Shadowing Practice: SHADOWING + Speaking Practice = English Fluecy Training - Learn English Speaking with Video

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All right, welcome back English practicer. How you  feeling today? You having a good day? I hope so.
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Let's practice some English. We're going to  read a text. We're going to practice speaking.
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Try to repeat after me. Say the vocabulary and  phrases that you want to remember. Shadow me if you can. Just work on your fluency.  All right, let's jump into the text.
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to find meaning and stability in our lives.
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To find meaning and stability in our lives. That  is in other words to feel that life has purpose and is not constantly changing  in a scary way. So the stability is you know to feel like it's not constantly  changing in a scary way. That's stability.
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So that is to feel that life has purpose and  is not constantly changing in a scary way.
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There's a deep psychological truth  we need to face in order to find meaning and stability in our lives. There's  a deep psychological truth we need to face.
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What is to face? If you face something, you  confront it. You deal with it. You face it.
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We have to believe that something is  more important than just ourselves.
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So in order to find meaning  and stability in our lives, we have to believe that something is  more important than just ourselves.
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In other words, we need to feel connected  to a purpose or cause that is bigger than our own individual wants and needs. I'm  going to say that again. In other words, we need to feel connected to a purpose or cause that  is bigger than our own individual wants and needs.
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This always requires a leap of faith, which means  making a choice to trust or believe in something even when we don't have  complete proof or certainty.
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So, a leap of faith, what's a leap of faith?  That's making a choice to trust or believe in something even when we don't have complete proof  or certainty. We always want proof. We always want certainty, but we can't always have it. In those  situations, you need to take a leap of faith.
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Whether it's religion, belief in God, or  something spiritual, family, close relationships, or a career. Each of us eventually reaches a  moment where we have to make a real commitment.
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Each of us eventually reaches a moment  where we have to make a real commitment.
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You got to make a real commitment at some point.
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A commitment is a serious promise to ourselves  or to others that we will stay with something.
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Stay. If you stay with something, you keep doing  it. You keep trying. even when it's difficult.
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All right, I'm going to say that again. A  commitment is a serious pro promise to ourselves or to others that we will stay with something  and keep trying even when it's difficult.
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Often we have to make this promise without knowing  for sure if it's the perfect or right choice.
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Often we have to make this promise without  knowing for sure. Without knowing for sure if it's the perfect or right choice, air quotes right choice. There is no such thing  as right choice maybe. So that's why right choice.
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Okay. That's where faith becomes so important.  That's where faith becomes so important.
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By faith, we don't only mean religious belief.
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It's not just about religious belief. We don't  only mean religious belief. It can be that, but we also mean the willingness to trust that  our choices can lead to something meaningful.
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We also mean the willingness to trust that  our choices can lead to something meaningful.
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Even when the future is uncertain or confusing.  Even when the future is uncertain or confusing.
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In this sense, faith is part of  every important decision we make.
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In this sense, faith is part of  every important decision we make.
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In the end, nothing in life is completely secular.
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Secular. Do you know this word that it  means totally separate from belief or deeper values? So if something's separate  from religion, usually we say it's secular.
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So in the end, nothing in  life is completely secular, meaning totally separate  from belief or deeper values.
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All of our commitments, whether to people, work,  or ideas, are in their own way acts of faith.
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All of our commitments are acts of faith.  All of our commitments, whether to people, work, or ideas, are in  their own way acts of faith.
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We decide to care, to invest our time and energy and to keep going even though we can  never be 100% sure of the outcome.
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We can never know what the result will be. Even  though we can never be 100% sure of the outcome.
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But we decide to care to  invest our time and energy and to keep going even though we can  never be 100% sure of the outcome.
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That quiet act of trusting and continuing is what gives our life structure,  direction and a sense of real meaning.
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So what gives your life structure? What gives  your life direction? What gives your life a sense of real meaning? That quiet act of trusting and  continuing is what gives our lives structure, direction and a sense of real meaning. All  right, that's the text. Remember this is a English speaking practice. Sometimes you guys  judge me on the text and not on the practice.
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So, I had to remind you just now we are practicing  English and now we are going to practice shadowing nonstop. We're going to say the text. Let's  say it together. I'll keep a nice pace for you to follow along and say it with  me. Are you ready? Here we go.
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to find meaning and stability in our lives.  That is to feel that life has purpose and is not constantly changing in a scary way. There's  a deep psychological truth we need to face.
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We have to believe that something is more  important than just ourselves. In other words, we need to feel connected to a purpose or cause that  is bigger than our own individual wants and needs.
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This always requires a leap of  faith, which means making a choice to trust or believe in something even when  we don't have complete proof or certainty.
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Whether it's religion, something spiritual,  family, close relationships, or a career, each of us eventually reaches a moment  where we have to make a real commitment.
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A commitment is a serious  promise to ourselves or to others that we will stay with something and  keep trying even when it's difficult.
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Often we have to make this promise without knowing  for sure if it's the perfect or right choice.
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That's where faith becomes so important. By  faith, we don't only mean religious belief.
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We also mean the willingness to trust that  our choices can lead to something meaningful.
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Even when the future is uncertain or confusing.
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In this sense, faith is part of every  important decision we make. In the end, nothing in life is completely secular, meaning  totally separate from belief or deeper values.
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All of our commitments, whether to people, work,  or ideas, are in their own way acts of faith.
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We decide to care, to invest our  time and energy, and to keep going even though we can never be 100% sure of  the outcome. That quiet act of trusting and continuing is what gives our lives structure,  direction, and a sense of real meaning.
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Boom. Good workout. Way to go. Way to exercise  those English speaking muscles with me again today. Keep moving forward one step at a time.  I'll see you in the next English speaking practice

Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les

Deze spreekles op niveau B2 is gebaseerd op de video “SHADOWING + Speaking Practice = English Fluecy Training”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: faith, choice, commitment, meaning, belief. Deze video bevat 52 zinnen en 1269 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 11:53. De spreker praat langzaam, ongeveer 107 woorden per minuut, zodat je tijd hebt om elke klank na te doen. 88% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is goed te volgen. 9 van de 52 zinnen zijn vragen, dus het is goede oefening voor vraagintonatie en korte antwoorden.

Belangrijke woorden in deze video

De 9 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:

WoordUitspraakBetekenis
leap werkwoord/ˈliːp/springen, wippen
secular bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ˈsɛkjʊlə/seculier, wereldlijk
certainty zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈsɝtn̩ti/zekerheid
confuse werkwoord/kənˈfjuːz/verwarren, in de war brengen
meaningful bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ˈmiː.nɪŋ.fl̩/zinvol
fluency zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈfluːənsi/vlotheid
confront werkwoord/kənˈfɹʌnt/confronteren
vocabulary zelfstandig naamwoord/vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/woordenschat, vocabulaire
workout zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈwɝk.aʊ̯t/training, oefening

Zinnen om te herhalen

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

  • How you  feeling today?
  • You having a good day?
  • We're going to  read a text.
  • What gives  your life direction?
  • What gives your life a sense of real meaning?

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 14 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals don't, we're, I'll. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

  • /w/ — met ronde lippen: willingness /ˈwɪlɪŋnəs/, workout /ˈwɝk.aʊ̯t/

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 leap, secular, certainty.

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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