks in the brain.
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Come on, come on, rocks in the brain?
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How, how very dare you not laugh at that?
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I'm pissed now, how dare you Edmonton?
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You guys, I think this whole group is from Red Deer, okay.
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Clearly.
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Okay, so you're geologists and they all, they want to pretend they're more smart than they really are?
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Yeah.
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And how does that manifest action wise?
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They like talking to me like I'm very, very dumb.
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Oh, okay.
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I'd like to pick above average.
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Oh, okay.
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Okay, so step one, you gotta fix your confidence level.
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Thank you.
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I feel like maybe that's part of it is you just gotta be like, fuck you, dude.
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Confidence, confidence.
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So, so what kind, give me like a sentence, a specific sentence they would say to try to put you down intellectually.
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I work with airplanes, so a lot of them ask me if I've been in one before.
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They don't think you've been in an airplane.
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No, or a helicopter.
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Oh, well, that's normal.
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Raise your head if you've been in a helicopter.
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There's, oh, well, shit, what?
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Is that an Edmonton thing?
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Okay, this is the weirdest group I've ever had.
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Okay, one of my favorite things to do
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when somebody's kind of looking down on me and trying to make me feel small, they'll go, oh, you know, oh, have you ever been in an airplane?
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And I always go just like, it's so funny, it's so funny that you would think I wouldn't.
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What a funny joke.
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Well, my other favorite, if you just make them say it over and over again.
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Oh, so have you ever been in a plane?
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You go, I'm sorry, can you ask me that one more time?
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I'm sorry, I don't think I'm understanding what you're saying.
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Can you ask me one more time?
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And eventually they hear how much of a fucking asshole they are.

Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les

Deze video bevat 57 zinnen en 400 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 2:04. De spreker praat snel, ongeveer 194 woorden per minuut, dus reken op verbonden en ingeslikte klanken. 86% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken.

Belangrijke woorden in deze video

15 minder gangbare woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:

  • airplane /ˈɛɹˌpleɪ̯n/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — vliegtuig. A powered heavier-than-air aircraft with fixed wings: a fixed-wing aircraft with at least one engine or electric motor.
  • dare /dɛ(ə)ɹ/ (werkwoord) — durven, wagen. To have enough courage (to do something).
  • helicopter /ˈheliːˌkɔptə(ɹ)/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — helikopter, wentelwiek. An aircraft that is borne along by one or more sets of long rotating blades which allow it to hover, move in any direction including reverse, or land; and…
  • problematic /ˌpɹɑ.bləˈmæt.ɪk/ (bijvoeglijk naamwoord) — problematisch, twijfelachtig. Difficult to overcome, solve, or decide.
  • pretend /pɹəˈtɛnd/ (werkwoord) — voorgeven. To speak or behave so as to give a false or simulated appearance.
  • darling /ˈdɑɹlɪŋ/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — geliefde, liefje. Often used as an affectionate term of address: a person who is very dear to one.
  • workplace /ˈwɝkˌpleɪs/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — werkplek, arbeidsplaats. The place where someone works.
  • manifest /ˈmæn.ɪ.fɛst/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — manifest, vrachtbrief. A list or invoice of the passengers or goods being carried by a commercial vehicle or ship.
  • geophysicist (zelfstandig naamwoord) — geofysicus. A physicist who specializes in geophysics.
  • geologist /d͡ʒiˈɑːlədʒɪst/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — geoloog, geologe. A person whose occupation specializes in the science of geology, especially at a professional or academic level.
  • confidence /ˈkɑn.fɪ.dəns/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — zelfvertrouwen. Self-assurance.
  • sentence /ˈsɛn.təns/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — veroordeling. The judicial order for a punishment to be imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
  • favourite /ˈfeɪv.ɹɪt/ (bijvoeglijk naamwoord) — favoriet, lievelings-. Most-liked. (In other words, [person]'s favorite [noun] = the [noun] that [person] likes the most.)
  • joke /ˈd͡ʒoʊ̯k/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — mop, grap. An amusing story.
  • laugh /læf/ (werkwoord) — lachen. To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and…

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

  • come on /ˌkʌm ˈɒn/ — kom op, kom aan. Come along with me; join me in going.
  • deal with (werkwoord) — behandelen. To handle verbally or in some form of artistic expression; to address or discuss as a subject.
  • look down on (werkwoord) — neerkijken op. To regard or treat as inferior.

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 22 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, don't, gotta. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

  • Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: helicopter /ˈheliːˌkɔptə(ɹ)/, problematic /ˌpɹɑ.bləˈmæt.ɪk/, geologist /d͡ʒiˈɑːlədʒɪst/

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 airplane, dare, helicopter.

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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