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Excuse me, sir.
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Excuse me, sir.
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Sorry to bother you.
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What?
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Sorry to bother you, I'm Chris.
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- Yeah.
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- And I'm a photographer, I'm a portrait photographer.
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And I just thought that you had like a really cool look.
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I noticed you over there and the hat and everything and the coats Are you from Dublin sir?
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Yeah. Are you?
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No, I don't live here anymore.
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I left many years ago.
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Oh, okay.
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I'm leaving tonight.
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I'm going back to London where I live.
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Oh, you're living in London?
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Yeah.
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Do you miss Dublin?
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Well, you have a certain...
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- That's not funny.
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- Empathy and nostalgic feeling for the place you're from originally.
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I'm not using my first name, I'm using my middle name, which is James.
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James, okay.
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And that's what I'm calling myself because it doesn't cause a hassle, right?
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Yeah.
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I've never been happy with my first name.
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You're a photographer, did you say?
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Yes, there's no money involved in this.
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You get the vibe and I know you're not...
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I'm not out to scam you or anything.
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I guess I know that, but unless you take that as a compliment.
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I look at myself this morning and I'm not happy with what I'm looking at, you know.
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I've always had a sense of appearance, right, since I was a young boy.
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When you're not rich, I mean, if I was rich, I'd...
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I mean, I've always had...
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what I would regard as impeccable taste, but now Here I am.
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- I'm going to go.
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Thank you.
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Not rich.
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And yet I still make a slight effort.
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You know, it's like if you haven't got money, you know what I'm saying?
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I should have money off my own bet, you know, because of my background and all the possibilities.
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I should, you know, be like a top lawyer or theoretically that was within my grasp, right?
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To be a top professional and to be pretty wealthy in that respect.
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Yes.
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I missed that train.
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Have you ever been married?
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Do you have family?
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What was your name?
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I'm Chris.
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I regard myself as Chris as the greatest failure that ever walked the planet Earth.
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Why?
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Because I am.
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Because I didn't achieve the very basics.
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I'm the could have been man.
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I call myself the could have been man.
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I could have been, right?
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I'm the could have been man, but I ended up with nothing.
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I didn't even get a life.
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And I tried from the age of 13.
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You know, and the girl I was looking was looking at the other geezer.
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important lesson you think you've learned over the course of your life?
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Never wanted to put anybody down or bully, you know?
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I have no tolerance for bullies.
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I put somebody down or make fun of somebody.
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If I could turn the clock back, I wouldn't hesitate to tell people exactly how I feel, which I didn't want to do, then I didn't want to hurt anybody, right?
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Yeah.
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Just bought a neckerchief.
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You want to put on your neckerchief, if you want?
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There's 9 million people in London, and I don't have a single friend.
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And I'm not saying that like I'm crying, that is the reality.
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I lived overseas in the Americas, North America and South America.
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And when I came back, they had all kind of disappeared.
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And I've been alone for the last 22 years.
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When I was quite young, I didn't need any friends.
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I'm chasing girls and I didn't want another guy.
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I had the dawn to be able to chat up and all the rest of it.
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And then they'd move in or try to move in.
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And of course it never dawned on me I'd get to this age
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and be practically penniless and not have a profession and all the rest of it, which I should have, right? Or money.
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I should have a profession.
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I should have money.
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I missed all of that.
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And not even a wife.
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You know since the age of four you could say I'm psychologically alone since the age of four
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My own mother was a piece of ice
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We had a horrifically bad relationship at one point very difficult woman piece of ice.
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There was no physical contact Very strange by an Irish woman.
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There was no hug.
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There was no kiss.
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There was no nothing.
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It was I do remember
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when I that school I was at when I was four years of it there was another kid that I After school, I went to his house.
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And his mother, was all over him, right?
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I can even feel this very day, that feeling.
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I wish she was my mother.
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And then you read about some British,
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English guy who's disappeared or in jail in India or Thailand and the parents fly over there.
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Yeah.
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When I came back from America, I stepped off the plane, nobody...
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I've never been met at any airport in my life by anybody.
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And I know in my heart I could have been tough in certain things.
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The other thing I might tell you, Chris, is I've always had it done for writing.
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and I wrote two plays which I'm very proud of, and they've been sitting there for 20 years.
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I've said recently that I make people laugh almost every day.
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I haven't made you laugh because I've been very serious, but I make people laugh every day.
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without even trying.
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Like I'm not trying to be.. but...
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and I said this is my greatest asset.
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My only contribution is complete strangers that I talk to.
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They crack up laughing sometimes.
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Chris, I mean, these people are wondering who is this famous guy?
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You know, I don't have a bitterness, but I could have, but I don't have it.
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And you've been very friendly and gracious to me and kind, and I appreciate that James.
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That's why, that says a lot about your character.
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It says a lot about your character.
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But there are times, um, uh, when you do feel low, you know?
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you you you you
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau B2 is gebaseerd op de video “The Most Raw Conversation I've Ever Had: Revisited”. Deze video bevat 118 zinnen en 1022 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 5:49. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 176 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. Slechts 81% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is pittig. 22 van de 118 zinnen zijn vragen, dus het is goede oefening voor vraagintonatie en korte antwoorden.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| neckerchief zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈnɛkə(ɹ)tʃɪf/ | halsdoek |
| bully zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈbʊli/ | wreedaard, pestkop |
| disappear werkwoord | /dɪsəˈpɪɹ/ | verdwijnen, verzwinden |
| profession zelfstandig naamwoord | /pɹəˈfɛʃ.ən/ | professie |
| impeccable bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ɪmˈpɛkəbəl/ | onberispelijk |
| hassle zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈhæsl̩/ | poeha |
| gracious bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈɡɹeɪʃəs/ | vriendelijk, hoffelijk |
| theoretically bijwoord | theoretisch | |
| empathy zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɛmpəθi/ | inlevingsvermogen, empathie |
| hesitate werkwoord | /ˈhɛz.ə.teɪt/ | aarzelen |
| compliment zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈkɑmpləmənt/ | compliment |
| vibe zelfstandig naamwoord | /vaɪb/ | vibraties |
| scam zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈskæm/ | oplichting, deceptie |
| grasp werkwoord | /ɡɹæsp/ | grijpen, vastpakken |
| tolerance zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈtɑ.lə.ɹəns/ | verdraagzaamheid, tolerantie |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Betekenis |
|---|---|
| come back werkwoord | terugkomen |
Zinnen om te herhalen
Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:
- No, I don't live here anymore.
- I've never been happy with my first name.
- You're a photographer, did you say?
- You get the vibe and I know you're not...
- Have you ever been married?
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Voorwaardelijke zinnen if + zin, will/would + werkwoord — een voorwaarde en het gevolg | if I was rich, I'd |
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | I've never been · I've always had · Have you ever been |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 55 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, I've, didn't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: profession /pɹəˈfɛʃ.ən/, gracious /ˈɡɹeɪʃəs/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: impeccable /ɪmˈpɛkəbəl/, practically /ˈpɹæk.tɪ.k(ə.)li/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: hassle /ˈhæsl̩/, scam /ˈskæm/, grasp /ɡɹæsp/, practically /ˈpɹæk.tɪ.k(ə.)li/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: gracious /ˈɡɹeɪʃəs/, grasp /ɡɹæsp/
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 neckerchief, bully, disappear.
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.