Shadowing Practice: Tuvalu’s Battle with Climate Change - BTN High - Learn English Speaking with Video
Les maken...
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I grew up in Tuvalu and I was also born there.
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Life in Tuvalu is very easy and it's beautiful.
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We have coconut trees.
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When it's hot they go swimming, fishing.
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And cooking the traditional food, the language and the cultural dance.
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It's very important so that we can keep our traditional culture on going.
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Poeva and Akisa are sisters from the small Pacific nation of Tuvalu,
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which is around 4,000 kilometres northeast of Australia.
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It's made up of a group of nine small islands and is home to around 11,000 people.
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But despite their love for their home country, many Tuvaluans, like Poweva and Akisa, have made the tough decision to leave.
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My family moved here to Australia for better opportunities, like, especially for education and work.
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And the climate change is also affecting Tuvalu, so moving here makes us feel more safer about our future.
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Climate change and sea level rise, It's, like, affecting our houses, so that's why we came in.
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Like, strong winds happened, like, lately, and it's destroying our houses, and the sea level rise, it's, like, flooding everywhere.
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I don't want to see my country disappear.
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At its highest, Tuvalu is only about 4.5 metres above sea level.
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So, as sea levels rise due to climate change, Tuvalu is starting to disappear.
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It's predicted that by 2050, half of the capital, Fulnafuti, will be flooded.
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On top of that, extreme weather events are eroding the Tuvaluan coasts, threatening homes and destroying crops.
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Some experts say the country could be uninhabitable by the year 2100.
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Tuvaluwan leaders have been calling for support from other countries and in 2023, they made an agreement with Australia.
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I believe that developed nations have a responsibility to provide assistance, and that is precisely what we are doing.
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Australia promised millions of dollars to help Tuvalu adapt to climate change and pay for critical services and security.
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It also created a new visa system, which allows a small number of Tuvaluans to migrate to Australia each year.
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280, to be exact.
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The most significant agreement between Australia and a Pacific Island nation ever.
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This partnership stands as a beacon of hope.
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Last year, more than 8,000 Tuvaluans applied for visas to Australia.
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Pastor Manu was one of the first to be granted one.
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We are all lowland islands, alive.
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There is, like, the ocean is our friend.
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Every day we wake up.
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If you look around, the ocean is just beside you.
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Right or left, look around, it's all over there.
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Climate change really, the things are now happening at home.
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Yeah, it's happening.
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Because the land has been taken out by the sea.
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Manu is happy to be here in Australia and lives in Narricourt, a regional town in South Australia.
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But he says one of the things he
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and many other Tuvaluans worry about is how to maintain their culture in a new country.
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Culture is life.
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Without culture, you cannot navigate in this life.
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That's in the perspective of a Tuvaluans person.
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It's a different kind of world here.
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For many, Tuvaluans culture is centred around faith and family.
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On each Tuvaluan island, there are communal meeting places called Fale Kupule Houses.
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Here, people gather to listen to elders and learn about culture and traditions.
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And Manu says things like this aren't easy to replicate in Australia.
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So, that house already is a special house for learning.
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So, we learn things from there, not academic, but part of living as a Tuvalu in the land, because we have to have knowledge how to live,
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like fishing, cultivating, you know, things like that, there will come a time.
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We cannot force growing kids to maintain our culture because they are starting to absorb some of the things from other people,
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all their friends.
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Manu is trying to do what he can here in Australia to build a strong Tuvaluwan community.
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In Narakaw, there are about 30 Tuvaluwan migrants, and he says this makes things easier.
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It gives us opportunity to maintain our way of living.
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And also, because we have kids, they really need this.
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You need to maintain your way of living
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so that you can be identified as a Tuvaluwan person because our behaviour really helps us with our identification.
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Poeva and Akisa are part of this Narraquat community and both are still adjusting to life here.
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Akisa says she's struggling with the weather and the language and she misses her friends and family.
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Some of my friends are, like, going to New Zealand and Fiji and some are staying because,
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like, they can't leave their grandparents.
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I miss the close community and the families surrounded by family and culture.
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Pueva hopes to one day go back to Tuvalu as a lot of her friends chose not to leave.
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But she says she wants to do what she can within her community here in Australia to keep her culture alive.
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We strongly maintain our language and other traditional culture in our house,
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so we don't have to forget or leave our culture, our tuvaluant life.
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I just hope that people understand that we move here for safety and opportunities,
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not because we want to leave our culture behind.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau B2 is gebaseerd op de video “Tuvalu’s Battle with Climate Change - BTN High”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: culture, Australia, Tuvalu, Tuvaluan, maintain. Deze video bevat 70 zinnen en 863 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 6:52. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 126 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| disappear werkwoord | /dɪsəˈpɪɹ/ | verdwijnen, verzwinden |
| visa zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈviːzə/ | visum |
| cultivate werkwoord | /ˈkʌltɪveɪt/ | telen, verbouwen |
| grandparent zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɡɹæn(d)pɛəɹənt/ | grootouder |
| kilometre zelfstandig naamwoord | /kɪˈlɑmɪtəɹ/ | kilometer |
| lowland zelfstandig naamwoord | laagland | |
| migrate werkwoord | /maɪˈɡɹeɪt/ | migreren |
| uninhabitable bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˌʌnɪnˈhæbɪtəbəl/ | onbewoonbaar |
| navigate werkwoord | /ˈnæv.ɪ.ɡeɪt/ | navigeren |
| beacon zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈbiːkən/ | baken, bakenvuur |
| migrant zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈmaɪɡɹənt/ | migrant, migrante |
| metre zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈmiːtəɹ/ | meter |
| surround werkwoord | /səˈɹaʊnd/ | omgeven, omringen |
| absorb werkwoord | /æbˈsɔɹb/ | absorberen, (in zich) opnemen |
| coconut zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈkəʊ.kə.nʌt/ | kokosnoot |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| wake up werkwoord | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | wakker worden, ontwaken |
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 | was also born · will be flooded · be granted |
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | have made · has been taken |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 4 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals don't, aren't, can't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De “th”-klanken: threaten /ˈθɹɛt.n̩/, northeast /noːˈθɪjst/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: kilometre /kɪˈlɑmɪtəɹ/, uninhabitable /ˌʌnɪnˈhæbɪtəbəl/, identification /aɪˌdɛn(t)ɪfɪˈkeɪʃn̩/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: surround /səˈɹaʊnd/, absorb /æbˈsɔɹb/, beside /bɪˈsaɪd/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: grandparent /ˈɡɹæn(d)pɛəɹənt/, uninhabitable /ˌʌnɪnˈhæbɪtəbəl/, navigate /ˈnæv.ɪ.ɡeɪt/, absorb /æbˈsɔɹb/, adapt /əˈdæpt/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: grandparent /ˈɡɹæn(d)pɛəɹənt/, migrate /maɪˈɡɹeɪt/, navigate /ˈnæv.ɪ.ɡeɪt/, migrant /ˈmaɪɡɹənt/
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 disappear, visa, cultivate.
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.