Shadowing Practice: Steve Jobs Speech - Best Motivational Video - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Music It's
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a thousand songs in a pop.
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The iPod.
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If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on that calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do.
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Of course, it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college, but it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.
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Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward.
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You can only connect them looking backwards.
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So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.
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You have to trust in something, your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing
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that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even
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when it leads you off the well-worn path.
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And that will make all the difference.
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I was lucky.
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I found what I loved to do early in life, when I was 20.
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The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about it.
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I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.
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You've got to find what you love, and that is as true for work as it is for your lovers.
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Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.
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And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.
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If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle.
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As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
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And like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.
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So keep looking, don't settle.
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When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like, If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right.
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It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I've looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself, if today were the last day of my life,
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would I want to do what I am about to do today?
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And whenever the answer has been no for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
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Remembering
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that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.
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Because almost everything, all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure, these things just fall away in the face of death,
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leaving only what is truly important.
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Remembering
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that you are going to die is the best way I
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know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
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are already naked there is no reason not to follow your
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heart no one wants to die we gotta risk everything great artists Dylan Picasso new they risk failure and
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if we want to be great we gotta risk it too
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even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there
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and yet death is the destination we all share No one has ever escaped it.
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And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life.
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It's life's change agent.
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It clears out the old to make way for the new.
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Right now, the new is you.
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But someday, not too long from now, you will truly become the old and be cleared away.
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Sorry to be so dramatic, but it's quite true.
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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
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Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
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Don't let the noise of others' opinion drown out your own inner voice.
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And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
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They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
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Everything else is secondary.
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Were the words, Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish.
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It was their farewell message as they signed off.
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hungry, stay foolish.
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And I have always wished that for myself.
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Because people will never stop believing that they can get more out of something.
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Whether it be their jobs, their marriage, their money, their lives.
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It's the belief in the limitless, the impossible.
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And no matter what you dream, you can do it.
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When you grow up, you tend to get told the world is the way that it is.
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Your life is just to live your life inside the world and try not to bash into the walls too much.
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That's a very limited life.
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Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact
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and that is that everything around you that you call life was made up by people that are no smarter than you.
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And you can change it.
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You can influence it.
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You can build your own things that other people can use,
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is to shake off this erroneous notion that life is just there and you're just gonna live in it versus embrace it,
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change it, improve it, make your mark upon it.
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And once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.
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Here's to the crazy ones.
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The misfits.
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The rebels.
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The troublemakers.
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The round pegs in the square holes.
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The ones who see things differently.
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They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo.
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You can quote them, disagree with them,
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glorify or vilify them about the only thing you can't do is ignore them.
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Because they change things.
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They push the human race forward.
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And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.
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Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
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And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.
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Stay hungry, stay foolish.
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Thank you all very much.
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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 “Steve Jobs Speech - Best Motivational Video”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: connect, dots, truly. Deze video bevat 87 zinnen en 1007 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 7:34. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 133 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. 88% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is goed te volgen.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| foolish bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈfuː.lɪʃ/ | onverstandig, dom |
| backward bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈbækwɚd/ | achteruit, naar achteren |
| someday bijwoord | op een dag, ooit | |
| calligraphy zelfstandig naamwoord | /kəˈlɪɡɹəfi/ | kalligrafie, schoonschrijven |
| glorify werkwoord | /ˈɡlɔːɹɪfaɪ/ | verheerlijken, vereren |
| heaviness zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈhɛvɪnəs/ | zwaarte, zwaarheid |
| limitless bijvoeglijk naamwoord | grenzeloos, onbegrensd | |
| misfit zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈmɪs.fɪt/ | onaangepaste |
| troublemaker zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈtɹʌbəlˌmeɪkə(ɹ)/ | lastverkoper, druktemaker |
| typography zelfstandig naamwoord | /taɪˈpɑɡɹəfi/ | typografie |
| vilify werkwoord | /ˈvɪl.ɪ.faɪ/ | verguizen |
| beginner zelfstandig naamwoord | /bəˈɡɪnɚ/ | beginneling, beginnelinge |
| intuition zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˌɪn.tjuːˈɪʃ.ən/ | intuïtie |
| drown werkwoord | /dɹaʊn/ | verdrinken, verzuipen |
| embarrassment zelfstandig naamwoord | /ɪmˈbæɹ.əs.mənt/ | verlegenheid |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Betekenis |
|---|---|
| grow up werkwoord | opgroeien |
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | haven't found · I've looked · has been |
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | was replaced · be cleared · be trapped |
| Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding | people who want · dogma, which is · ones who see |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 22 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals don't, you'll, can't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: foolish /ˈfuː.lɪʃ/, intuition /ˌɪn.tjuːˈɪʃ.ən/, bash /bæʃ/, expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/, invention /ɪnˈvɛnʃən/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: calligraphy /kəˈlɪɡɹəfi/, erroneous /ɛˈɹoʊ.ni.əs/, troublemaker /ˈtɹʌbəlˌmeɪkə(ɹ)/, typography /taɪˈpɑɡɹəfi/, intuition /ˌɪn.tjuːˈɪʃ.ən/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: backward /ˈbækwɚd/, fond /fɑnd/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: backward /ˈbækwɚd/, embarrassment /ɪmˈbæɹ.əs.mənt/, bash /bæʃ/, satisfy /ˈsætɪsfaɪ/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: calligraphy /kəˈlɪɡɹəfi/, glorify /ˈɡlɔːɹɪfaɪ/, typography /taɪˈpɑɡɹəfi/, beginner /bəˈɡɪnɚ/, disagree /dɪsəˈɡɹi/
Zo oefen je met deze video
- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
- Spreek zin voor zin na op normale snelheid en herhaal elke zin tot je ritme gelijk is aan dat van de spreker.
- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als foolish, backward, someday.
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