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Your thoughts and your ideas are not your own.
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You have inherited them from your parents, from your culture, from centuries of history.
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You want to ground yourself in that reality, in that past, because if you ignore history, if you ignore books and all the lessons that they have,
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then your world is just going to get narrower and narrower and narrower and narrower.
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You're not going to be creative.
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You're going to be frustrated and bad things will happen to you.
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Books are the greatest adventure in the world.
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Can I make the case for why we should read books?
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It's a strange question for me because for my whole life, books have been the greatest thing that ever happened to me.
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If I didn't have books, I would be so miserable.
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It's such an enjoyable experience.
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But think about it this way.
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You live in your head with your own thoughts, right?
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And if you had printed out one day, if somebody printed out on paper what your thoughts were for a week,
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you'd be astonished at how boring and how trivial and how meaningless they are.
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The same thoughts recurring over and over and over and over again.
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The same stupid resentments and things that bother you, etc. Your mind is going in these circles round and round and round and round and round.
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Your world is very limited.
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I'm sorry it's not a mystery.
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I know it for a fact because we're all like that.
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Okay.
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You're living in a city with a particular culture.
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You see the same people every day.
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You see the same TV shows every day or the same podcasts every day.
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It's a very narrow, limited world and you are suffering from it.
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I'm sorry to say it's making you suffer.
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A book takes you out of your world.
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It is an adventure.
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You get to travel to ancient Rome and be there with Marcus Aurelius,
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the emperor, as he's trying to figure out how to manage his own life and his own problems.
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You get to go to ancient Greece and be there during the Peloponnesian War.
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You get to see ancient Egypt and all the strange things going on.
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You get to go to Renaissance Italy and hang out Leonardo da Vinci.
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You get to follow Napoleon Bonaparte in his battlefields.
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You get exposed to these ideas of people that are not your ideas, that are interesting, that are weird, that are strange.
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You get to expose yourself to theories and to things from other cultures that are almost like from another planet.
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They're going to open your mind.
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It's like taking a trip.
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It's like being able to travel.
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It's like getting out of your own little world, your own little apartment, and seeing the world, seeing history, seeing who you are, okay?
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You are not a creature of today.
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You are not a creature that was born for like the year 2000.
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I don't know when you were born, right?
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That's not the world.
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The world existed 10,000 years before you.
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Your thoughts and your ideas are not your own.
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You have inherited them from your parents, from your culture, from centuries of history.
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You want to ground yourself in that reality, in that past, because if you ignore history, if you ignore books and all the lessons that they have,
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then your world is just going to get narrower and narrower and narrower and narrower.
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You're not going to be creative.
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You're going to be frustrated and bad things will happen to you.
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Books are the greatest adventure in the world.
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And I can't personally understand how if I can't read a book, if I had to go a month without reading a book, I would literally lose my mind.
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Right.
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Of course, it's an addiction, which isn't so great.
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You want to build that addiction.
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That's probably the best addiction that you can have.
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OK, so if you want, you know, someday I will post as I will, as we have on my newsletter, lists of books that you can read that are truly exciting,
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that will lift you, that will give you these experiences that I'm talking about.
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But please, I beg you, I implore you, we need more people who are reading books today in the world right now.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau B2 is gebaseerd op de video “The Pleasures and Powers from Reading Books”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: narrower, thoughts, round, ignore, ideas. Deze video bevat 60 zinnen en 725 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 3:52. De spreker praat snel, ongeveer 188 woorden per minuut, dus reken op verbonden en ingeslikte klanken. 86% 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 13 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| addiction zelfstandig naamwoord | /əˈdɪkˌʃən/ | verslaving, verslaafdheid |
| frustrate werkwoord | /ˈfɹʌsˌtɹeɪt/ | frustreren |
| inherit werkwoord | /ɪnˈhɛɹɪt/ | erven |
| expose werkwoord | /ɪkˈspoʊz/ | zichtbaar maken, blootleggen |
| astonish werkwoord | /əˈstɑnɪʃ/ | verbazen |
| excite werkwoord | /ɪkˈsaɪt/ | prikkelen, opwinden |
| resentment zelfstandig naamwoord | /ɹɪˈzɛnt.mənt/ | misnoegen, wrok |
| meaningless bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈmiː.nɪŋ.ləs/ | zinloos, betekenisloos |
| newsletter zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈn(j)uzˌlɛtɚ/ | nieuwsbrief |
| bore werkwoord | /boɹ/ | vervelen |
| battlefield zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈbætəlˌfiːld/ | slagveld |
| someday bijwoord | op een dag, ooit | |
| podcast zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈpɑdˌkæst/ | podcast |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Betekenis |
|---|---|
| figure out werkwoord | uitvogelen, er achter komen |
Zinnen om te herhalen
Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:
- You're not going to be creative.
- Can I make the case for why we should read books?
- I'm sorry it's not a mystery.
- You're living in a city with a particular culture.
- I'm sorry to say it's making you suffer.
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 didn't have books, I would be |
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | be frustrated · be astonished · was born |
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | have inherited · have been |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 16 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals you're, I'm, can't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: addiction /əˈdɪkˌʃən/, astonish /əˈstɑnɪʃ/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: expose /ɪkˈspoʊz/, battlefield /ˈbætəlˌfiːld/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: battlefield /ˈbætəlˌfiːld/, podcast /ˈpɑdˌkæst/
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 addiction, frustrate, inherit.
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