Shadowing Practice: The Spectacular Now - You are absolutely beautiful - Learn English Speaking with Video

Les maken...
1
If that guy was bugging you.
2
No, he's fine.
3
Yeah.
4
OK.
5
Done?
6
Ooh, can I try that?
7
What, this?
8
I don't know, this is some pretty serious stuff.
9
Taste.
10
You sure?
11
Yes.
12
All right, yeah, there you go.
13
Go for it.
14
It's pretty strong.
15
Oh, my god.
16
Yeah.
17
Ew.
18
Yeah, I know.
19
Whoa.
20
I know.
21
I told you.
22
How do you drink that?
23
I don't know, I guess I've just been doing it for a while.
24
Well, I don't know.
25
You know who gave me my first beer? Who?
26
My dad.
27
Really?
28
Yeah.
29
I was probably six years old.
30
He used to take me to baseball games every Saturday and then let me have little sips of it.
31
Did you get drunk?
32
No, I didn't get drunk, but, I mean, it tasted really nice.
33
It felt warm.
34
Where does he know, your dad?
35
He's an airline pilot.
36
Really?
37
Yeah, he flies all across the country.
38
Saturday, that's awesome.
39
Dude, he is awesome.
40
I don't know what he was doing with my mom for that long, but...
41
Are they, like, divorced?
42
Yeah.
43
She made them leave us a long time ago.
44
Want some more?
45
Try it?
46
Yeah?
47
Why not?
48
Kind of sounds like we have the same mom.
49
Yeah?
50
How so?
51
Um, well, for example, I got into college today, but there's no way that my mom will let me go, so...
52
You got into college today?
53
Mm -hmm.
54
That's awesome.
55
Yeah, thank you.
56
Hey, congratulations.
57
Which is really cool, because that's where my sister lives, but...
58
Amy, I don't know what to say.
59
That's, dude, that's awesome.
60
Congratulations.
61
It doesn't matter.
62
I mean, it's not that big of a deal, and there's no way that I'll go, so it's...
63
What are you talking about?
64
Well, I mean, my mom.
65
I have to help her with the route.
66
What does your mom have to do with this?
67
The route?
68
Yeah, she has the route.
69
She's, like, alone all the time.
70
Yeah, she's alone.
71
Amy, your mom is a grown woman.
72
She, like, she can take care of the paper route herself.
73
You are definitely going to Philly.
74
You're 100 % you're going to Philly.
75
Yeah, I know.
76
Yeah, you are.
77
No, dude, there's no buts about it.
78
Amy, don't you understand?
79
You are this, like, incredibly gifted, genius person, and you got all these people around you telling you that you can't do shit, and that's got to stop.
80
You need to start standing up for yourself.
81
How?
82
How?
83
I'll teach you.
84
Take another swig of that stuff.
85
Get that down there.
86
Down the hatch.
87
OK, now repeat after me.
88
Mom, get off my motherfucking back.
89
What?
90
Yes.
91
No. Yeah, I can't say it Mom hit off my back.
92
No, you gotta do the motherfucking.
93
Yes, you can Do it say it mom get off of my fucking back motherfucking fuck Motherfuck go Yes
94
Who else who else I like this I don't know.
95
Stay out of my motherfucking business, Crystal.
96
Fuck you, Crystal.
97
Yeah, fuck you.
98
What about, uh, like, ex -boyfriends?
99
Say, we need an ex -boyfriend in there.
100
No, I don't have an ex -boyfriend.
101
Who's like an ex -boyfriend that just, like, really pissed you off, that you just, uh, that just, like, you hated?
102
And if they're just, right.
103
I don't have an ex -boyfriend.
104
What?
105
Yeah.
106
You don't have a single, you're 17 years old, you don't have an ex -boyfriend?
107
I know.
108
Really?
109
Some other guys don't look at me like that.
110
Yeah, absolutely guys look at you like that.
111
No, no, no. I just saw two guys looking at you like that.
112
Eric Wolf and Cody Dennis were 100 % hitting on you.
113
No, we were just talking.
114
They were not hitting on me.
115
No, no. There's absolutely no way.
116
Why don't you think they were hitting on you? Because.
117
I'm just, they weren't.
118
Because you're what?
119
Amy, you're absolutely beautiful.
120
Oh my God, no.

Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les

Deze spreekles op niveau B1 is gebaseerd op de video “The Spectacular Now - You are absolutely beautiful”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: mom, boyfriend, motherfucking, amy, route. Deze video bevat 120 zinnen en 657 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 3:37. De spreker praat snel, ongeveer 181 woorden per minuut, dus reken op verbonden en ingeslikte klanken. 88% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is goed te volgen. 33 van de 120 zinnen zijn vragen, dus het is goede oefening voor vraagintonatie en korte antwoorden.

Belangrijke woorden in deze video

De 12 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:

WoordUitspraakBetekenis
congratulations/kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/gefeliciteerd, proficiat
divorce zelfstandig naamwoord/dɪˈvɔːs/echtscheiding
genius zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈd͡ʒin.jəs/genie
bug zelfstandig naamwoord/bʌɡ/wants
airline zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈɛɹˌlaɪn/luchtvaartmaatschappij
hatch werkwoord/hæt͡ʃ/uit het ei komen
sip werkwoord/sɪp/nippen
boyfriend zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈbɔɪˌfɹɛnd/vriend, lief
teach werkwoord/ˈtiːt͡ʃ/aanleren, leren
baseball zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈbeɪs.bɔl/honkbal
pilot zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈpaɪ̯.lət/loods
repeat werkwoord/ɹɪˈpiːt/herhalen, wederhalen

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

WoordBetekenis
get off werkwoordvan ... afgaan
stand up for werkwoordopkomen voor

Zinnen om te herhalen

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

  • Ooh, can I try that?
  • How do you drink that?
  • You know who gave me my first beer?
  • Where does he know, your dad?
  • Why don't you think they were hitting on you?

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 29 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals don't, you're, can't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

  • Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: congratulations /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/, incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/

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. Begin op 0,75× snelheid, spreek zin voor zin na en ga terug naar normale snelheid zodra het makkelijk gaat.
  3. Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als congratulations, divorce, genius.

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.

Shadowing-techniek: lees de volledige stap-voor-stap-gids →