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Donald Trump has effectively killed the Republican Party and his entire MAGA movement, and it is because they are permanently tied to him.

There is no ability for MAGA to create space between themselves and Donald Trump.

It is why these midterms are going to be a wipeout, and it is why Mike Johnson is going to be losing his job.

And considering how unpopular he is within his own caucus in MAGA, I don't think he'll ever have it again.

And that is just hilarious to me.

But that was before what Donald Trump said today.

That reality that exists for Mike Johnson, it has only gotten worse after a shock admission from Donald Trump

that I just cannot believe he made and continues to make.

And it is also all made worse by the fact

that there is a faction of MAGA or former MAGA trying to seize on this moment.

That is what Marjorie Taylor Greene is doing right now.

It's where I want to start before we get to Donald Trump.

completely screwing Mike Johnson.

Explaining to you guys how this is actually going to work.

26 midterms and the 28 presidential race is not going to be anything like 2024, where there was so much support for MAGA.

The coalition came in and got behind Trump.

And here's why.

When the president started telling his own supporters that he didn't want their support, remember that Truth Social post where he said,

my past supporters, and he was calling the Epstein files a hoax.

Yeah, these were women that were talking about

and telling their stories about being raped by these elite rich men when they were 14 and 16 years old.

And then the president fought me and Thomas Massey and all of us who were trying to release the Epstein files, and he called it a Democrat hoax.

Yeah, that's going to be a problem in the midterms.

You know what another problem in the midterms is going to be that is totally broken the entire coalition.

It's calling affordability a hoax.

Yeah, remember when the president called affordability a Democrat hoax?

Same word he used to describe raping girls when they're 14 and 16 years old.

Affordability is not a hoax.

And it's not something that you shame young people like Gen Z, shame them for their work habits and shame them and tell them They need to,

you know, pull themselves up by the bootstraps because it's a lot different for young people today than it was for, say, my generation and the baby boomer generation.

The dollar actually had value 20, 30, 40, 50 years ago.

Now the dollar isn't worth shit.

And that's because Congress won't stop spending the money.

And that's because we have leaders like President Trump who's gone full neocon and just can't back away from war, just can't back away from it.

And that's the third issue there, folks.

You want to know why 26 and 28 is going to be different?

Because Donald Trump broke his big,

big campaign promise of no more foreign wars and actually has got us embroiled in a war with Iran,

a war that should not be happening and he's not backing off of it and it will probably get worse.

So that has fed the affordability crisis.

That's why people can't afford gasoline.

That's why people's bills keep going up.

Food prices are still going up.

Beef is at all times high.

It's ridiculous.

And you don't lecture the people that got you in office.

You don't lecture them and tell them the things they care about as a hoax.

You don't lecture them and call them names like panicans

and tell them that they better come in and pull the coalition together and stop the Democrats.

No. You know what you should have done?

You should have stuck to your campaign promises and you should have delivered for the people that put you in office, not the ones writing you the big fat checks.

Marjorie Taylor Greene is right that MAGA is dead.

And of course, she's saying that because in my mind, and this is just the truth, she is a political opportunist who wants to seize this moment to say

that she should take over the mantle of the real MAGA party

and that Donald Trump has abandoned his values and MAGA would work if it had someone who actually believed it.

Now, of course, this is bullshit.

Donald Trump has run this same playbook he did in 2015.

He did in 2024.

Like, Donald Trump has done this a lot.

This is what you always see with conservatives or wannabe authoritarians.

We just need to go back to an older time when everything was good, wasn't it?

Nostalgia doesn't really paint a full picture.

But that's what Marjorie Taylor Greene is trying to do because she is a political opportunist.

But Donald Trump has given her countless opportunities to rag on her old party.

And the latest one might be the stupidest yet.

What Donald Trump had to say about one of the most unpopular issues out there, and that's data centers.

There are several Republicans who are running for midterms this year who are starting to come out against AI data centers.

Why do you think they're taking a different approach than you are?

Well, who are they?

Do you know?

The Senate race in Ohio is one example where it's become a very hot topic.

Well, the data center subject to me is a pretty simple one.

If you pick the right location, and it's got to be not every location is perfect for it, but you pick the right location,

what it means for a community is jobs and lots of money and lower taxes.

And the data centers now are mandated by me that they build their own electricity, so they're not taking it from the grid.

It's going to lower the electric cost because they're building electricity.

And the extra, as an example, we talked about this once.

I'm very proud of it.

It was my idea.

They're going to build their own electric producing facility.

And that electricity that they have left over is going to the grid.

It's going to lower the cost of electricity.

So if I were a community, I would want the data center.

It means jobs, it means income, and it means lower taxes.

Do you want Republican candidates to take the same AI to take the same message on data centers that you are?

No, I want them to do what they want.

Some people feel differently.

I really want them.

