Shadowing Practice: this is enough. - Learn English Speaking with Video
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What is fear?
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It's this expectation that the pain of yesterday is going to happen today.
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What are schemas if not these rigid thoughts that I created in order to anticipate the pains of one's yesterday,
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of one's childhood?
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This fear of dying alone,
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of being alone, of being unworthy, it's always anticipatory.
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Convinced that I can somehow avoid it through hard work,
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validation, success, or whatever, I nonetheless feel that in the end it will all inevitably lead to the same results.
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Because these expectancies, these results,
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are based on the past.
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A past I can barely recall, let alone alter.
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I can't think myself out of this one.
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It's this exhausting, never-ending attempt to rationalize everything about myself.
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Like, you know, you keep sharpening a pencil,
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it's eventually going to run out.
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Only then, when I do all of this thinking,
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do I think, oh wow, I've solved myself.
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So I attach to ideas,
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philosophies, theories, people, half-baked images of the better me.
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They fit into a logic,
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they make sense, and they give me a sort of security.
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And when they're threatened, that's where I feel the fear.
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I act out of fear, out of desperation.
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Instead of confronting these fears,
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going through them, I go around them.
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I avoid vulnerability.
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I do not open up,
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and so I do not let anyone in.
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In the end, I cannot love.
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Love and fear cannot coexist.
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I fear myself, and so I cannot love myself.
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I didn't find myself in Patagonia.
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In fact, the whole trip was nothing more than the same old me doing the same old things in a new place.
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But it gave me the false sense that I had.
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This spectacle of interesting people,
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interesting places, nonetheless left me unchanged.
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One New Yorker writer likens travel to a boomerang,
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it brings you right back to where you started.
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Yes, I did begin to feel better,
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and I feel much better now,
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but this was only months after I realized that traveling all the way to the ends of the earth wouldn't fix me.
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A relationship wouldn't fix me.
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Universal admiration wouldn't fix me.
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And eventually I came to realize that nothing would fix me.
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That's because this entire time I saw myself as a problem to be fixed,
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to be solved, to be reduced to a formula.
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Self-help books, philosophies, religions, they give me an objective answer to the question of who I should be.
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There is something impersonal about this technique.
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Anyone can apply the formula.
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Embedded within its own cluster of genetics,
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interactions, experiences, and social influence,
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how could I possibly apply a generic answer to the deeply personal question of who I am?
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Being, then, is not a problem to be solved,
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but rather a mystery to be experienced.
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And only I can actively engage in this mystery.
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I have lived a life in captivity,
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an existence in which I have time and time again surrendered to these abstractions,
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these limits I've put on myself,
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and this is why I was so miserable,
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driven by fear, bound to these ideas of who I am.
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In doing so, I had neglected a sort of formless reflection involved in the present.
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I had denied a receptivity to the world,
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both externally and internally, in the service of maintaining these rigid self-beliefs.
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Most of all, I had denied myself a certain unity with existence,
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a unity crucial in understanding this mystery.
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I had become a slave to myself.
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This captivity was apparent in my relationships.
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I failed to open myself up because I had locked myself into this idea of who I am,
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an idea that I needed to retain in the hopes of solving myself.
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And so I was never with someone truly.
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I was always separate in the sense of hierarchy where I would see myself as superior or inferior,
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but I wasn't with them side by side.
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I had denied myself the ability to truly be with someone as a friend or lover,
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with each of us bonded by a fellowship larger than ourselves.
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This could only happen if I freed myself,
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if I opened myself up to both give and be given to.
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I must be strong enough to give and even stronger to ask for what I truly want.
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My thoughts and schemas have directed my life to this point.
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They themselves are driven by desire and fear.
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By counter-attacking and escaping, I follow my desires and my fears.
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I fear this, I desire that,
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but there's something else that has driven me.
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I'm not sure what it is exactly,
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but it's the whole reason why I made this.
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It's the whole reason why I'm still here.
