Shadowing Practice: telling my story - Learn English Speaking with Video

hey it's hayley and my voice is a little gone i'm making this video

because i wanted to tell this story in my own words

of just where i've been at health wise for the last month

and kind of what i've gone through

and what the story is here i think as some people know a lot of people know

or you may not know i had like a very scary incident on march 10th basically i was

sitting at breakfast with my husband having a normal day normal conversation

and we were in the middle of talking

and all of a sudden i felt this really weird sensation

that kind of like traveled down my arm from my shoulder all the way down to my fingertips

and it made my fingertips feel really numb and weird

and i was sitting there

and i was kind of going like this trying to figure out like what the sensation was

and where it was coming from and justin was like are you okay

and i just didn't respond because i wasn't sure

and then he asked me again and um

when i went to respond i couldn't speak the right side

of my face started drooping i couldn't get a sentence out

everything was coming out like not even jumbled just like couldn't get any of the words out

so obviously immediately i thought i was having a stroke like

a full-blown stroke um he thought i was having a stroke

so right away he asked for somebody to please call 9-1-1

and get a doctor where we were there happened to be a doctor there a medic there who rushed over

and they started

asking me questions they started testing my arms definitely the scariest moment of my life i had

so many things running through my head the number one thing

being i'm having a stroke i'm really scared i don't know

what's going on i don't know why this is happening am i gonna have permanent issues from this like

so many things were running through my head

that um were really freaking me out

and really really really scaring me the facial drooping lasted for probably like 30 seconds

maybe a little bit more i honestly i wasn't i couldn't see myself of course

so i don't really know but i do know

that it like subsided fairly fast and so they were asking me questions

and do you know where you are do you know your name

and i knew all of the answers in my head

but as soon as i would try to say it it

i just could not get it out it was like my tongue

and my mouth just could not form the sentences and the responses.

So obviously that was really, really scary.

So I got up, I could walk totally fine.

At that point, it was really just like the speech issue.

Went back to my house,

waited for the ambulance to come.

At that point, speech started to come back a little bit,

got in the ambulance to the hospital.

There was actually a funny moment where they were calling into the hospital to explain what they were bringing in.

And they were like, I have a 30 year old female.

And I was like, I'm 25.

I had to make sure that they weren't going to age me five years for no reason, you know?

And I noticed that when the speech came back and I felt like I could talk,

as soon as my anxiety would like settle in or hit me,

it would make my speech feel funny again.

when I started feeling really scared and really anxious,

it just made everything worse.

But by the time I got to the emergency room,

I was pretty much back to normal,

could talk, wasn't having any issues with my face or my arm.

They did like the stroke checklist in the emergency room and I scored a zero.

I wasn't having any symptoms anymore.

So basically they did some scans and they were able to see

that I had suffered a small blood clot to my brain which they labeled and categorized as something called a TIA.

I'm gonna try to put the definitions of everything I talk about under here so that I don't butcher it.

Basically it's like having a mini stroke.

It definitely feels like having a stroke except my body was able to resolve it pretty quickly

and then I didn't have any more issues for the whole rest of the day

and the whole rest of the time that I was in the hospital.

I felt really thankful and grateful for that, that it wasn't worse.

I wasn't going to have any permanent issues,

but you know, my scans did show

that I had a lack of oxygen to a certain part of my brain for a certain amount of time.

Still definitely really, really scary.

So when I was in the emergency room, they kept me overnight.

They did tons of tests.

They did blood tests to see if I had a clotting disorder or if I had an autoimmune disease or

they did everything and anything

that they could think of they did they also did a certain test called a bubble echo

which is when they do an echo on your heart

and they take saline and they kind of i don't want to say shake it up

but they they make it so it has bubbles in it

and then they put the bubbles in your vein to see

if you have any bubbles escaping out of any part of your heart

and what they're looking for in

that test is something called a pfo basically what a pfo is something

that you are born with

and typically at birth it's supposed to close on its own except sometimes it does not

and it's a flap that's kind of like this between the right

and the left chambers of the heart so

when i was in the emergency room they did this test they didn't see anything they told me

that i didn't have a pfo so the next day i was discharged

and i went down to ucla to see some more doctors to do some more thorough in-depth testing

because at that point they didn't really have an answer

or a conclusion for why this had happened they did come

to the conclusion of why they think i had a blood clot in the first place in the conclusion

that all of the the doctors came to was three different things.

