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And that life ends at the moment where my wonderful son Ali leaves our world.
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Ali, maybe at the time he was 21 and a half.
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Ali, he was anything that a father would dream of a son to become.
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He was tall and handsome and funny as hell.
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Very kind, very generous, very tender, very loving.
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very wise, very wise, like painfully wise.
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And I can remember vividly that when he, you know, he lived in Boston,
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like you did for a while at the time he was studying in Northeastern University.
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And he had, so he was in a band and they were planning to tour the US at the time.
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And for some reason, he calls us and says, I feel compelled, his exact words,
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I feel compelled to come and see you before the tour.
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And so I immediately buy him a ticket.
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He flies over.
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My daughter is here as well.
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So, you know, it's like this family get together.
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We spend a couple of days together and then he gets this bellyache.
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We take him to a hospital.
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It's an appendix inflammation, very simple surgery.
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But then the surgeon does five mistakes in a row and Ali leaves our world.
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And so you may think of this as the end of a father's life.
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And you wouldn't blame me if you had hugged him once.
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You wouldn't blame me if it was that way.
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It was the start of my second life, if you want.
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So Ali leaves, Aya, my daughter comes to me four days later.
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She says he had a dream that he was everywhere and part of everyone.
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Which if you sort of understand spirituality reasonably well,
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that basically means you've disconnected from the limits of the physical world.
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Your soul is not judged or governed by time or space.
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And so if you're outside of the physical limits of your physical form, you're everywhere.
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You can see everything.
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And if you return back to the source, to God, then you're at the source of where all the spirits or all of the souls come from.
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Then you're part of everyone and you know I only understood
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that believe it or not six or seven years after he left
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when he when he when she told me that he had that dream
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and told her about it my very blurry mind this was
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four days after I lost my son my blurry mind thought of it as a quota as
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if it's my son who in many many ways was my teacher in so many ways was giving me a target,
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was saying, make me everywhere and part of everyone.
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And at the time, as I said, I was running Google.
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So everything I did wasn't, you know, with the intention of reaching billions of people.
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And I knew how to do that.
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And so I found myself sitting down, you know, of course I cried and then I heard me say,
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of course, Habibi, consider it done.
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I'll make you everywhere and part of everyone.
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And that basically meant that I needed to take Ali's essence, whatever made him who he is.
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And my devious plan was to put that in a book,
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you know, make that book successful enough so that people who read it tell others about it.
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and hopefully through six degrees of separation, a tiny, tiny, tiny part of his essence will move from you to someone else,
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to someone else, to someone else.
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And eventually Ali will be everywhere and part of everyone.
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And so that book was Solved for Happy,
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which was the summary of the journey I lived with Ali at the times where I had my first life.
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So in my first life, I was extremely successful.
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I was printing money on demand.
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I had everything that everyone dreams of.
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Google this.
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Even before Google.
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In my early 20s, because of my programming and math abilities,
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1996, I wrote a piece of code before Google that would scout the internet for insider information about stocks
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and basically does the mathematics of technical analysis on every stock chart.
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And every morning I'd wake up in the morning
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and my code would have run overnight after the market closes in the U.S to recommend to me four buys
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and four sets.
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And I was literally printing money on demand.
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I remember once my wonderful wife then, she's now my ex but still wonderful, would come to me and say, we need to change the car.
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And I'm like, yeah, what are you looking for?
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And she says, I need this.
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And, you know, let's buy this.
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And I was like, that's going to have to be Wednesday, you know, because the market opens Monday.
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I trade on Monday and Tuesday and the money is available Wednesday.
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This was just a joke, honestly.
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And at the time I was so miserable, so miserable.
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And it's really a testimony to what the nature of happiness is that I, you know, I just couldn't go on.
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And Ali was the one that basically helped me understand the reality of happiness.
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My mathematical brain would think of it algorithmically, and then I would go to him and explain what I understand.
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And he would look at me and entertain me with a couple of questions as if he's interested.
