Shadowing Practice: What divorce taught me - Learn English Speaking with Video
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I don't know if anybody's experienced this, but I woke up every day
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and I think she did too for probably five years thinking about how to end this elegantly.
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And it occupies your mind.
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And I don't know if that was the right thing.
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I'm just being transparent.
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And then when I went through it for the first time in my life, I had panic attacks.
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I had anxiety.
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I didn't want to get in a plane.
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I didn't want to get in an elevator.
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There was weird things happening to me.
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I went back and realized that I hid so many of the things
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that I felt when I was a kid as a divorce that I just kept them in.
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Like I felt like I locked them in a box.
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All the things, you know, my parents divorced and they hated each other.
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When we got married, I had to put my parents in two different hotels and they've been divorced for 50 years.
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They still won't talk to each other, right?
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So all these things, I realized that I can repeat patterns.
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I can let this bug me or I could heal in such a big way.
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But I felt like when I was going through divorce that I was in the middle of a storm.
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And every time you get to a certain point, it was so bad in the storm, you'd turn around.
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And then you go back and then you got to experience the pain all over again.
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And I remember just thinking one day, the only way through it is through it.
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I have to face this.
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And I just want to share with anybody who's going through anything
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that sometimes the best way is to just look the storm in and ride it through.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze video bevat 25 zinnen en 302 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 1:06. 82% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
9 woorden uit de video die het leren waard zijn, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| divorce zelfstandig naamwoord | /dɪˈvɔːs/ | echtscheiding |
| anxiety zelfstandig naamwoord | /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/ | bezorgdheid, ongerustheid |
| panic zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈpænɪk/ | paniek |
| heal werkwoord | /ˈhiːl/ | genezen, helen |
| transparent bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /tɹænsˈpæɹənt/ | doorzichtig, transparant |
| storm zelfstandig naamwoord | /stɔɹm/ | bui, onweer |
| pattern zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈpætɚn/ | sjabloon |
| lock zelfstandig naamwoord | /lɑk/ | slot |
| repeat werkwoord | /ɹɪˈpiːt/ | herhalen, wederhalen |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| go back werkwoord | teruggaan | |
| turn around werkwoord | omdraaien | |
| wake up werkwoord | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | wakker worden, ontwaken |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 8 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals didn't, don't, I'm. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: anxiety /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/, elevator /ˈɛləˌveɪtɚ/, anybody /ˈɛn.i.bə.di/
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 divorce, anxiety, panic.
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.