If a Republican is against the data center, that's okay with me.

I'm only saying that if I ran a community, now there are different types of communities, but generally speaking, if I ran a community,

if I was a mayor or if I was a governor in the state, I would want to have the data centers because they bring tremendous income.

They're clean.

They produce their own energy.

The new ones are producing their own energy.

I would want to have data centers.

Donald Trump coming out in support of data centers is maybe just the biggest mistake possible right now.

I cannot think of many more things more unpopular than AI,

data centers, flat cameras, all of which Donald Trump is completely on board with.

And I think there was a kind of a reorganization of MAGA against the tech elite

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that have now come into bed with Donald Trump and his administration that is playing out right now, right?

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For the longest time, MAGA was, you know, anti the surveillance state, or at least again, they claim to be.

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They were anti big tech.

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They didn't want them to have their data, you know, to stay out of my life, you know, the big government, all those things.

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That was their message.

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Now they're doing complete data surveillance.

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The Palantir guy picked the vice president and tells Trump what to do.

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And he's going full data center.

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This is insanity.

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Why?

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It's because Larry Ellison has given him lots of money.

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He bought CBS for him.

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He bought TikTok.

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Larry Ellison is doing everything he can to help Donald Trump.

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And Oracle has benefited tremendously by these data centers.

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And so are the rest of the oligarchs.

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And so Donald Trump is endorsing data centers.

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Maybe the most unpopular thing right now.

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And that is just driving a stake into Mike Johnson

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and any effort that Republicans could have at this point to keep the House.

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It's just not going to happen.

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If Donald Trump is aligning himself on the side of like the most unpopular thing right now, it's really done for them.

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Like this is an admission that kills.

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This is this is like you could call it a gaffe.

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But like Donald Trump is a walking gaffe.

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All he says is stupid.

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But if I was a Democrat, I would run that again and again and again.

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I would want a data center, says Donald Trump, who doesn't have a data center by Mar-a-Lago.

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And he doesn't have a data center by the White House.

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And he doesn't have a data center in New York nowhere

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that Donald Trump goes or will go has a data center near it.

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And he doesn't care about electric costs because he stole $3.2 billion during the presidency.

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So that is a clip as a Democrat that I would run over and over and over and over again.

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And you know it's bad because Republicans are trying to run away from the data centers, at least publicly, but they're getting caught.

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And Abdul Al-Sayed exposed his opponent, Mike Rogers, in his lies.

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This is what our party should be doing.

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Opponent Republican Mike Rogers is calling for a one year moratorium.

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This is new.

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What do you think?

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Tell us about for people who are just tuning into this race

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and trying to understand how this issue is playing in states across the country.

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How is that going to sit with the people of Michigan?

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Where do you stand on it?

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How are how are Michigan voters digesting this issue?

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You know, let me just step back and set this up.

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This comes just a couple of days after there was some really embarrassing reporting in Lever News about the fact

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that this guy and his wife are knee deep in investments in the AI industry.

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And the article was specifically about how much money they might

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make from a data center bonanza with this no holds barred approach that we've got right now.

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And so he's at this press conference where he's touting all eight Democrats who support him in somebody's front yard

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and he gets asked by a really smart, enterprising local reporter, Craig Mogher, from the Detroit News about his position on data centers.

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And the man clearly hasn't actually thought about his position on data centers

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because he does whatever Donald Trump or the corporations tell him to do.

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And he's like, I think we should take a pause.

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And then his team trying to make up for the fact

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that he just made policy from the hip because he hasn't taken the time to think about it, issue a press release calling for a statewide moratorium.

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But guess what?

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He's running for U.S.

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Senate, meaning he can't actually do anything at the state level.

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These aren't serious people.

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These are corporate shills who are bought off by the companies who stand to benefit at our loss.

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And he's stuck, again, between what the voters actually want and what Donald Trump and the corporations who control him want.

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And so he's shooting from the hip because, for him, he'd rather not actually answer questions.

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This is what happens when he doesn't dodge.

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He took one question and it ended up in, like, policy turmoil.

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So this clown car of a campaign trying to tout their

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support from Democrats gets caught not having an actual position Proposes a position they can't actually do anything about

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which is Contrapositive to what he actually has said his entire campaign

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and we benefits from So all of that is to say

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that at the end of the day

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if we're not serious about getting money out of politics We're not going to be serious about solving real problems.

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I've been clear from the jump I believe in a terms of engagement We need to make sure

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that any data center proposed at any level in any place follows the following terms that they use union labor,

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all union labor, that there is no increase in our utility rates, that they don't touch our water supplies,

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that the money that is taken by utility is invested in improving our reliability,

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and that there is a clear community benefits agreement so that every local community gets made rich if, in fact, they choose to include one of these in their community.

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That's real policy, unlike the clown car shoot from the hip public policy from corrupted Mike Rogers.