One was that I had just recently started birth control pills

which i should have never been on

because i am somebody who suffered from migraines anyway

and i just did not talk to my doctor about this

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so ladies if you suffer from bad migraines

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and you plan on being on birth control pills make sure you tell your doctor

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because having a stroke is a potential side effect from

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birth control pills the second thing was i had recently had covid

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and that was something that they thought was a contributing factor

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and then the third thing was

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that i had recently gone on a really long flight i had flown to paris

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and back in a very short amount of time

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and i slept through the whole flight both ways didn't get up

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and move around never thought about wearing compression socks

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so basically all of the doctors came to the conclusion

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that it was a perfect storm that led to me having a small blood clot

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and that was the conclusion

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so they still didn't know necessarily how the blood clot traveled to my brain

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so when i went down to ucla we did some more in-depth testing

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and when i went there they did something called a transcranial doppler

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which is basically a very a much more accurate test to find a pfo

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and what they do is similarly they do the saline with the bubbles they inject it

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but with this test they listen for the sound of bubbles escaping in in the heart

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if they don't hear anything presumably you you don't have a pfo

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if they hear a little bit you might have one

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but it's small and if they hear tons of bubbles escaping you have one

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it's probably large so I I did this test

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and they actually found that I had a grade 5 PFO

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which is the highest uh grade that you can have

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so mine was fairly large but at this point too I was just grateful

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that they found it and that they knew that it was there and also the conclusion was that

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I had a blood clot that traveled into my heart

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and instead of what typically happens if you have a small blood clot is

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that the heart will filter the blood clot to your lungs

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and your lungs will absorb because the lungs are so big and they can handle it.

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What happened with me is my blood clot actually escaped through the flap

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or the hole in my heart and it traveled to my brain and that is why I suffered a TIA.

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So the recommendation from my doctors at UCLA was to have a procedure done called a PFO closure,

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which is when they go through your groin,

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through the femoral vein in your groin,

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and they travel up to the heart,

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and they put this small little button.

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It looks like a little button.

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That buttons close the flap in the heart,

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and then eventually your heart tissue grows back over the closure device and that's it.

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And then you have it forever and you continue on with normal life.

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So I recently got the PFO closure done and it went very smoothly.

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I'm recovering really well, really fast.

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I feel great.

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The biggest thing I feel honestly is I just feel really relieved that we were able to figure everything out,

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that we were able to get it closed,

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that I will be able to just move on from this really scary situation

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and just live my life and it was definitely a really eye-opening thing for me.

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I definitely felt a lot of anxiety through the situation because from when the TIA happened,

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when I had the procedure to close the PFO,

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I just was really nervous a lot of the time about having another TIA

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or experiencing those symptoms again and then I would get really bad anxiety

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and my anxiety was kind of making me feel funny.

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It would make my fingers and hands feel kind of tingly

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and I just honestly like had a really really hard time in the in-between.

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So ever since the TIA I have been on a blood thinner

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and aspirin every single day

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and I was also having an issue with the blood thinner medication because it was exacerbating my anxiety.

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It was making me feel very out of it, just really sleepy.

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but I was able to figure out the dose with my doctor and now I feel much better.

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Now that it's all done I feel so much relief

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and I feel just so grateful to all of the doctors at Eisenhower Medical Center who took care of me,

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all the doctors at UCLA who took care of me,

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Dr. Tobis who performed my procedure and has taken really good care of me.

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Yeah, it's kind of like hard for me to tell this story.

