Shadowing Practice: Walk Your Own Road - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Freedom is the one thing that we as human beings all want.
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How do you live a free life on your terms?
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You can have an opinion, you can live the life you want, the life you want, dress the way you want.
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Everybody can be who they are.
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That's how it should be.
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Nowadays there's a lot of extremist views happening.
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I think they call it polarization.
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It's quite a big fancy word.
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Lots of us have strong beliefs about things.
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This is the way it should be done, it's like the black keys on the pianos, or no, things should be done this way,
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and it's like all the white keys on the piano.
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In my life I don't want to have any beliefs that's extremist or black or white.
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So for me In the year, everybody can have their opinion.
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You allowed your opinion, you allowed your life, you can live your life.
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I'm allowed my opinion, I can live my life.
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And I can live within Orange.
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Another thing we sometimes hold on to is identity.
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So, you know, what is your identity?
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And we create these identities.
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At the moment, the thing that I'm learning to let go of is the identity that's linked to my career.
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That's not my identity.
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Our identity is we are stardust,
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we magic, we beautiful human beings.
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This is the identity.
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The identity is not I'm an engineer,
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I'm a designer, I'm a musician, all these categories, boxes.
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I'm merging into plenty identities,
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many identities, but I don't want to be holding on to specific identities.
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The only constant in life will be change.
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The thing is for me, I've embraced change.
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Change in my work, change in people that's in my life, change in situations.
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The world's changing rapidly, there's lots of destruction going on,
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but the other side of destruction is creation.
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So what are you choosing?
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Are you choosing creation or are you choosing destruction?
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That's the thing, and I'm choosing creation.
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What's lovely about creativity, there's no borders in creativity.
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There's no final creative output.
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There's no final creative project, there's no final creative symphony.
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All of it creates, it's part of your journey.
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It's a nice feeling waking up with joy
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because I can remember a moment in my life where I woke up and I could not get out of bed.
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It's really wonderful to feel amazing when you open your eyes.
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childlike wonder where you're a joyous,
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excited human being that's here having this experience on this crazy planet.
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There's a lot of light and sparkles and then within that you also get the shadows.
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And we as humans have to accept the moment.
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It's the only way.
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Accepting yourself, accepting the exact moment you're in,
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accepting that you're the only one that can take the responsibility for you, for creating your life.
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By experiencing hardship or pain,
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you know when you're experiencing love and beauty and peace.
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It's like the yin and the yang.
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There's always the other side.
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And with finding the feeling, the one, you can actually understand the other one much better.
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And also you can now embrace it because you're like, oh, this is just another layer of life.
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It's just another colour.
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It's another shade of turquoise, another shade of teal, another shade of azul blue.
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And you just dive through it.
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The The
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walker your footsteps are the road and nothing more.
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The road is made by walking.
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Walking you make the road and turning to look behind you, you will see the path that you will never step upon again.
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Walker, there is no road, only the foam trails on the sea.
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This is for me very, very beautiful.
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The road appears as you walk, as you take the journey.
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It opens up and it's beautiful.
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We create our own meaning.
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So for me, the meaning is ethereal, it's just this foam.
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You can't actually hold on to foam.
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We as human beings, we want to hold on to things.
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I want to hold on to the people I love that's left or that's in various ways.
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We want to hold on to actually having a beautiful body or you want to hold on to your health,
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or you want to hold on to your possessions, you want to hold on to everything.
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And it's really in the letting go.
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I'm getting better at letting go.
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Definitely.
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As time passed on, as people pass through my life.
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But it's always going to be a challenge.
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I do struggle with loss, people, friends, that's not in my life anymore.
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It's odd, when people pass away,
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you've got these journeys with people and then all of a sudden they're not there anymore.
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I can see a train outside my window every day and life is like these stations.
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people jump on the train and then the train might stop and then they get off.
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And you're still continuing with the journey and while you're on the train, different people arrive.
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And it's really to have a lot of gratitude for the new connections,
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new people arriving, but having plenty of gratitude for people that's not with you on the journey anymore,
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and making every second count.
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Who is with you in those compartments? Are you ignoring them?
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Are you really speaking to them?
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And, you know, what are you making of your journey?
