Shadowing Practice: Study with Me | Slow British English - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Working online.

I'm going to try and work on the four skills of a language today.

That is speaking, listening, reading and writing.

Little Wilson is going to be joining me all day.

We will go for a walk too.

I am from the UK, but I also really enjoy studying languages.

I am studying Spanish at the moment.

I have been studying Spanish for about a year and a half.

I think, honestly, the first year of studying Spanish, I was obsessed.

Like every single day, I was studying for two to four hours every day.

Nowadays, I honestly, I have not been studying very much.

I'm quite busy.

So I don't have a lot of time to study.

Today, I want to get back on track.

I want to start studying again.

I want to actually take my language learning seriously because I want to be C1.

I want a C1 in Spanish, okay?

I am obviously going to study Spanish,

but I will translate all of my exercises into English and I will put everything in the description.

So if you want to study with me, then you can.

We are going to start the day with speaking so let's go.

He always tries to find the spot with the sun.

We should probably feed Wilson.

He needs to eat.

So I think for many people that speaking is probably the hardest part about learning a language.

It's normal to understand more than you can say in a language.

I try and have Spanish class about once a week.

Ideally, I would do more, but I'm quite busy.

So yeah, for me, it's about once a week.

For the speaking portion of our video today,

I am going to be having my class on italki and italki are the sponsor of this video.

Italki is a language learning platform where you can have one-to-one lessons.

So lessons that are personalised to you.

You can speak with a real native speaker and you can practice both your speaking and listening skills.

Today I am going to be having class with Marisha from Spain.

I'm really excited.

It's my first class with her, so let's go.

Have you taken lessons once?

At university I did a beginner course, but since then I have done like a few conversation classes,

but I don't like, I don't study.

Obviously in Castellano.

And tell me, how did you get into the language?

Or do you know if you lived in Spain?

Yes, well I started learning Spanish a little more than a year and a half, because my husband is Spanish.

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I don't know why, but every time I speak to somebody new, I get so nervous.

But Marishia was so nice to me.

She was so nice.

So she speaks like, how many languages?

Like four or five, maybe even six languages.

So I think she really understood what I was trying to explain

and the problems I'm having at this sort of upper intermediate level.

One of the things I always like put off in my language learning,

so if I put it off I avoid doing it, is writing.

So I think really I should focus on some writing skills.

I'm gonna drink a kombucha with ice some ice cubes

cheers we are now in the office I am at my desk honestly I think writing is probably my weakest,

my weakest skill.

Honestly, if I need to write something important,

I feel like it's really easy for me to just use a translator or use AI, honestly.

So it means that I don't write.

I don't write very often.

I'm going to ask AI to give me some prompts.

In general, in life, I try not to use AI very often because it's very bad for the environment.

I also, I try and use my brain.

I try and actually think as much as much as possible

but in this instance for learning I am going to use it to give me some questions to try and practice answering.

I have just typed give me three questions to answer in Spanish.

I also have here a timer.

I have a timer set for 25 minutes.

I am going to try and write for

that entire time I will then take a five minute break I'm going to use pen

and paper the first question I'm going to answer is

if you had the opportunity to live in any country where would you live

and what would you do

when you get there I will leave these questions down below in case you want to try as well,

but the timer is going to start now, so let's go.

My camera just turned off for no reason.

I still would love to live in a Spanish-speaking country one day.

Yeah, and what would I do when I get there?

I said work online.

Next. For f*s sake.

That means I've got to start again, okay?

It's time to lock in.

we're gonna answer should the government um limit

the use of social

media let's go

another one

done and that that is the end of my that is the end of my my writing practice.

And yes, by the way, Wilson is with me.

He's here.

So the next plan is we need to practice our reading skills

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and I think I want to go outside to do this.

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I'm going to head to a cafe.

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Let's go.

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Me and Wilson have just arrived to the cafe and I think here we're going to do some reading.

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I've brought my Kindle with me.

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I can grab it here.

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Here it is.

