Shadowing Practice: What Happens to Language When AI Can Speak for Us? - Learn English Speaking with Video
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If AI can learn any language for us, will we eventually stop bothering to learn them?
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And I think that raises a bigger question here because AI changes not only the way we learn language,
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it's also changing the way we use language.
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Most people already use AI to write emails for them, sometimes figure out even what they want to say.
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And I've noticed some of the language of AI even start to infuse what we say.
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Phrases like no fluff, which weren't that common before, have started to become widespread.
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And all of this makes me wonder and raises a really terrifying question.
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What happens to language when machines become better at using it than most humans?
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Scary thought, isn't it?
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Now today's video, as you might have noticed, is a bit different.
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I am literally taking you on a walk with me just a walk through the woods
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and I'm going to try and mainly do this unscripted and unedited which I've never done that much before.
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I usually have a vague script in front of me.
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All of those things that I've talked to you about in videos things like fillers, pauses,
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um sort of those I usually edit out of my videos
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because I like my videos to be quite polished I want you to get the best of something
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but they then miss out
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that really fundamental bit of conversation the bit where you trip
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over what you're saying where you stumble where you use fillers
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you will notice through this video I use quite a lot of fillers
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but actually it's really useful for you to see that
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because then you learn you get more of an idea of
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how we really speak you need to let me know by
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the end this video whether you like it do you like this raw unscripted unedited walking style of video
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and if so i won't make every video like them but i can definitely include them also sorry
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i started this walk quite fast i'm used to walking quite fast
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and when talking at the same time it makes me a little bit out of breath
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so i'm going to slow down as you can see i'm in the woods
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and it's raining which feels appropriate it feels authentically British
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so let's carry on shall we um and
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so a topic I thought would be interesting is AI how
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but this isn't going to be one of those ones about how AI can help your language learning
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because there are lots and lots of YouTube videos about that
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and I'm sure you're already aware it's more about how AI affects language itself
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and the repercussions of
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that AI has been a lot on the news recently in the UK I don't know
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if it's the same for you and
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so anyway it's been on my mind a lot and obviously language
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and AI overlap a lot
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so that's what I'm going to be discussing with you sorry
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I just need to show you look at this view isn't
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it beautiful the colours are starting to change in the UK autumn is one of my favourite seasons
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so I'm planning an autumn video for you let's start with the obvious
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Are we even going to need to learn languages in the future with AI?
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Think about it.
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If you had the opportunity for your mother tongue to be translated in real time to someone else,
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is there a need to learn the language if it can be done at that moment and it can bridge that gap?
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But I suppose when I think about it, I don't know about you,
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but I probably wouldn't want to sit in a restaurant with a friend from another country and have our conversation
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slipping between us through a machine just doesn't feel doesn't feel very connected does it to the other person
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and so actually maybe it's not as simple as that
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because language isn't just about transferring information is it well I don't think it is there's
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so many more layers to it than that as you know i speak italian
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and my husband also speaks italian he speaks it as though
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it's his mother tongue as though it were his mother tongue
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which i'm quite envious of i can speak it
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but obviously i cannot speak it at the same level
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that i speak english
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because i didn't grow up there i wasn't raised there anyway he speaks italian to our children
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and so do i i try to although it's easy for me to slip back into English
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because obviously English is my mother tongue so it's what I naturally defer to
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but actually why why do we need why do they need
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to learn Italian why do we want them to know Italian
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and actually when you think about it that way it's not just about their ability to communicate to people in Italy
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It's also that the language carries the culture, the identity, the sense of belonging.
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And so much would be lost if people, if humans didn't learn others.
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Sorry, I'll rephrase.
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If humans didn't learn the language of others.
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I don't know if you've ever found this, but if you've ever watched, if you are bilingual and you watch the subtitles on certain films,
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sometimes they're not accurate or they miss a really key point
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so much of how we communicate is more than just words
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it's also the humor how we flirt little tiny things
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that you don't think about but actually they are things
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that would be lost on a machine
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so yes you can just translate to what somebody has said
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but that's different from actually knowing their language sorry it's very
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um there's a lot of foliage as you've probably noticed so I'm
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trying to navigate through holding the camera so it's a bit of a duck
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and dive the next thing I really want to discuss
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and it is something that terrifies me is the effect
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that AI well is already having
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but will continue to have on writing I am also a writer I haven't spoken
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that much about it on the channel
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but I have mentioned my background is in literature
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so I did an undergraduate and masters
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and already I'm starting to notice there is a generic way
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that people are starting to write and I'm finding it easier
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and easier to be able to tell when something has been written by AI.
