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I have a new hobby.
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I am collecting stories that I can actually prove are told among the Russian people.
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They make them up themselves, they tell them between themselves, reveals they've got a great sense of humor, and they've also got a little cynical attitude about things in their country.
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The story was an American and a Russian arguing about their two countries, and the American said, look, in my country I can walk into the Oval Office, I can pound the President's desk and say,
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Mr. President, I don't like the way you're running our country.
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And the Russians said, I can do that.
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The Americans said, you can?
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He says, yes, I can go into the Kremlin, to the General Secretary's office, pound his desk and say, Mr. General Secretary, I don't like the way President Reagan's running his country.
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I didn't tell this one to Gorbachev.
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you know there's a 10 year delay delay in the soviet union of delivery of an automobile
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and you go through a quite a process when you're ready to buy
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and then you put up the money in advance this man he laid down his money
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and then the fellow he was in
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that was in charge said to him okay come back in 10 years
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and get your car and he said morning or afternoon And the fellow behind the counter said,
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Well, ten years from now, what difference does it make?
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And he said, well, the plumber's coming in the morning.
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Less than one family out of seven in the Soviet Union owns an automobile.
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Most of the automobiles are driven by the bureaucrats.
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So an order went out one day to the police that anyone caught speeding.
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Anyone, no matter who, gets a ticket.
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Well, Gorbachev came out of his country home, his dacha.
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He was late getting to the Kremlin.
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There was his limousine and driver waiting.
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He told the driver to get in the back seat he'd drive, and down the road he went.
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They passed two motorcycle cops.
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One took out after him.
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And pretty soon he's back with his buddy, and his buddy says, Well, did you give him a ticket?
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And he said, No. Well, he said, Why not?
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Oh, he said, Too important.
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Well, he said, we're told to give anybody a ticket, no matter who it is.
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Oh, he said, no, no, this one was, I could, well, he said, who was it?
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He said, I couldn't recognize him, but his driver was Gorbachev.
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One of the heads of state
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that I met with on this visit told me the story about the two fellows in the Soviet Union
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that were walking down the street, and one of them says, have we really achieved full communism?
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Is this it?
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Is this now full communism?
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And the other one said, oh, hell no, things are going to get a lot worse.

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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les

Deze video bevat 39 zinnen en 488 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 2:45. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 177 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. 87% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is goed te volgen.

Belangrijke woorden in deze video

15 woorden uit de video die het leren waard zijn, met uitspraak en betekenis:

WoordUitspraakBetekenis
automobile zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈɔː.tə.məˌbil/automobiel, auto
desk zelfstandig naamwoord/dɛsk/bureau, schrijftafel
buddy/ˈbʌdi/maat, maatje
delay zelfstandig naamwoord/dɪˈleɪ̯/vertraging, oponthoud
communism zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈkɒmjᵿnɪz(ə)m/communisme
argue werkwoord/ˈɑɹ.ɡju/redetwisten
reveal werkwoord/ɹɪˈviːl/onthullen, zich ontpoppen
collect werkwoord/ˈkɑlɪkt/verzamelen, opstapelen
cop zelfstandig naamwoord/kɑp/smeris
motorcycle zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈmoʊtɚˌsaɪkəl/motorfiets, motor
hobby zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈhɑ.bi/hobby, vrijetijdsbesteding
humour zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈhjuːmɚ/humor
cynical bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ˈsɪnɪkəl/cynisch
bureaucrat zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈbjʊɹəkɹæt/bureaucraat
dacha zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈdɑ.t͡ʃə/datsja

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

WoordBetekenis
go out werkwoordnaar buiten gaan

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 10 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals don't, they've, you're. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

  • Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: automobile /ˈɔː.tə.məˌbil/, motorcycle /ˈmoʊtɚˌsaɪkəl/

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 automobile, desk, buddy.

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