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That's why you need a debate.

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He's not going to pull punches.

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Like, I think Abdul wants to get in the pads and, like, run an Oklahoma drill with this guy.

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He fucking hates him.

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And I love that because he's a bad person who has worked for the pharmaceutical companies in and out of Congress.

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He moved to Florida.

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He's not a Michigan guy.

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And of course, he's going to let the data centers pop up all over your community

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because he doesn't give a shit and it will only help him and his rich friends.

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So, yeah, this is the issue that Democrats should obviously be running on.

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And the fact that Donald Trump is team data center is not a surprise, but it probably is to Mike

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He's probably not happy about it because again Republicans can't escape Donald Trump Republicans are Donald Trump.

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Nobody can argue against that And so our party needs to tie these things together

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Every single person with an art of their name should be tied to Donald Trump.

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They should be tied data centers They should be tied to the files They should be tied to the war

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and that's gonna tie him down and they're gonna lose

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and that's beautiful to me and that's that's That's a career ending for Mike Johnson.

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So we are going to keep on calling it out on this show.

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If you want to support that, as always, you can hit that subscribe button, leave a like on this video.

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If you stuck around at the end, drop a blue heart in the comments.

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Keep on fighting, y'all.

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Don't let them silence you.

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And until next time, I'll see you soon.

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Deze spreekles op niveau B2 is gebaseerd op de video “This ENDS Mike's Majority”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: Trump, center, Donald, Maga. Deze video bevat 199 zinnen en 2481 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 13:31. De spreker praat snel, ongeveer 184 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 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:

Woord	Uitspraak	Betekenis
midterm bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/ˈmɪdˌtɚm/	tussentijds
unpopular bijvoeglijk naamwoord		impopulair
affordability zelfstandig naamwoord		betaalbaarheid
lecture zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈlɛk.t͡ʃə/	lezing, college
gaffe zelfstandig naamwoord	/ɡæf/	blunder, uitschuiver
moratorium zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˌmɔ.ɹəˈtɔ.ɹi.əm/	moratorium
opportunist zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˌɒpə(ɹ)ˈtjuːnɪst/	opportunist, opportuniste
tout werkwoord	/taʊt/	klanten lokken scharrelen, verhandelen
seize werkwoord	/ˈsiːz/	grijpen, vangen
clown zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈklaʊ̯n/	clown
supporter zelfstandig naamwoord	/səˈpɔɹ.tɚ/	partijganger, partijgangster
voter zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈvoʊtɚ/	stemmer, stemster
surveillance zelfstandig naamwoord	/sɚˈveɪ.ləns/	bewaking
grid zelfstandig naamwoord	/ɡɹɪd/	raster
opponent zelfstandig naamwoord	/əˈpəʊ.nənt/	opponent

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

Woord	Betekenis
buy off werkwoord	afkopen, omkopen
pop up werkwoord	opduiken, te voorschijn komen
run over werkwoord	te lang doorbijlopen
take over werkwoord	overnemen

Zinnen om te herhalen

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

You know what you should have done?
Why do you think they're taking a different approach than you are?
I'm very proud of it.
What do you think?
Where do you stand on it?

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 were a community, I would want · if I was a Democrat, I would run
Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt	has only gotten · has fed · has abandoned
Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet	being raped · are mandated · are bought
Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding	someone who actually · people who are · person who has

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 47 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals they're, doesn't, can't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

De klanken “sh” en “zh”: admission /ədˈmɪʃən/, faction /ˈfæk.ʃən/
Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: moratorium /ˌmɔ.ɹəˈtɔ.ɹi.əm/, opportunist /ˌɒpə(ɹ)ˈtjuːnɪst/, authoritarian /əˌθɑ.ɹəˈtɛɹ.i.ən/, insanity /ɪnˈsænɪti/, pharmaceutical /ˌfɑː.məˈs(j)uː.tɪ.kl̩/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: seize /ˈsiːz/, grid /ɡɹɪd/, statewide /steɪtˈwaɪd/, dodge /dɑd͡ʒ/, expose /ɪkˈspoʊz/
/æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: gaffe /ɡæf/, bonanza /bəˈnæn.zə/, bootstrap /ˈbuːtˌstɹæp/, embarrass /ɪmˈbæɹəs/, nostalgia /nɑˈstæld͡ʒə/
/g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: gaffe /ɡæf/, grid /ɡɹɪd/, oligarch /ˈɑləɡɑɹk/, gasoline /ˈɡæs.ə.liːn/

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Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als midterm, unpopular, affordability.

Wat is de Shadowing-techniek?

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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les

Belangrijke woorden in deze video

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

Zinnen om te herhalen

Grammatica in deze video

Uitspraak om op te letten

Zo oefen je met deze video

Wat is de Shadowing-techniek?