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How many of you finished a whole book last month?
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Now, how many of you read the news on your phone this morning?
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I thought so.
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Most of us read more words than ever, yet we read them differently.
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Two years ago, I picked up a novel I'd loved as a teenager.
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I'd read it three times when I was younger,
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so I couldn't wait to start again.
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But after two pages, I'd already checked my phone twice.
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I kept skipping whole paragraphs, which had never happened to me before.
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By the end of the evening, I'd given up, and I felt ashamed.
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It was as if my brain had forgotten how to stay still.
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It turns out I'm not alone.
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When researchers tracked people's eyes as they read online,
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they found something rather worrying.
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Most people read the first few lines, then slid down the left side.
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The pattern looked like a letter F, so it was named the F-pattern.
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Skimming is fine for emails, but it's not how we understand ideas.
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So, does it matter whether we read on paper or on a screen?
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In 2018, a huge review brought together fifty-four studies,
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which had involved over a hundred and seventy thousand readers.
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The review showed that people understood factual texts better on paper.
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Surprisingly, the gap wasn't getting smaller, and it was actually growing!
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In another study, readers were given the same short mystery story,
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and half of them read it on an e-reader.
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Afterwards, the e-reader group struggled to put the events in order.
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Researchers think paper gives our memory a kind of map.
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You can feel how far into the story you are,
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and that helps you remember what happened.
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So I set myself a simple rule.
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Every evening, I read on paper for twenty minutes,
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while my phone stayed in another room.
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The first week was painful, and I kept reaching for it.
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By the third week, I'd finished that old novel,
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and I loved it all over again!
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I'm not saying we should throw away our phones.
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But if you gave deep reading just twenty minutes a day,
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you might be surprised at what comes back.
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Your attention isn't broken.
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It's just out of practice.
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Thank you.

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Deze spreekles op niveau B2 is gebaseerd op de video “SEtalk: Why Deep Reading Still Matters”. Deze video bevat 40 zinnen en 377 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 2:13. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 170 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. 83% 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 14 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:

WoordUitspraakBetekenis
reader zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈɹi.dɚ/lezer, lezeres
researcher zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈɹiˌsɝ.t͡ʃɚ/onderzoeker
mystery zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈmɪs.t(ə.)ɹi/mysterie
afterwards bijwoord/ˈæf.tɚ.wɚdz/nadien, achteraf
painful bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ˈpeɪn.fl̩/moeizaam, smartelijk
slide zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈslaɪ̯d/glijbaan, schuifaf
differently bijwoord/ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/verschillend, anders
skip werkwoord/skɪp/huppelen
surprisingly bijwoord/səˈpɹaɪzɪŋli/verrassend
teenager zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈtiːnˌeɪ̯d͡ʒə/tiener, adolescent
ashamed bijvoeglijk naamwoord/əˈʃeɪmd/beschaamd
paragraph zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈpæɹəɡɹæf/alinea, paragraaf
factual bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ˈfæk.tʃ(u)əl/feitelijk
skim werkwoord/skɪm/afromen

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

WoordBetekenis
come back werkwoordterugkomen
give up werkwoordzich overgeven
pick up werkwoordoppakken, optillen
throw away werkwoordweggooien
turn out werkwoorduitvallen, resulteren

Zinnen om te herhalen

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

  • How many of you finished a whole book last month?
  • It turns out I'm not alone.
  • I'm not saying we should throw away our phones.

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 10 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'd, I'm, couldn't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

  • Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: differently /ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/, surprisingly /səˈpɹaɪzɪŋli/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

  • Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: afterwards /ˈæf.tɚ.wɚdz/, slide /ˈslaɪ̯d/, ashamed /əˈʃeɪmd/
  • /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: afterwards /ˈæf.tɚ.wɚdz/, paragraph /ˈpæɹəɡɹæf/, factual /ˈfæk.tʃ(u)əl/

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 reader, researcher, mystery.

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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