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You know, I've only really up until now told friends and family and people that I know and that I'm close to,

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but I felt like it was important for me to share this

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and because it already was like kind of a public situation and people kind of knew,

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but they didn't really know the full story

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and I also wanted to wait to explain everything until my procedure was done and finished and

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everything had gone smoothly and was okay.

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That's my story.

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That's what happened.

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If there's anybody that watches this that has gone through the same thing or something similar,

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I definitely really empathize with you and I understand how life-altering and scary it is.

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And if there's anybody out there who sees this

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and has maybe experienced similar things but doesn't really know the reason

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or know why i would definitely encourage you to talk to a doctor

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and yeah so this is what happened and um thanks for watching

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Thank you.

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Deze spreekles op niveau B2 is gebaseerd op de video “telling my story”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: doctor, blood, pfo, clot, stroke. Deze video bevat 180 zinnen en 2113 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 12:35. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 168 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. 82% 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
clot zelfstandig naamwoord	/klɑt/	klonter
bubble zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈbʌbəl/	bel
pill zelfstandig naamwoord	/pɪl/	pil
scare werkwoord	/skɛɚ/	bang maken, beangstigen
lung zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈlʌŋ/	long
closure zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈkloʊ.ʒɚ/	beëindiging, afsluiting
fingertip zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈfɪŋɡɚˌtɪp/	vingertop
groin zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈɡɹoɪ̯n/ ~ /ˈɡɹɔɪ̯n/	lies
migraine zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈmaɪɡɹeɪn/	migraine
symptom zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈsɪm(p)təm/	symptoom
vein zelfstandig naamwoord	/veɪn/	ader
sensation zelfstandig naamwoord	/sɛnˈseɪʃən/	gevoel
echo zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈɛk.oʊ/	echo, naklank
ambulance zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈæmbjᵿl(ə)n(t)s/	ziekenwagen, ambulance
scan werkwoord	/skæn/	afspeuren

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

Woord	Uitspraak	Betekenis
come back werkwoord		terugkomen
figure out werkwoord		uitvogelen, er achter komen
get up werkwoord		opstaan
come out werkwoord	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	uitkomen

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	i've been · i've gone · have been
Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet	are born · was discharged · was done

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 40 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals didn't, don't, I'm. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

De “th”-klanken: smoothly /ˈsmuːðli/, empathize /ˈɛmpəˌθaɪz/, thankful /ˈθæŋkfəl/, thorough /ˈθʌɹoʊ/
De klanken “sh” en “zh”: closure /ˈkloʊ.ʒɚ/, sensation /sɛnˈseɪʃən/, compression /kəmˈpɹɛʃ.ən/, recommendation /ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/, anxious /ˈæŋkʃəs/
Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: categorize /ˈkætɪɡəˌɹaɪz/, exacerbate /ɪɡˈzæsɚˌbeɪt/, presumably /pɹɪˈzuːməbli/, recommendation /ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/, medication /mɛdɪˈkeɪʃən/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: categorize /ˈkætɪɡəˌɹaɪz/, empathize /ˈɛmpəˌθaɪz/, subside /sʌbˈsaɪd/, relieve /ɹɪˈliːv/, absorb /æbˈsɔɹb/
/æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: flap /flæp/, ambulance /ˈæmbjᵿl(ə)n(t)s/, scan /skæn/, aspirin /ˈæs.pɹɪn/, categorize /ˈkætɪɡəˌɹaɪz/
/g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: fingertip /ˈfɪŋɡɚˌtɪp/, groin /ˈɡɹoɪ̯n/ ~ /ˈɡɹɔɪ̯n/, migraine /ˈmaɪɡɹeɪn/, categorize /ˈkætɪɡəˌɹaɪz/, exacerbate /ɪɡˈzæsɚˌbeɪt/

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 clot, bubble, pill.

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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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les

Belangrijke woorden in deze video

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

Grammatica in deze video

Uitspraak om op te letten

Zo oefen je met deze video

Wat is de Shadowing-techniek?