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You die how you live.
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So I trust that I'll be surrounded by the right people.
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Because The journey is becoming more and more exciting.
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So there's more and more, there's most wonderful people in my life.
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Got a message on my fridge.
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It was a beautiful card that I got from my sister, and it said, you are so loved.
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And there's so much love in the universe, and it's nice to be reminded of that.
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So if anybody is listening and going through a hard time, just know that there's a lot of love, and a lot of people love you.
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Kindness to yourself.
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It's a big one. Be kind.
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You are worthy of love.
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You are loved.
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You've got a role to play.
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Each human being has got a different experience.
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There's no person that's got a similar experience.
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And we don't quite, we'll never quite understand the other person's, what they're going through.
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So the thing is to be kind.
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We all have similar challenges changes.
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And that's also one way where you can have a lot more empathy for the other person.
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It's just a mirror coming back at you.
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It just shows you another aspect of you, the other human being.
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So it's just these reflections that's reflecting back.
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It's definitely a love story.
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You know, loving yourself much more, it's the only way to live, it brings a lot of peace.
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Thank you
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so much for watching this story all the way to the end.
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And a special thank you to all of you on Patreon who help us to make these films.
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If you want to join us on the journey please click the link over here, I think.
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It just wouldn't be possible without you.
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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 “Walk Your Own Road”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: journey, hold, identity, beautiful, road. Deze video bevat 121 zinnen en 1203 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 15:51. De spreker praat langzaam, ongeveer 76 woorden per minuut, zodat je tijd hebt om elke klank na te doen. 88% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is goed te volgen.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| foam zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈfɔʊ̯m/ | schuim |
| shade zelfstandig naamwoord | /ʃeɪd/ | schaduw |
| extremist zelfstandig naamwoord | /ɪkˈstɹiːmɪst/ | extremist |
| gratitude zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɡɹæ.tɪ.tud/ | dankbaarheid |
| creativity zelfstandig naamwoord | /kri.eɪˈtɪv.ᵻ.ti/ | creativiteit |
| embrace werkwoord | /ɛmˈbɹes/ | omarmen, omhelzen |
| ethereal bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ɪˈθɪɚ.i.əl/ | etherisch, hemels |
| excite werkwoord | /ɪkˈsaɪt/ | prikkelen, opwinden |
| footstep zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈfʊtstɛp/ | voetafdruk, voetstap |
| stardust zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈstɑɹˌdʌst/ | sterrenstof |
| turquoise zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈtɝ.k(w)ɔɪz/ | turkoois |
| hardship zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈhɑɹdˌʃɪp/ | ellende, ondraaglijkheid |
| compartment zelfstandig naamwoord | /kəmˈpɑɹtmənt/ | ruimte |
| empathy zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɛmpəθi/ | inlevingsvermogen, empathie |
| merge werkwoord | /mɝd͡ʒ/ | samenvoegen, fuseren |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| get off werkwoord | van ... afgaan | |
| pass away werkwoord | overlijden, ontslapen | |
| 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:
- How do you live a free life on your terms?
- I'm allowed my opinion, I can live my life.
- Are you choosing creation or are you choosing destruction?
- Who is with you in those compartments?
- Are you really speaking to them?
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 27 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, you're, don't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De “th”-klanken: ethereal /ɪˈθɪɚ.i.əl/, empathy /ˈɛmpəθi/
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: shade /ʃeɪd/, polarization /ˌpoʊlərɪˈzeɪʃən/, hardship /ˈhɑɹdˌʃɪp/, musician /mjuˈzɪʃən/, reflection /ɹɪˈflɛkʃən/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: creativity /kri.eɪˈtɪv.ᵻ.ti/, ethereal /ɪˈθɪɚ.i.əl/, polarization /ˌpoʊlərɪˈzeɪʃən/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: shade /ʃeɪd/, gratitude /ˈɡɹæ.tɪ.tud/, turquoise /ˈtɝ.k(w)ɔɪz/, merge /mɝd͡ʒ/, surround /səˈɹaʊnd/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: gratitude /ˈɡɹæ.tɪ.tud/, yang /ˈjæŋ/
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 foam, shade, extremist.
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