Shadowing Practice: The Value of TIME - Powerful Motivational Speech - Learn English Speaking with Video
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When asked what's the biggest mistake we make in life, the Buddha replied, the biggest mistake is you think you have time.
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Time is free, but it's priceless.
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You can't own it, but you can use it.
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You can't keep it, but you can spend it.
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And once it's lost, you can never get it back.
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The average person lives 78 years.
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We spend 28 .3 years of our life sleeping.
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That's almost a third of our life, but 30 % of us struggle to sleep well.
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We spend 10 .5 years of our life working, but over 50 % of us want to leave our current jobs.
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Time is more valuable than money.
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You can get more money, but you can never get more time.
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We spend nine years on TV and social media.
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We spend six years doing chores.
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We spend four years eating and drinking.
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We spend three and a half years in education.
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We spend two and a half years grooming.
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We spend two and a half years shopping.
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We spend one and a half years in childcare and we spend 1 .3 years commuting.
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That leaves us with nine years.
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How will we spend that time?
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Steve Jobs said your time is limited so don't waste it living someone else's life.
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So there's good news and there's bad news.
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The bad news is time flies, the good news is you're the pilot.
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Imagine you wake up every day with $86 ,400 in your bank account
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and at the end of the night it's all gone.
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Whether you spent it or not.
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And then the next day you get another $86 ,400.
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What would we do with it?
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Every day 86 ,400 seconds are deposited into your life account.
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At the end of the day, once they're all used up, you get a new 86 ,400 seconds.
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We would never waste it if it was money.
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So why do we waste it when it comes to time?
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Those seconds are so much more powerful than dollars because you can always make more dollars, you can't always make more time.
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To realise the value of one year, ask a student who failed a grade.
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To realise the value of one month, ask a mother who lost her child in the final month.
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To realise the value of one week, ask the editor of an online magazine.
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To realise the value of one hour, ask the couple who's in a long distance relationship.
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To realize the value of one minute, ask the person who just missed a bus, train or plane
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To realize the value of one second, ask the person who just missed an accident
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And to realize the value of a millisecond,
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ask the person who just came second at the Olympics We think that it's people wasting our time,
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that it's really us giving them the permission to do that and in reality these two people live inside us.
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Don't let someone be a priority when all you are to them is an option.
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Some of us lose the people most important to us because we don't value their time.
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Some of us don't recognize how important someone is to us until they're gone.
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Inside all of us are two voices.
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One voice that wants to uplift, one voice that wants us to expand, one voice that wants us to grow and then there's the other voice,
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the voice that holds us back, the voice that makes us lazy, the voice that makes us complacent, the voice that restricts us from our potential.
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Every day from the moment we wake up to the moment
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we go to sleep inside of us there's this battle between the two voices and guess which one wins?
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The one that we listen to the most, the one that we feed, the one that we amplify.
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It is our choice of how we use our time.
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Life and time are the best two teachers.
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Life teaches us to make good use of time and time teaches us the value of life.
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And as William Shakespeare said, time is very slow for those who want, very fast for those who are scared,
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very long for those who are sad very short for those who celebrate but for those who love time is eternal
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles is gebaseerd op de video “The Value of TIME - Powerful Motivational Speech”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: spend, voice, value, realise, waste. Deze video bevat 56 zinnen en 703 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 4:38. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 152 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. 94% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is goed te volgen.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
14 woorden uit de video die het leren waard zijn, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| priority zelfstandig naamwoord | /pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/ | voorrang, prioriteit |
| expand werkwoord | /ɪkˈspænd/ | vergroten, uitbreiden |
| deposit zelfstandig naamwoord | /dɪˈpɑ.zɪt/ | afzetting, neerzetting |
| lazy bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈleɪ̯zi(ː)/ | lui, werkschuw |
| leaf zelfstandig naamwoord | /lif/ | blad |
| eternal bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ɪˈtɝ.nl̩/ | eeuwig, eindeloos |
| scare werkwoord | /skɛɚ/ | bang maken, beangstigen |
| restrict werkwoord | /ɹɪˈstɹɪkt/ | beperken, begrenzen |
| priceless bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈpɹaɪslɪs/ | van onschatbare waarde |
| amplify werkwoord | /ˈæm.plə.faɪ/ | versterken, vergroten |
| childcare zelfstandig naamwoord | kinderopvang | |
| chore zelfstandig naamwoord | /t͡ʃoɹ/ | taak |
| complacent bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /kəmˈpleɪsənt/ | zelfgenoegzaam, makkelijk |
| millisecond zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈmɪlɪˌsɛkənd/ | milliseconde |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| wake up werkwoord | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | wakker worden, ontwaken |
Zinnen om te herhalen
Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:
- You can't own it, but you can use it.
- You can't keep it, but you can spend it.
- How will we spend that time?
- What would we do with it?
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 10 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals don't, can't, they're. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: priority /pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/, millisecond /ˈmɪlɪˌsɛkənd/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: expand /ɪkˈspænd/, millisecond /ˈmɪlɪˌsɛkənd/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: expand /ɪkˈspænd/, amplify /ˈæm.plə.faɪ/
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 priority, expand, deposit.
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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.