Shadowing Practice: Stop trying to be perfect. - Learn English Speaking with Video

Les maken...
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You know, something I had to realize is that Being normal or just wanting to be normal is so stupid.
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Because why do you want to be someone that you're not?
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Why do you want to try and be this perfect person?
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There's no reason for you to try and be perfect, because none of us are perfect in the first place.
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We're all not perfect.
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We all have insecurities and we all have problems that we may be going through. But...
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That makes who you are.
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You see, you live your life because of the problems you've gone through.
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You've became who you are because of the stuff that you went through in your life.
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And even though those times, yeah, they might have been hard, but...
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They made you into who you are now.
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They've built you brick by brick.
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Every problem you've had, problem by problem by problem, it is stacked up to become who you are.
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And that's just how life is, you know?
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But wanting to be perfect, isn't who you should be.
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Because not everybody's perfect.
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And if you were perfect, well then if everything was so perfect all the time, you wouldn't know what perfect actually was.
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You wouldn't be able to feel that happiness, that sensation of doing something great if you were always perfect all the time.
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So, you know, it's not great to always be perfect.
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You don't always want to be perfect.
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It's good to have flaws.
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It's good to mess up sometimes.
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It's good to not be this perfect person all the time.
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You know, it builds who you are.
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And, you know, sometimes there's beauty in messing up.
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You know, you mess up, you learn from it, and you get better and better and better.
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And every time you get better, you're happier.
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It brings joy.
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Every time you do something good, you feel the sensation of happiness.
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You feel so happy all the time whenever you do this great thing.
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And if you were perfect, you would never know what that felt like.
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You would never know those happy times.
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So, yeah, it's sometimes it's hard whenever you can't do something or whenever you mess up or whenever you're not perfect. But...
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You shouldn't always want to be perfect.

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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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