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And then would tell me, you could have asked me, like, I know that stuff in my heart.
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and so he would tell it to me in a way
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that you know a normal human not a mess machine would understand and so
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when he left our world i just had to write what
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he taught me down i mean i was driven by
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that idea of making him everywhere and part of everyone
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but i was also driven by the idea of not forgetting what he taught me
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and uh and so solve for happy became a mega best seller.
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I think we're approaching a million copies by now.
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And I left Google, and I have basically, I started something that I call 1 billion happy.
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And yeah, I wake up every morning attempting to make a few people happier
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or attempting to remove a reason for unhappiness in the world.
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And between those two, you asked me, why do I do what I do?
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I mean, what better could you do in life?
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My wonderful, my daughter, you know, one day came to me and said, you should know that God paid you in advance.
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I was like, what do you mean?
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And she said, And it's true.
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I'm born and raised in Egypt, public school, public university in Egypt.
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You don't get to be chief business officer Google X with that, honestly.
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I was born with this math abilities and technical abilities.
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And then I went so far, way beyond what I deserve, if you want.
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And Aya is so clever.
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She comes and she says,
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you've been paid in advance you're going to be assigned the duty to pay back what you've been given.
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And to be very, very honest, I honestly have not worked a single day since I wake up in the morning,
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I think deeply about a topic, put it on the pages of a book, and people read it.
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Can you imagine the privilege of putting your thoughts on paper and someone reads it, right? and then
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I travel the world and meet wonderful people like you
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and go speak at important events and it's just been a dream to be honest,
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that's why I do it Was it easier to deal with your loss in the years that unfolded after Ali's passing?
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Was year zero the hardest, year one a little easier or has it all been extremely challenging from then until now.
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Wow.
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What a question.
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It's been the hardest thing ever.
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I think it's the hardest thing a loving father would ever feel.
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Until this minute.
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So every time, most people don't know this, every time you bring up Ali, I feel a physical pain right here.
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It's physical.
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It's almost like I always say that the bottom right-hand side of my heart is missing.
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And I pinpointed, I know exactly where it is.
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It's so weird.
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But it's been the best thing that ever happened, believe it or not.
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Since the minute he left, myself and his wonderful mother,
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Nibel is a very, very, very loving person.
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And Ali was everything.
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And she's emotional and she's delicate and she's feminine.
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And both of us, I mean, Habibti, when he died, she said, take me to him.
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And I said, no, I don't advise that.
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She said, just take me to him.
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Okay, I need to say goodbye.
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And so she walks into the intensive care room.
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He's gone.
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And what does she say?
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She kisses him on the forehead and says, Habibi, you're finally home.
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You're finally home.
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That is so true.
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This angel wasn't from here.
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He was not from here.
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And by the way, we all know that this is not home.
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This is just a passage where, you know, you stop under a tree for a while.
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And that eventually, when you give up on your physical form, that's where real home is.
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And it's so interesting because I'm born Muslim, I studied Islam very deeply,
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and in a very interesting way, we know deep inside us
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that there is a big gift if you lose a child
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and you're steady and you're sort of accepting
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and you don't rebel against the divine and curse everything and why me and all of that.
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And I can easily tell you, I'm very stoic in my nature, but I couldn't imagine that Nibel wouldn't go there.
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But some kind of weird blessing just came onto both of us in a very unusual way.
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We literally, literally, not for a second, were disgruntled about it.
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So the pain that we feel is the pain of missing him, which is an incredible sign of how much we love him.
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But we don't feel that we were betrayed by life.
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We don't feel that this doctor is evil.
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We don't feel that we never did.
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And you have to question that because in my physics mind,
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I had to start thinking about the interesting sequence of events in the world.
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You can look at events in your life and think of them in chronological order.
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Like I landed in Riyadh and then I drove here and then I met you.
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That's the chronological unfolding of events that the human brain understands.
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But if you think deeper, you can think of things in causality, in causal order.
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So, you know, someone needs to hear what I'm about to say.
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And so accordingly, I ended up here to meet you.
