Shadowing Practice: Santana's Acid Trip - Learn English Speaking with Video

Now, Carlos, I know you've told this story a million times, but I have to ask.

It's been reported that every time you look at your performance at Woodstock and the Woodstock documentary, you either flinch or avert your eyes.

Why?

What is it about that performance that makes you do that?

Well when we landed, we were in this helicopter and I never seen so many, it was like an ocean of hair and teeth and arms

and when we landed the first person that I saw was Jerry Garcia and he says, what time are you going to go on?

I said, apparently two bands after you and he goes, well they make yourself comfortable, it's like 12.30 in the afternoon,

we're not going to go on until like 1 in the morning.

And I go, oh, I guess we're going to go around 3 o'clock in the morning.

Yeah, in the meantime, you want some of this?

And I was like, sure.

You know, I just did the math between now.

Yeah, I'll be fine by then.

What was it?

It was acid.

It was LSD.

And so I went, and as soon as I took it,

it was like, everything became another dimension.

And then I see this phase coming and saying, if you don't play now, you're not going to play at all.

You need to go on right now.

And I'm like, oh my God.

okay, you know, I thought I had six, seven hours to recuperate from because, you know, it's kind of like a roller coaster.

You know, you go through this.

And so I said, okay, take a deep breath.

And I discovered a mantra back then without even knowing, God, please help me.

Help me to stay in tune and in time.

And I promise I'll never do this again.

Sure.

So I went up there and so when I started playing, of course, the guitar neck,

the neck and the guitar started wavering, you know, like a snake.

And I was like, oh, uh-oh.

So I just started making faces because I was trying to keep it tame, you know, I was trying to keep it from slithering all over the place.

When I first saw the movie, Jimi Hendrix lady took me to see it.

He had left that morning for Maui.

So she says, hey man, what are you doing?

I says, oh, you know, just got a day off.

Well, go unpack your stuff and come.

I want to take you to this movie.

What movie?

I says, what's that?

What's that?

They made a movie?

Yeah, wait till you see it.

We saw it last night with Jimmy and when you guys came on, you guys freaked him out.

I go, really?

He goes, he loves your energy, man.

He loves your performance and he's like,

so you know it's such a beautiful badge of honor that someone so imperial like Jimi Hendrix would dig our performance.

I feel really grateful because it takes a lot of courage to go in front of 550,000 people

at the peak of this mine expensive,

kind of like a shaman going through from, anyway.

Fortunately it was successful.

It was more than successful.

I mean, it was masterful.

I know you're a modest guy, but you stole the show.

I give the credit to God, man, because that's what I keep praying for.

Always, just like with diligence, please, please, please.

I trusted that my fingers knew where to go and what to do.

What I was calling up to make the connection was with my spirit and God, so that God would say,

okay, take a deep breath, take a deep breath, and I'm going to guide you, navigate through all this mind hallucination stuff.

Because, you know, it's, and then I began to really like it.

I used to do it here in New York a lot.

But I thought you promised God you wouldn't do it again.

You didn't keep your promise?

Well, I didn't do that specific acid.

You know, I took some other, like, a mezcal and any peyote and other kind of stuff.

Actually, nowadays, I don't think people are, maybe under supervision, I'm not endorsing it,

but I would say that even Cary Grant under supervision needed to, because when you take it, it's also like a snake shedding all beliefs.

You know, under supervision, it's actually very therapeutically healing for you.

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Deze spreekles op niveau B2 is gebaseerd op de video “Santana's Acid Trip”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: performance, movie, supervision, breath, deep. Deze video bevat 69 zinnen en 748 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 4:43. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 159 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. 82% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken. 12 van de 69 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:

Woord	Uitspraak	Betekenis
supervision zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˌs(j)uːpəˈvɪʒən/	supervisie, toezicht
flinch werkwoord	/ˈflɪnt͡ʃ/	terugdeinzen
hallucination zelfstandig naamwoord	/həˌluːsɪˈneɪʃən/	waanbeeld, hallucinatie
shaman zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈʃɑːmən/	sjamaan, bonuman
diligence zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈdɪlɪd͡ʒəns/	toewijding, vasthoudendheid
tame werkwoord	/teɪm/	temmen
endorse werkwoord	/ɪnˈdoɹs/	ondersteunen, aanbevelen
navigate werkwoord	/ˈnæv.ɪ.ɡeɪt/	navigeren
fortunately bijwoord	/ˈfɔɹ.t͡ʃə.nɪt.li/	gelukkig, gelukkigerwijs
roller zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈɹoʊlɚ/	roller
dimension zelfstandig naamwoord	/daɪˈmɛn.ʃən/	dimensie, afmeting
modest bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/ˈmɑdəst/	bescheiden, ingetogen
meantime zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈmiːntaɪm/	ondertussen
nowadays bijwoord	/ˈnaʊ.ə.deɪz/	heden, momenteel
heal werkwoord	/ˈhiːl/	genezen, helen

Zinnen om te herhalen

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

What is it about that performance that makes you do that?
I says, what's that?
You didn't keep your promise?

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 15 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, didn't, don't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

De “th”-klanken: slither /ˈslɪðɚ/, therapeutically /ˌθɛɹ.əˈpju.tɪk.li/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/
De klanken “sh” en “zh”: supervision /ˌs(j)uːpəˈvɪʒən/, hallucination /həˌluːsɪˈneɪʃən/, shaman /ˈʃɑːmən/, dimension /daɪˈmɛn.ʃən/
Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: supervision /ˌs(j)uːpəˈvɪʒən/, hallucination /həˌluːsɪˈneɪʃən/, recuperate /ɹɪˈk(j)uːpəˌɹeɪt/, therapeutically /ˌθɛɹ.əˈpju.tɪk.li/, fortunately /ˈfɔɹ.t͡ʃə.nɪt.li/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: badge /bæd͡ʒ/, nowadays /ˈnaʊ.ə.deɪz/
/æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: mescal /mɛˈskæl/, unpack /ʌnˈpæk/, navigate /ˈnæv.ɪ.ɡeɪt/, badge /bæd͡ʒ/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/

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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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