Shadowing Practice: Tony: A Soldier’s Journey - Learn English Speaking with Video
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In the fall of 1944, U.S.
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Army medic Anthony Tony Acevedo was sent to fight in Europe during World War II.
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He served in the 275th Infantry Regiment, 70th Infantry Division, known as the Trailblazers.
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In freezing temperatures and heavy snow, along with 600,000 fellow Americans, he faced a ferocious German offensive in the Battle of the Bulge.
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During the brutal six-week battle between December 1944 and January 1945, tens of thousands were killed or wounded.
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It was Tony's first combat experience, and he bravely tended to the wounded under machine gun fire.
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We went to battle and on my assignment, I headed with Company B and I just followed.
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I carried my duffel bag and all my equipment with me and
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everybody used to laugh at me and yell at me and say, Anthony, drop that, drop all that stuff.
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They're gonna kill you.
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You're a sore thumb, you.
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I said, no, this is, that's gonna save my life.
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We were marching towards a ridge and I heard an echo.
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Medic!
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Medic!
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Because there were machine guns going on back and forth
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and I was carrying my stuff with me so finally I picked up the sound and I started to head downhill.
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Then I saw up ahead a cave with Germans.
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Well, there were about six Germans in there with machine guns.
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I mean just you thought there were thousands of them.
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and at that time when they start shooting at me, my stuff went up in the air, my duffel bag and everything.
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I fell on the ground and crawled to my helmet.
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And before I knew it, I was with the fellas that were wounded.
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I had my prayer book with me and I would use some phrases that wouldn't be too long, but enough for that person,
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that soldier, to motivate him, make him feel motivated, feel free of fear.
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That's what he was.
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He was afraid.
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The Germans were getting closer and closer.
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We ran out of ammunition until finally we were caught when the Germans came up the hill and we had to surrender.
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When the Germans took us, they forced us to get our boots off and walk down the slope barefooted in the snow.
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It was up to our waist and marched for about almost a mile to the trucks.
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They were sent to Stalag 9B, a camp for prisoners of war near Bad Orb, Germany.
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Tony became prisoner number 27016.
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Conditions in the crowded camp were terrible.
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Tony used the limited medical supplies that he had managed to save in order to treat the sick and wounded.
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In January 1945, German officers began identifying and separating Jewish POWs
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and those whom they believed to be Jews from the rest of the American soldiers.
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Tony was also separated, perhaps because he was Mexican-American.
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The newly separated group, including Tony, were then transported to Berga under Elster, a forced labor camp in Germany.
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Much like the conditions in the prisoner of war camp, food was scarce and prisoners were given little sustenance for the hard days of forced labor.
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The bread was a mix of barley with sawdust, ground glass and ground sand.
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It would make you sick to the stomach.
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Disease and malnutrition would soon plague the American prisoners.
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On one occasion we received a package, a Red Cross package, and that's how I got my diary.
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Throughout his time in the camp, Tony kept a secret diary of his experiences.
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He wrote in it nearly every day.
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In it, he recorded how his group were forced to clear tunnels to make way for an underground factory
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that Nazi officials hoped would be out of sight of Allied bombers.
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March 21, 1945.
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More planes came over today.
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Their bombs were dropped not very far from here.
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Another one of our boys is pretty low today.
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He's not expected to live to light.
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April 3rd, 1945.
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Excellent news today.
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Americans are only a hundred kilometers from here.
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Rumors are that we are to be moved away.
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When the Nazi guards realized that the American troops were closing in, they evacuated the POWs from Berga on a forced march.
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April 9th, 1945.
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We marched 10 kilometers today.
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We started out with 304 men.
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Now we have 287.
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April 20th to 22nd, 1945.
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Day and night, it rained.
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Every man was wet from top to bottom.
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Every 25 yards there lay three or four men.
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Men that couldn't make the march had to drop out.
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They were shot.
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April 23, 1945.
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We were liberated today.
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Of the 350 American POWs at Berga under Elster, approximately 70 died.
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Most of them died or were executed during the forced evacuation of the camp.
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Tony's fountain pen miraculously endured his imprisonment.
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It allowed him to secretly document his first-hand account of life as an American prisoner of war in Germany,
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and would bear witness to the dates and causes of his fellow soldiers' deaths.
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This was, he explained, his moral obligation.
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God gave me that ink to last.
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Thank you.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau B2 is gebaseerd op de video “Tony: A Soldier’s Journey”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: German, prisoner, Tony, camp, forced. Deze video bevat 78 zinnen en 828 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 6:50. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 121 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. Slechts 80% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| prisoner zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈpɹɪzənə/ | gevangene |
| duffel zelfstandig naamwoord | /dʌfəl/ | duffel |
| motivate werkwoord | /ˈmoʊ.tɪ.veɪt/ | motiveren |
| diary zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈdaɪ.ə.ɹi/ | dagboek |
| barley zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈbɑɹli/ | gerst |
| ferocious bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /fəˈɹoʊʃəs/ | woest, wild |
| liberate werkwoord | /ˈlɪbəˌɹeɪt/ | bevrijden |
| malnutrition zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˌmæl.nuˈtɹɪʃ.ən/ | ondervoeding |
| evacuate werkwoord | /ɪˈvæk.ju.eɪt/ | evacueren |
| scarce bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈskɛɚs/ | schaars |
| downhill bijwoord | /ˌdaʊnˈhɪl/ | bergaf |
| rumor zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɹumɚ/ | gerucht |
| evacuation zelfstandig naamwoord | /ɪˌvækjuˈeɪʃən/ | evacuatie |
| endure werkwoord | /ɪnˈd͡ʒʊə(ɹ)/ | voortduren |
| yell werkwoord | /jɛl/ | schreeuwen |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Betekenis |
|---|---|
| come over werkwoord | langskomen |
| pick up werkwoord | oppakken, optillen |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 6 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals gonna, couldn't, they're. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: ferocious /fəˈɹoʊʃəs/, malnutrition /ˌmæl.nuˈtɹɪʃ.ən/, evacuation /ɪˌvækjuˈeɪʃən/, ammunition /ˌæmjuˈnɪʃən/, obligation /ˌɑ.blɪˈɡeɪ.ʃn̩/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: malnutrition /ˌmæl.nuˈtɹɪʃ.ən/, miraculously /məˈɹækjələsli/, evacuate /ɪˈvæk.ju.eɪt/, evacuation /ɪˌvækjuˈeɪʃən/, ammunition /ˌæmjuˈnɪʃən/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: barefooted /ˈbɛɚ.fʊt.ɪd/, plague /plɛɡ/, freeze /ˈfɹiːz/, ridge /ɹɪd͡ʒ/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: malnutrition /ˌmæl.nuˈtɹɪʃ.ən/, miraculously /məˈɹækjələsli/, evacuate /ɪˈvæk.ju.eɪt/, evacuation /ɪˌvækjuˈeɪʃən/, ammunition /ˌæmjuˈnɪʃən/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: plague /plɛɡ/, obligation /ˌɑ.blɪˈɡeɪ.ʃn̩/
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 prisoner, duffel, motivate.
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.