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And accordingly, you ended up, or we were introduced by Sarah.
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And so, you know how, and if you think of fate as one of the threads through which things happen,
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then almost the same day, I was so surprised by my car.
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I was even more surprised by Nibel's car.
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And I had to tell myself maybe that promise, and I still pray that every day, that promise that if you lose a child,
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he's gonna hold your hand and take you to heaven.
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when you leave as well.
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Maybe if you think about it from a causality point of view, in the absence of time, that has already happened.
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And because it happened, I had to stay calm.
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Do you understand?
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And Nibel had to stay calm.
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We had no choice because that's already written in space-time.
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And, or, you know, beyond life is not space-time, but it's already written in fate, if you want.
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And it blew my mind that until today, I never had a minute where I said, why did you do this?
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Why did you take him?
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze video bevat 172 zinnen en 2003 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 13:47. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 145 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
De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| mathematics zelfstandig naamwoord | /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/ | wiskunde, mathematiek |
| blurry bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈblɜːɹi/ | wazig |
| causality zelfstandig naamwoord | /kɔˈzæl.ɪ.tɪ/ | causaliteit, oorzakelijkheid |
| chronological bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˌkɹɑnəˈlɑd͡ʒɪkəl/ | chronologisch |
| compel werkwoord | /kəmˈpɛl/ | bedwingen |
| unfold werkwoord | /ʌnˈfoʊld/ | openvouwen, uitspreiden |
| essence zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɛsəns/ | essentie, wezen |
| bellyache zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈbɛliˌeɪk/ | buikpijn |
| betray werkwoord | /bɪˈtɹeɪ/ | verraden |
| causal bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈkɔːzəl/ | causaal |
| devious bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈdiː.vi.əs/ | heimelijk, onoprecht |
| disgruntled bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /dɪsˈɡɹʌnt(ə)ld/ | misnoegd, ontevreden |
| unhappiness zelfstandig naamwoord | ongelukkigheid | |
| appendix zelfstandig naamwoord | /əˈpɛn.dɪks/ | aanhangsel, appendix |
| quota zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈkwəʊ.tə/ | quotum |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| end up werkwoord | belanden, terechtkomen | |
| bring up werkwoord | opvoeden | |
| get together werkwoord | samenkomen | |
| pay back werkwoord | /peɪ bæk/ | terugbetalen |
| sit down werkwoord | gaan zitten | |
| wake up werkwoord | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | wakker worden, ontwaken |
Zinnen om te herhalen
Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:
- You wouldn't blame me if it was that way.
- I'll make you everywhere and part of everyone.
- I mean, what better could you do in life?
- I was like, what do you mean?
- Why did you take him?
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 | is not judged · was driven · was also driven |
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | you've disconnected · you've been paid · have not worked |
| Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding | people who read · him, which is |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 35 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals you're, don't, I'm. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De “th”-klanken: mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, mathematical /ˌmæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪ.kəl/
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: inflammation /ɪnfləˈmeɪ̯ʃən/, separation /ˌsɛp.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, causality /kɔˈzæl.ɪ.tɪ/, chronological /ˌkɹɑnəˈlɑd͡ʒɪkəl/, accordingly /əˈkɔɹ.dɪŋ.li/, miserable /ˈmɪz(ə)ɹəbəl/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: unfold /ʌnˈfoʊld/, disgruntled /dɪsˈɡɹʌnt(ə)ld/, bind /ˈbaɪ̯nd/, forehead /ˈfɔɹ.hɛd/, intensive /ɪnˈtɛnsɪv/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, causality /kɔˈzæl.ɪ.tɪ/, spirituality /ˌspɪɹ.ə.t͡ʃuˈæl.ə.tɪ/, mathematical /ˌmæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪ.kəl/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: disgruntled /dɪsˈɡɹʌnt(ə)ld/, govern /ˈɡʌv.ən/, mega /ˈmɛɡə/, hug /hʌɡ/
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 mathematics, blurry, causality.
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.