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I actually, I really enjoy

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using my Kindle for reading in Spanish because it has a feature where

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if you do not understand a word you can just click on it and it will give you the translation,

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it will give you the translated version and it helps

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because it means that I don't have to stop and get my phone out and google the translation of a word.

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Right now I have started reading A Court of Thorns and Roses in Spanish.

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This is a book that I have read in English.

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It's good to try and read a book that you have already read, it just helps you know the story.

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This is going to be my first time reading a fantasy book.

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I think fantasy is one of the hardest genres, one of the hardest types of books

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to read in another language because there are so many made-up words

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and difficult expressions like how how often do you hear the word dagger in English

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but in books in fantasy books

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that word is super common I am gonna head into the cafe now with Wilson

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and we're going to have a coffee and read for a little bit.

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I'm with Wilson right now.

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We are going for a walk and this is another really good time to practice listening.

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When you have a level that is more intermediate,

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you can start listening to things in English without like visual cues,

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without having a screen in front of you to help you know what the discussion is.

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Right now, for example, I am going to listen to an audiobook.

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I'm going to throw the wall for Wilson.

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Wilson!

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I have been listening to Sunrise on the Reaping, which is the new Hunger Games book,

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and I actually have bought it in Spanish as well

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so I'm going to listen to sunrise on the reaping in

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Spanish where is it that's what I'm going to listen to oh

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it's very windy I have with me my headphones my little headphones they're little earbuds and and Wilson has lost his ball.

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Audiobooks are also really good because you can change the speed.

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So sometimes I listen at like 0.8 speed to help me understand.

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On the way here too, honestly, i was speaking spanish in the car by myself um i

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know often it's easy to think oh i i need a teacher to speak the language i'm learning

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but try practice speaking try and practice speaking by yourself you know i speak in the car i imagine

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scenarios and just speak to myself

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and honestly it's a good way to to practice um your fluency

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and your confidence and i can try and discuss things

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that i'm not a hundred percent sure i know how to

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say it's a good way it's a good way to uh to practice it's super windy today it's really cold.

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I've managed to find a little corner, a little corner of this field that's a bit more sheltered,

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there is less wind but I don't think we will be out here for long today.

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Wilson loves it though.

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I'm going to throw the ball again.

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We are playing fetch.

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When the dog chases the ball and brings it back that's fetch playing fetch good boy

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OMG.

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We've just got back from the walk.

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It is 5pm.

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I feel good about today.

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I'm now feeding Wilson his dinner.

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Kind of gross.

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But I feel like I've been really productive today.

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And I definitely feel like.

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I feel like I know now the things I have to work on in particular.

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So definitely for me the most difficult part of today was when I was trying to write the more complex answers,

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like when I was writing.

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OMG, it was so hard.

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I'm now giving Wilson his dinner and I'm gonna go and watch some YouTube or maybe even Netflix in Spanish.

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One of the best language learning tips I have is honestly you need to see YouTube and TV series as studying.

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So for me watching YouTube that counts that counts as studying okay.

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There's lots of things that I enjoy watching in Spanish.

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i like watching vlogs

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so one of the channels i really love in spanish is

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this girl mariana zamora zamora i don't know i love her she is

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so beautiful and she is from mexico

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but she lives in salt lake city in the US

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and I just I love her videos I love her I

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think she's just gorgeous love another thing I like watching is I've been watching love is blind

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which is a series on Netflix

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which I I really enjoy I watched love is blind Argentina

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and now I'm watching love is blind Mexico difficult cool content is.

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Wilson has a ramp so he can get on the sofa with me.

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We are now sat in the living room together.

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I think I'm going to watch YouTube.

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I'm going to watch Mariana.

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Here she is.

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It was really, really cold on the walk with all of that wind.

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So I'm going to warm up and watch some YouTube.

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I mean, when I listen to YouTube videos, when I watch YouTube videos, I do not have subtitles.

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I never, ever use subtitles and I don't look up words that I don't understand.

