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I hate going to sleep.
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I'm a firm believer that if I didn't have to sleep, how much stuff I could get done.
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My mind is just, I don't know, it's always on.
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And so I just have these awful nightmares all the time.
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We're at this writing camp in Palm Springs, and it was Julian Bonnetto, of course, John Ryan, Matt Zara, Solly, Rocky Block, and Mickey Echo.
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Me and Julian, every morning when we do our camps, me and him just take a walk and talk about the day,
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talk about what we're gonna do, what's on your mind, and have quite a little therapy session about what's going on with me right now.
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The night before, it was getting really late, and I was just not trying to go to sleep.
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I cried to them about it, like, I'm scared to go to sleep.
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I don't want to go to sleep.
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And he was like, oh, we should write Bad Dreams.
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It's really cool.
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And so we did.
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The first one is kind of, I know sleep is going to be hell for me.
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You see the sun is going down, time's running out, and I'm by myself in the bed, and here I am.
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And everybody's going to bed, and I'm begging my friends to stay awake and hang out with me longer.
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And it's bedtime, and that sucks, because I don't like bedtime.
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The anxiety of what it feels like to go to sleep, get ready for bed for me at all.
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It's tough.
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So I think it says that in a visual way.
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You know the pre reveals that it's a love song, but I guess like an urgency to the person
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that you are maybe co -dependent on to sleep when I first got with Rache, my baby mama.
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It was wonderful.
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She quite really understood, and it's been such a wonderful person in my life to help me with that,
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somebody that's there with me when I wake up and will calm me down, and it's okay, and hold me, and be there for me.
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It's always easier sleeping with her.
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I don't know, there's just a freedom of anxiety already
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when I'm stepping to the bed with her because I know that I have somebody there.
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I'm not alone, you know, I guess.
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And so I think that says this is kind of like a thanks to her, I guess, in a way.
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You set me free from all of these, all of these.
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I've always had bad chronic nightmares since I was a kid.
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And one of the ones I remember vividly is my mom would get out of the car
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and walk into her friend's house or the store real quick and leave the car on.
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And I would sit in the car and the car would just kind of start going or backing up and leaving, driving by itself.
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And I'd be trying to control it or stepping on and looking out the windows and banging.
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And that's one I really, really remember.
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Please come around, help me settle down, hellish habits can cloud my head.
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What you waiting for?
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Something physical.
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I can't do this by myself.
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What are you waiting for?
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Something physical is kind of like, are you waiting for this stuff to actually happen in real life?
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The stuff that actually happens in my dreams.
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There's always this fear of when you're sleeping, feeling like it's actually for really happening and waking up
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and feeling like I hope I wasn't like seeing the future in my dream, like some foreshadowing or something.
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Rocky Block is responsible for that whole second verse.
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We had written the whole verse through chorus of the song, and then he just got it.
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He was like, I got the second verse right here.
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It's just like, perfect, let's do it.
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I call him Mr. Chat, GBT, man.
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And so every time I sing that, you know, I just had him out riding on the road with us too.
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And I don't know, it just always makes me feel close to him when I sing that verse, I guess, you know.
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We knew it would be a hit, but without it being like a screamer, you know what I mean?
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Because so many of my songs are like just me yelling for three and a half minutes, you know what I mean?
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It's like the tip of my voice.
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And the more I tour, the more I'm like, why did I write these songs to be like at the top of my voice
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and I'm singing for two hours a night?
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It's just not sustainable, you know what I mean?
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So we were trying to also write something that just kind of had a groove, but like didn't require me to yell all the time.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles is gebaseerd op de video “Teddy Swims "Bad Dreams" Lyrics & Meaning”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: sleep, verse, bed, guess, song. Deze video bevat 60 zinnen en 815 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 4:34. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 178 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. 85% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
15 woorden uit de video die het leren waard zijn, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| verse zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈvɝs/ | vers |
| anxiety zelfstandig naamwoord | /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/ | bezorgdheid, ongerustheid |
| nightmare zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈnaɪt.mɛɚ/ | nachtmerrie |
| yell werkwoord | /jɛl/ | schreeuwen |
| bedtime zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈbɛdtaɪm/ | bedtijd, kinderbedtijd |
| awful bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈɔːfʊl/ | verschrikkelijk, vreselijk |
| cloud zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈklaʊ̯d/ | wolk |
| reveal werkwoord | /ɹɪˈviːl/ | onthullen, zich ontpoppen |
| suck werkwoord | /sʌk/ | zuigen |
| bang zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈbæŋ/ | knal, klap |
| dependent bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /dɪˈpɛndənt/ | afhankelijk |
| habit zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈhæb.ɪt/ | gewoonte |
| chronic bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈkɹɑ.nɪk/ | chronisch |
| sustainable bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /səˈsteɪnəbəl/ | duurzaam, verantwoord |
| awake werkwoord | /əˈweɪk/ | ontwaken |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| wake up werkwoord | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | wakker worden, ontwaken |
| back up werkwoord | teruggaan | |
| come around werkwoord | /kʌ.məˈɹaʊnd/ | bijkomen |
| go down werkwoord | afdalen | |
| run out werkwoord | niet meer hebben |
Zinnen om te herhalen
Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:
- I don't want to go to sleep.
- I'm not alone, you know, I guess.
- What you waiting for?
- What are you waiting for?
- It's just not sustainable, you know what I mean?
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 23 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, don't, didn't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: foreshadow /fɔːˈʃædəʊ/, hellish /ˈhɛlɪʃ/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: anxiety /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/, sustainable /səˈsteɪnəbəl/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: cloud /ˈklaʊ̯d/, groove /ɡɹuv/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: anxiety /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/, bang /ˈbæŋ/, habit /ˈhæb.ɪt/, foreshadow /fɔːˈʃædəʊ/
Zo oefen je met deze video
- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
- Begin op 0,75× snelheid, spreek zin voor zin na en ga terug naar normale snelheid zodra het makkelijk gaat.
- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als verse, anxiety, nightmare.
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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.