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Can I tell you about the worst thing I ever did as a teacher?
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For twelve years, I taught English in London.
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And I was obsessed with fixing accents.
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My students had to sound British, or they'd fail.
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One of my students was a brilliant young engineer.
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His vocabulary was wonderful, and his ideas were clear.
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But I kept interrupting him to correct his vowels.
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One day, he just stopped speaking in class.
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Weeks later, I asked him why.
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He said, "Every time I open my mouth, you hear mistakes."
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"You stopped hearing me."
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That sentence has stayed with me ever since.
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So I started reading the research.
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And here's what surprised me.
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Roughly three out of four English speakers today learned it as a second language!
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English doesn't belong to London or New York anymore.
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It belongs to everyone who uses it.
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Researchers have found something else that matters.
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A strong accent doesn't automatically make you hard to understand.
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What matters is clarity: stress, rhythm, and a steady pace.
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You can sound like yourself and still be perfectly clear.
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Today, that student leads a team of forty engineers.
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He gives presentations all over the world!
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And he still has his accent.
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Nobody cares. They're too busy listening to his ideas.
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So if you're learning English, please hear this.
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Work on being clear, not on becoming someone else.
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Your accent tells the story of where you've been.
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It isn't a mistake. It's a map!
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Thank you.

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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les

Deze spreekles op niveau B2 is gebaseerd op de video “SEtalk: Your Accent Is Not a Mistake”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: accent, English, student, clear. Deze video bevat 30 zinnen en 246 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 1:45. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 140 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. 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 11 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:

WoordUitspraakBetekenis
accent zelfstandig naamwoord/ækˈsɛnt/accent, klemtoon
belong werkwoord/bɪˈlɒŋ/thuishoren, horen
roughly bijwoord/ˈɹʌf.li/grofweg
rhythm zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈɹɪð.əm/ritme
distress zelfstandig naamwoord/dɪˈstɹɛs/druk, stress
researcher zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈɹiˌsɝ.t͡ʃɚ/onderzoeker
clarity zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈklæɹ.ɪ.ti/helderheid, klaarheid
vocabulary zelfstandig naamwoord/vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/woordenschat, vocabulaire
interrupt werkwoord/ˌɪntəˈɹʌpt/afbreken, onderbreken
obsess werkwoord/əbˈsɛs/obsederen
vowel zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈvaʊ.əl/klinker, klinkerklank

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 7 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals doesn't, isn't, they'd. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

  • /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: accent /ækˈsɛnt/, clarity /ˈklæɹ.ɪ.ti/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/

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 accent, belong, roughly.

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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