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And I don't know if it's an implicit part of human nature or an act of choice,
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and hey, maybe it's a complete illusion.
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It simply tells me that this is worth it in some sense.
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I have faith that something good will come of this, whatever this is.
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I suppose I have faith in living still, and still trying.
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This is Marcel's idea of a strange hope.
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Hope consists in asserting that there is at the heart of being,
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beyond all data, beyond all inventories at all calculations of a serious principle which is in connivance with me.
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It is desire open-ended,
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an act of patience directed towards some form of salvation without any say in what such salvation will look like.
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It involves a commitment to humility
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which in other terms means a return to the present and the admission that I know very little about myself or others.
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You know, people hold on to these images of father,
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mother, husband, wife, again, for the same reason,
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because they seem to provide some firm ground.
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But there's no wife there.
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What does that mean?
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A wife, a husband, a son.
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A baby holds your hands,
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and then suddenly there's this huge man lifting you off the ground,
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and then he's gone.
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Where's that sun?
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All I know is that I don't actually know who I am.
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And that is okay.
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I never will.
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In fact, it is in those moments,
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in deep conversation, in love,
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face to face with beauty.
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Those moments where I've entirely lost myself.
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Where who I am no longer matters.
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A simple thought flashes.
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This is enough.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau C1 is gebaseerd op de video “this is enough”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: fear, desire, fix, sense. Deze video bevat 117 zinnen en 1067 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 7:17. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 147 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. Slechts 79% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is pittig.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| captivity zelfstandig naamwoord | /kæpˈtɪvɪti/ | gevangenschap |
| rigid bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈɹɪd͡ʒ.ɪd/ | stijf, stroef |
| salvation zelfstandig naamwoord | /sælˈveɪ.ʃn̩/ | verlossing |
| nonetheless bijwoord | /ˌnʌnðəˈlɛs/ | niettemin |
| abstraction zelfstandig naamwoord | /æbˈstɹæk.ʃn̩/ | abstractie |
| boomerang zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈbuːməɹæŋ/ | boemerang |
| coexist werkwoord | /ˌkoʊ.ɪɡˈzɪst/ | co-existeren, samengaan |
| formless bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈfɔɹmləs/ | vormloos |
| impersonal bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ɪmˈpɝsənəl/ | onpersoonlijk |
| implicit bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ɪmˈplɪsɪt/ | impliciet |
| receptivity zelfstandig naamwoord | ontvankelijkheid | |
| sharpen werkwoord | /ˈʃɑɹpən/ | scherpen, slijpen |
| humility zelfstandig naamwoord | /hjuːˈmɪlɪti/ | nederigheid, deemoed |
| admiration zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˌæd.məˈɹeɪ.ʃən/ | bewondering |
| spectacle zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈspɛktəkl̩/ | spektakel |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Betekenis |
|---|---|
| run out werkwoord | niet meer hebben |
Zinnen om te herhalen
Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:
- I can't think myself out of this one.
- A relationship wouldn't fix me.
- Universal admiration wouldn't fix me.
- It's the whole reason why I'm still here.
- Those moments where I've entirely lost myself.
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 based · be fixed · be solved |
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | I've solved · have lived · I've put |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 14 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I've, wouldn't, don't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De “th”-klanken: nonetheless /ˌnʌnðəˈlɛs/, unworthy /ʌnˈwɝði/, threaten /ˈθɹɛt.n̩/
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: salvation /sælˈveɪ.ʃn̩/, abstraction /æbˈstɹæk.ʃn̩/, rationalize /ˈɹæʃənəlaɪz/, sharpen /ˈʃɑɹpən/, desperation /ˌdɛspəˈɹeɪʃən/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: captivity /kæpˈtɪvɪti/, anticipatory /ænˌtɪsəpəˈtɔri/, expectancy /ɪkˈspɛktənsi/, impersonal /ɪmˈpɝsənəl/, rationalize /ˈɹæʃənəlaɪz/
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 captivity, rigid, salvation.
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.