Shadowing Practice: THE $21,000 FIRST CLASS AIRPLANE SEAT - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Want to see the coolest thing I've ever seen in an airplane seat?
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When I think of the greatest days in my entire life, I think of when my children were born, or perhaps when my son graduated high school,
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or today, when I was upgraded from business to first on Emirates.
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I don't know what I did to deserve this, I really don't.
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Oh my god, Smacks, writing kit.
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We're in the air, just left Dubai.
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I got my own doors.
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It's like my own little house over here.
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Total privacy.
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The TV here is enormous, it's like a movie theater, it's touch screen,
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but you can also control it with this thing it's like a mini iPad remote now
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if I want to drink and I don't want to have to call them
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and the fact that that's motorized is just ridiculous completely unnecessary
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The purser told me that I just order whatever I want whenever I want and there's no meal time.
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You just tell them to cook you something and they cook it.
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Like being at a real restaurant.
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This, this is caviar.
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If you don't know, caviar is fish eggs.
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Salty!
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In addition to the amenities kit
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This lovely thing which has all kinds of great surprises in it like shaving cream
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and deodorant and all kinds of sh like that They gave me this big bag see and in here here.
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Slippers.
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Eye shades. And pajamas.
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Very nice.
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I brought my own pajamas but I appreciate the gesture.
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Alright, this is what it looks like when it goes from a seat from a chair To a bed
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This is more comfortable than my bed at It's so cozy.
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The moment has arrived.
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She just told me my shower is ready.
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So you have to reserve the shower, like make a reservation.
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I reserved it for as close to landing as possible, we land in an hour and 45 minutes, so it's shower time.
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This is going to be so, so awesome.
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Once you're inside, you close the door to get the water, and you adjust the temperature.
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Once you find, you press that button, the water will come, you press again, it will stop.
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This is it.
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The real deal.
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The dream.
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Showering on an airplane.
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I've got 30 minutes in here.
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I can do whatever I want.
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I've got 5 minutes of running water in the shower.
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That gives me 25 other minutes to fill.
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That's a real work it.
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Dreams do come true, I am showering on an airframe.
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This is amazing, it's everything I'd hoped it would be.
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I am 43 ,000 feet in the air right now.
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Woo!
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Do I feel fresh and clean?
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This concludes my airplane shower spot experience.
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Thank you.
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Truly, truly extraordinary experience.
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Did you shower?
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Yeah, of course I did.
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How was it?
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Amazing.
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Incredible, right?
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Cool, eh?
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Unbelievable.
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see you later thank you it really does change your whole relationship with travel
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when you take what was the most painful part of traveling
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and instead of that being a terrible experience goes from pain It's so much better than the job,
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like it's so much more pleasure than it is It's like a meatball
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It's a fish Thank you man
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les

Deze spreekles op niveau B1 is gebaseerd op de video “THE $21,000 FIRST CLASS AIRPLANE SEAT”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: shower, airplane, experience. Deze video bevat 64 zinnen en 540 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 9:03. De spreker praat langzaam, ongeveer 60 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:

WoordUitspraakBetekenis
airplane zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈɛɹˌpleɪ̯n/vliegtuig
caviar zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈkæv.iˌɑɹ/kaviaar
pajamas zelfstandig naamwoord/pəˈd͡ʒɑ.məz/pyjama
deodorant zelfstandig naamwoord/diˈoʊ.də.ɹənt/deodorant, deo
meatball zelfstandig naamwoordgehaktbal
salty bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ˈsɔlti/zout
shave werkwoord/ˈʃeɪ̯v/scheren, zich scheren
gesture zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈd͡ʒɛs.t͡ʃɚ/gebaar, geste
conclude werkwoord/kənˈkluːd/besluiten, concluderen
adjust werkwoord/əˈd͡ʒʌst/aanpassen, verstellen
unbelievable bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ˌʌnbɪˈliːvəbl̩/ongelofelijk
shade zelfstandig naamwoord/ʃeɪd/schaduw
unnecessary bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ʌnˈnɛs.əˌsɛɹ.i/onnodig
enormous bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ɪˈnɔː.məs/enorm, gigantisch
painful bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ˈpeɪn.fl̩/moeizaam, smartelijk

Zinnen om te herhalen

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

  • It's like my own little house over here.
  • If you don't know, caviar is fish eggs.
  • Do I feel fresh and clean?

Grammatica in deze video

De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:

StructuurIn de video
Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog teltI've ever seen · has arrived
Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doetwere born · was upgraded
Vergrotende trap -er than / more … than — twee dingen vergelijkenmore comfortable than · better than · more pleasure than
Overtreffende trap the -est / the most … — het hoogste of laagste van een groepthe coolest · the greatest · the most painful

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 10 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals don't, I've, I'd. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

  • De klanken “sh” en “zh”: shave /ˈʃeɪ̯v/, reservation /ˌɹɛz.ɚˈveɪ.ʃən/, shade /ʃeɪd/
  • Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: deodorant /diˈoʊ.də.ɹənt/, amenities /əˈmɛn.ə.tiːz/, reservation /ˌɹɛz.ɚˈveɪ.ʃən/, unbelievable /ˌʌnbɪˈliːvəbl̩/, unnecessary /ʌnˈnɛs.əˌsɛɹ.i/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

  • Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: pajamas /pəˈd͡ʒɑ.məz/, amenities /əˈmɛn.ə.tiːz/, shave /ˈʃeɪ̯v/, conclude /kənˈkluːd/, shade /ʃeɪd/

Zo oefen je met deze video

  1. Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
  2. Spreek zin voor zin na op normale snelheid en herhaal elke zin tot je ritme gelijk is aan dat van de spreker.
  3. Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als airplane, caviar, pajamas.

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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