Shadowing Practice: SHE IS NOT OKAY - Learn English Speaking with Video

Les maken...
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Let me recap.
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Dad had knee surgery.
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Got dad home from knee surgery.
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One hour later, fell in a parking lot after a vagrant homeless man scared at me.
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Ended up in an air cast and on crutches.
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Okay.
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Then the night after that, got food poisoning.
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Yeah, it was a whole hole.
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Now, here I am yesterday after thinking there's nothing left in my body.
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I have to go to the bathroom.
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I'm on the 401, which is a highway.
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Okay.
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I'm coming off the highway.
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There is a rest stop near my house.
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I'm trying to get there.
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I don't want to go there.
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The bathrooms there are disgusting.
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Okay.
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I get there.
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I pull my car up to the front.
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I am clenched.
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I'm clenched to another universe.
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I jet through the convenience store.
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He says, hello.
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I don't even look at him.
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I get to the bathroom.
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What is there?
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Every Mennonite woman in the world and their children.
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There's 25 people in this bathroom.
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I'm standing there.
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I go, are you waiting?
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She's like, you can go ahead.
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I go to the door.
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Oh, I know why the door was the only one that was open.
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It wouldn't close.
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I have to sit down, hands against the door, brace as I put on a goddamn orchestra, a musical for these people.
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So people are banging.
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I think I need to shut this door.
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I need to concentrate.
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I stand up.
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I lift the door a little bit.
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It pops it so I can get the thing slid into the door.
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I sit down.
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I put my heads in my hands.
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I'm mortified.
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People are slamming doors on each side of me.
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It's been two minutes.
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I look up.
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My door is open.
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My door is all the way open from people slamming their doors.
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But what's standing right in front of me, like a seven-year-old Mennonite child that is a man,
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a boy child watching me shit my brains out in this washroom uh anyway so that's what happened yesterday

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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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