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I just, you know, try and understand from the rest of the sentence.

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I have definitely hit like two or three hours of listening to Spanish today and reading and speaking.

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So honestly, I'm feeling I'm feeling good.

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I think I needed this to, I don't know, feel feel motivated about Spanish again.

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I needed this to feel motivated again.

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And yeah, you know, next stop, C1.

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Honestly, I'm not sure I have B2, but I'm going to keep going.

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You know, language learning is such a long process.

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I actually don't know if it ever really ends um

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so I always say the most important thing is to enjoy

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it hopefully you can fall in love with the language

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that you're learning I have another video on my channel where

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I recommend um my favorite YouTube channels in English I will link

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that at the end of this video in case you need some inspiration for channels to to watch

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but yeah that just leaves me to say thank you

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so much for watching this video and I will see you in the next one bye

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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les

Deze spreekles op niveau B1 is gebaseerd op de video “Study with Me”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: spanish, language, Wilson, speaking, learning. Deze video bevat 201 zinnen en 2150 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 21:05. De spreker praat langzaam, ongeveer 102 woorden per minuut, zodat je tijd hebt om elke klank na te doen. 84% 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 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:

Woord	Uitspraak	Betekenis
café zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˌkæˈfeɪ/	café, koffiehuis
fetch werkwoord	/fɛt͡ʃ/	halen
timer zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈtaɪmɚ/	timer, eierwekker
audiobook zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈɔdi.oʊbʊk/	luisterboek
subtitle zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈsʌbtaɪtəl/	ondertiteling, ondertitel
beginner zelfstandig naamwoord	/bəˈɡɪnɚ/	beginneling, beginnelinge
reap werkwoord	/ˈɹiːp/	oogsten
windy bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/ˈwɪn.di/	winderig
motivate werkwoord	/ˈmoʊ.tɪ.veɪt/	motiveren
sunrise zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈsʌnɹaɪz/	zonsopgang, zonsopkomst
headphones zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈhɛdfoʊnz/	hoofdtelefoon, koptelefoon
translate werkwoord	/tɹænzˈleɪt/	vertalen, overzetten
intermediate bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/ɪn.tə(ɹ)ˈmi.di.ət/	middelmatig
earbud zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈiɹ.bʌd/	oortje, oordopje
fluency zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈfluːənsi/	vlotheid

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

Woord	Uitspraak	Betekenis
get off werkwoord		van ... afgaan
look up werkwoord	/ˌlʊk ˈʌp/	opkijken

Zinnen om te herhalen

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

Ideally, I would do more, but I'm quite busy.
It's my first class with her, so let's go.
Have you taken lessons once?
I don't write very often.
That means I've got to start again, okay?

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 continuous have/has been + -ing — iets dat eerder begon en nog bezig is	have been studying · have not been studying · have been listening
Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt	have done · have just typed · have just arrived
Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet	was obsessed · are personalised · are now sat
Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding	teacher who also · Reaping, which is

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 56 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, don't, I've. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

De klanken “sh” en “zh”: comprehension /ˌkɑmpɹɪˈhɛnʃn̩/, subscription /səbˈskɹɪpʃən/, genre /ˈ(d)ʒɑnɹə/, shelter /ˈʃɛltə/
Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: audiobook /ˈɔdi.oʊbʊk/, intermediate /ɪn.tə(ɹ)ˈmi.di.ət/, ideally /aɪˈdi.ə.li/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: sunrise /ˈsʌnɹaɪz/, headphones /ˈhɛdfoʊnz/, earbud /ˈiɹ.bʌd/, cube /kjub/, nowadays /ˈnaʊ.ə.deɪz/
/æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: café /ˌkæˈfeɪ/, translate /tɹænzˈleɪt/, dagger /ˈdæɡɚ/, translator /ˈtɹænzleɪtɚ/
/g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: beginner /bəˈɡɪnɚ/, dagger /ˈdæɡɚ/

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 café, fetch, timer.

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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