Shadowing Practice: There Is No Such Thing As Failure - Oprah Winfrey Speech to Young People - Learn English Speaking with Video
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I want you to know this, remember this, there is no such thing as failure.
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Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.
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It doesn't matter how far you might rise, at some point you are bound to stumble because if you're constantly doing what we do,
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raising the bar, if you are constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages, not to mention the myth of Icarus,
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predicts that you will at some point fall.
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And when you do, I want you to know this.
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Remember this.
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There is no such thing as failure.
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Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.
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Now, when you're down there in a hole, it looks like failure.
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So this past year, I had to spoon feed those words to myself.
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And when you're down in the hole, when that moment comes it's really okay to feel bad for a little
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while give yourself time to mourn what you think you may have lost
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but then here's the key learn from every mistake
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because every experience encounter and particularly your mistakes are there to cheat you
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and force you into being more of who you are
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and then figure out what is the next right move
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and the key to life is to develop an internal moral emotional GPS
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that can tell you which way to go
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and in 1986 I launched my own television show with a relentless determination to succeed at first
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I was nervous about the competition and then I I became my own competition, raising the bar every year,
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pushing, pushing, pushing myself as hard as I knew.
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Sound familiar to anybody here?
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Eventually, we did make it to the top, and we stayed there for 25 years.
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The Oprah Winfrey Show was number one in our time slot for 21 years, and I have to tell you,
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I became pretty comfortable with that level of success.
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But a few years ago, I decided, as you will at some point, that it was time to recalculate,
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find new territory, break new ground.
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So I ended the show and launched OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network.
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The initials just worked out for me.
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So one year later, after launching on,
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nearly every media outlet had proclaimed that my new venture was a flop.
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Not just a flop, but a big bold flop, they call it.
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I can still remember the day I opened up USA Today and read the headline,
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Oprah not quite standing on her own.
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I mean really USA Today now that's the nice newspaper
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it really was this time last year the worst period in my professional life I was stressed
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and I was frustrated and quite frankly I was I was actually I was embarrassed
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and the words came to me trouble trouble don't last always from that hymn, this too shall pass.
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And I thought I am gonna turn this thing around and I will be better for it.
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So I'm here today to tell you I have turned that network around.
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And as a young girl from rural Mississippi I learned long ago
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that being myself was much easier than pretending to be Barbara Walters.
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although when I first started
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because I had Barbara in my head I would try to sit like Barbara talk like Barbara move like Barbara
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and then one night I was on the news reading the news
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and I called Canada Canada and
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that was the end of me being Barbara I cracked myself up on TV couldn't stop laughing
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and my real personality came through
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and I figured out oh gee I can be a much better Oprah than I could be a pretend Barbara.
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But no matter what challenges or setbacks or disappointments you may encounter along the way,
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you will find true success and happiness if you have only one goal.
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There really is only one, and that is this.
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To fulfill the highest, most truthful expression of yourself as a human being.
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You want to max out your humanity.
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by using your energy to lift yourself up, your family, and the people around you.
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Theologian Howard Thurman said it best.
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He said, don't ask yourself what.. the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that.
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Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
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I have to say
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that the single most important lesson I learned in 25 years talking every single day to people was
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that there is a common denominator in our human experience.
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Most of us, I tell you, we don't want to be divided.
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What we want, the common denominator that I found in every single interview, is we want to be validated.
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We want to be understood.
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I've done over 35 ,000 interviews in my career and as soon as that camera shuts off
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Everyone always turns to me and inevitably in their own way ask this question.
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Was that okay?
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I heard it from President Bush.
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I heard it from President Obama.
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I've heard it from heroes and from housewives.
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I've heard it from victims and perpetrators of crimes.
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I even heard it from Beyonce and all of her Beyonce -ness.
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She finishes performing, hands me the microphone and says, was that okay?
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They all want to know one thing.
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Was that okay?
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Did you hear me? Do you see me?
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Did what I say mean anything to you?
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From time to time you may stumble, fall.
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You will for sure count on this no doubt you will have questions
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and you will have doubts about your path but I know this
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if you're willing to listen to be guided by
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that still small voice
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that is the GPS within yourself to find out what makes
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you come alive you will be more than okay you will be happy you will be successful and
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you will make a difference in the world
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles is gebaseerd op de video “There Is No Such Thing As Failure - Oprah Winfrey Speech to Young People”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: Barbara, failure, heard, Oprah, pushing. Deze video bevat 86 zinnen en 991 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 7:15. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 137 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. 85% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
15 woorden uit de video die het leren waard zijn, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| flop werkwoord | /flɑp/ | instorten, inzakken |
| pretend werkwoord | /pɹəˈtɛnd/ | voorgeven |
| encounter werkwoord | /ɪnˈkaʊntɚ/ | ontmoeten, stuiten op |
| lesson zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈlɛs.ən/ | les |
| moral bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈmoɹəl/ | moreel |
| happiness zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈhæpinɪs/ | blijheid, blijdschap |
| crack zelfstandig naamwoord | /kɹæk/ | barst, breuk |
| humanity zelfstandig naamwoord | /hjuˈmænɪti/ | mensheid, mensdom |
| bold bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈbəʊld/ | moedig |
| venture werkwoord | /ˈvɛn.t͡ʃɚ/ | avonturieren |
| divide werkwoord | /dɪˈvaɪd/ | verdelen |
| myth zelfstandig naamwoord | /mɪθ/ | mythe |
| predict werkwoord | /pɹɪˈdɪkt/ | voorspellen |
| cheat werkwoord | /ˈt͡ʃiːt/ | valsspelen, bedriegen |
| embarrassed bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ɪmˈbæɹ.əst/ | in verlegenheid gebracht |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Betekenis |
|---|---|
| figure out werkwoord | uitvogelen, er achter komen |
| find out werkwoord | ontdekken, onderzoeken |
Zinnen om te herhalen
Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:
- I've heard it from heroes and from housewives.
- I've heard it from victims and perpetrators of crimes.
- She finishes performing, hands me the microphone and says, was that okay?
- Did you hear me?
- Did what I say mean anything to you?
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | are bound · was frustrated · be divided |
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | have turned · have come · I've done |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 14 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals you're, don't, I've. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De “th”-klanken: myth /mɪθ/, theologian /ˌθi.əˈloʊd͡ʒən/, truthful /ˈtɹuːθ.f(ə)l/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: humanity /hjuˈmænɪti/, determination /dɪˌtɜːmɪˈneɪʃən/, disappointment /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪntmənt/, inevitably /ɪˈnɛvɪtəbli/, denominator /dɪˈnɒmɪneɪtə(ɹ)/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: pretend /pɹəˈtɛnd/, succeed /səkˈsiːd/, bold /ˈbəʊld/, divide /dɪˈvaɪd/, bind /ˈbaɪ̯nd/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: happiness /ˈhæpinɪs/, crack /kɹæk/, humanity /hjuˈmænɪti/, embarrassed /ɪmˈbæɹ.əst/, frankly /fɹæŋkli/
Zo oefen je met deze video
- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
- Spreek zin voor zin na op normale snelheid en herhaal elke zin tot je ritme gelijk is aan dat van de spreker.
- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als flop, pretend, encounter.
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.