Shadowing Practice: what does success mean to you? - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Define success for yourself.
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You already like that one?
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Define success for yourself.
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Now check this out.
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I'm in South of New Orleans a few years ago and I went to a voodoo shop.
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And they had this wooden partition against the wall of these columns.
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And in these columns were all these vials of these magic potions, right?
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And the headings above each potion defining what they would give you were things like fertility,
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health, family, legal health, energy, forgiveness, money.
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Guess which column was empty?
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Money.
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Let's admit it.
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Money is king today.
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It's what makes the world go round.
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It is success.
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The more we have, the more successful we are, right?
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Now, I would argue that our cultural values have even been financialized.
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Financialized.
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Humility is not in vogue anymore.
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It's too passive.
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It's a get -rich -quick -on -the -internet -richest -fifteen -minutes -of -fame world that we live in, and we see it every day.
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But we all want to succeed, right?
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So the question that we've got to ask ourselves is, what success is to us?
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What success is to you?
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Is it more money?
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That's fine.
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I got nothing against money.
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I don't.
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Maybe it's a healthy family.
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Maybe it's a happy marriage.
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Maybe it's to help others, to be famous, to be spiritually sound, to leave the world a little bit better place than you found it.
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Continue to ask yourself that question.
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Now, your answer may change over time, and that's fine.
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But do yourself this favor.
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Whatever your answer is, don't choose anything that will jeopardize your soul.
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Prioritize who you are, who you want to be, and don't spend time with anything that antagonizes your character.
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Don't drink the Kool -Aid, man.
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It tastes sweet, but you will get cavities tomorrow.
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Life is not a popularity contest.
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Be brave, take the hill, but first answer that question, what's my hill?
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So, me, how do I define success for me, myself?
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Well, for me, it's a measurement of five things.
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We got fatherhood, we got being a good husband, we got my health, mind, body and spirit, we got career and we got friendships.
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These are what's important to me in my life right now.
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So I try to measure these five things each day.
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I check in with them.
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I like to see whether or not I'm in the debit section or the credit section with each one.
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Am I in the red or am I in the black?
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You follow?
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For instance, sometimes say my career is rolling.
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All right, it's way up here in the black, but I see how my relationship with my wife maybe could use a little bit more of my attention.
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I got to pick up the slack on being a better husband.
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Get that one out of the red.
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Or say my spiritual health could use some maintenance.
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It's down here, but hey, man, my friendships and my social life, they're in high gear, right?
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I got to recalibrate.
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checks and balances.
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I got to go to church.
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Remember to say thank you more often, something.
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But I got to take the tally because I want to keep all five in healthy shape.
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And I know that if I don't take care of them, if I don't keep up maintenance on them, one of them is going to get weak, man.
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It's going to dip too deep into the debit section.
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It's going to go bankrupt.
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It's gonna get sick, die even.
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So first, we have to define success for ourselves.
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And then, we have to put in the work to maintain it.
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Take that daily tally.
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Tend our garden.
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Keep the things that are important to us in good shape.
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I mean, let's admit it.
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We've all got two wolves in us.
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A good one and a bad one.
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And they both wanna eat.
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The best I can tell, we just gotta feed that good one a little more than the other one.
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If you're gonna do it, do it.
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say what you can do do what you say you can't
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do it don't say you can do it don't over leverage yourself don't over leverage the decision
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and then jump in
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and kind of dip a toe i think i'll try it out no think
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if you're going to try it out beforehand but when it's time to go dive
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finish it find out come out the other side don't leave it and go
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if i just would uh -uh
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that keeps me up at night i think it keeps a lot of us up at night
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when you half -ass something and you just don't know whether you failed or succeeded, got what you want or didn't get what you want, finding out and looking in the mirror and going,
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I didn't half -ass it.
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I went all the way.
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I found out.
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And that ain't for me.
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Or I found out and you're damn right that is for me.
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That's a great place to get to.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau B2 is gebaseerd op de video “what does success mean to you?”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: success, define, column, section, answer. Deze video bevat 90 zinnen en 849 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 5:13. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 163 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| potion zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈpoʊ.ʃən/ | drankje, toverdrankje |
| debit zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈdɛb.ɪt/ | debet |
| leverage zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈlɛv.(ə.)ɹɪd͡ʒ/ | hefboom, hefboomkracht |
| antagonize werkwoord | /ænˈtæɡ.ɪ.naɪz/ | tegenwerken, antagoneren |
| fatherhood zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈfɑːðəːˌhʊd/ | vaderschap |
| jeopardize werkwoord | /ˈd͡ʒɛp.ə.dʌɪz/ | bedreigen, in gevaar brengen |
| humility zelfstandig naamwoord | /hjuːˈmɪlɪti/ | nederigheid, deemoed |
| cavity zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈkæv.ɪt.i/ | gaatje, gat |
| beforehand bijwoord | /bɪˈfɔɹhænd/ | vooraf, op voorhand |
| partition zelfstandig naamwoord | /pɑɹˈtɪ.ʃən/ | opdeling, partitie |
| vogue zelfstandig naamwoord | /vəʊɡ/ | in zwang, modieus |
| slack bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /slæk/ | slap |
| bankrupt bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈbæŋk.ɹəpt/ | bankroet, in faling |
| fertility zelfstandig naamwoord | /fɝˈtɪləti/ | vruchtbaarheid |
| forgiveness zelfstandig naamwoord | /fɚˈɡɪvnəs/ | vergeving, vergiffenis |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| find out werkwoord | ontdekken, onderzoeken | |
| come out werkwoord | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | uitkomen |
| keep up werkwoord | bijblijven | |
| pick up werkwoord | oppakken, optillen |
Zinnen om te herhalen
Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:
- You already like that one?
- What success is to you?
- Am I in the red or am I in the black?
- I mean, let's admit it.
- We've all got two wolves in us.
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 28 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals don't, you're, didn't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: potion /ˈpoʊ.ʃən/, partition /pɑɹˈtɪ.ʃən/, measurement /ˈmɛʒ.ə.mənt/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: antagonize /ænˈtæɡ.ɪ.naɪz/, prioritize /pɹaɪˈɒɹ.ə.taɪz/, recalibrate /ˌɹiˈkæl.ə.bɹeɪt/, humility /hjuːˈmɪlɪti/, fertility /fɝˈtɪləti/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: leverage /ˈlɛv.(ə.)ɹɪd͡ʒ/, columns /ˈkɑləmz/, antagonize /ænˈtæɡ.ɪ.naɪz/, fatherhood /ˈfɑːðəːˌhʊd/, jeopardize /ˈd͡ʒɛp.ə.dʌɪz/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: tally /ˈtæli/, antagonize /ænˈtæɡ.ɪ.naɪz/, recalibrate /ˌɹiˈkæl.ə.bɹeɪt/, cavity /ˈkæv.ɪt.i/, beforehand /bɪˈfɔɹhænd/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: antagonize /ænˈtæɡ.ɪ.naɪz/, vogue /vəʊɡ/, forgiveness /fɚˈɡɪvnəs/
Zo oefen je met deze video
- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
- Begin op 0,75× snelheid, spreek zin voor zin na en ga terug naar normale snelheid zodra het makkelijk gaat.
- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als potion, debit, leverage.
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.