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So what will happen to the skill of writing if there's not a need for it?
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Similar to how 50 years ago everyone's mental arithmetic was
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so much better because they couldn't whip out a calculator
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and calculate something on the spot our mental arithmetic is much
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worse now will the same thing happen to our writing skills I am happy
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that I developed my writing skills before AI evolved I did my undergraduate
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and master's degree before AI so I had to learn
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how to research how to structure a line of argument how to unfold it into a cohesive sorry
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how to unfold it in a cohesive logical way how to think critically
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and how to write persuasively to try
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and convince somebody of what i was saying
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and then obviously i also write both fiction and non -fiction
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but what happens now I don't know what do the students who are studying literature not have to do
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that anymore I'd want to know what university is like but
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and so it's not just the ability to write itself it's also the ability to think critically
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and that's you know I have small children I really want
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them to be able to think critically to not just be told what to think by a machine
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and already so many of us I think are deferring to AI
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because it's just easier in
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that moment almost not to have it tell us what to think
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but to do the critical thinking for us and
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that I think is really dangerous because well if human beings can't think critically
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you know that's a problem that's a problem and
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if everyone uses AI then I'm sorry there'll be one homogenized
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voice what will happen to individuality will individuality be able to
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shine through anymore i'll tell you what's absolutely terrifying actually there are a few things
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when ai first came about i tested it by asking it
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to produce something like the poet ts elliott whose ts elliott is one of my favorite poets
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and he i wrote my dissertation on him
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and the first go was fine it sounded absolutely nothing like him it sounded like a cheap imitation
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it was really reassuring because i read
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that thinking no way would anyone ever in a million years think
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that ts elliot wrote that and gradually since then it's got better and better
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and although now it refuses to do an outright imitation
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if you write you know
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if you ask it to write in the style of ts elliot's poetry we're only
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so far into the advancement of ai
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and already how much it's developed in the last few years
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is extraordinary just to experiment i uploaded a whole bunch of my writing onto um chat gpt
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and i included both fiction i'd written and non -fiction poetry
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and i wanted to see how realistically it could recreate my voice my unique writer's voice
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and I have to say
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when I read what it came back with a chill ran down my spine
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because it could have been me that wrote that who wrote that And again, we're only at the beginning.
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The CEOs have just said, oh, we need to slow down because advancement is going too fast.
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What's going to happen to human creativity?
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Anyway, though, I don't want to be all doom and gloom
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because I do want to acknowledge that AI can be used for good.
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It can be really useful.
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And I'll admit, I use AI in certain areas. For example, my video descriptions on YouTube it saves me a lot of
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time I don't have to write them all out however many hundreds of words
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so I'm not being hypocrite I just I think this is a very complex topic
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and it's not simple enough to say oh yes the benefits outweigh the risks
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or the risks outweigh the benefits
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because we genuinely don't know not even the experts know what it's going to look like
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and the rate of change in the world at the moment
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it's just alarming it's terrifying you think about 10 years ago
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if someone said oh yes no you'd have this thing called chat gpt on your phone
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and it would sound like a real voice
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and it would be talking back to you as though it were human
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and almost could convince you that it's human it would sound like something out of a sci -fi film
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we're already there
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so what does the next 10 years hold i think we
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need to accept though there is a difference between using AI to help you express yourself
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and your thoughts and having it essentially doing the thinking for you
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because well I think I remember doing a lot of critical educational theory
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when I was doing my PGCE which in the UK is
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when you get your qualified teacher status to teach in secondary school
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so when I taught teenagers in secondary school um I did a lot on educational theory
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and one of the critics i can't remember his name exactly
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but he made the point that human beings don't like thinking thinking is challenging
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so we will find ways to avoid
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that we'll find shortcuts like we always do and ai is the ultimate shortcut isn't it means
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you know why do i need to think for myself
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when actually this machine can think for me and
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and it has access to all the information and more than what I need.
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I don't want to be too cynical and pessimistic about it
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because I think the world is scary enough nowadays without adding another burden to worry about.
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Just food for thought and I thought it would be an interesting topic and now you've heard how I really speak uninterrupted.
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I'm not going to make it smoother, i'm going to keep in my fillers and all the things
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that i trip over autumn is sorry i'm looking at the view i accidentally pressed stop record there
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but i meant to flip the camera around
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yeah autumn's coming the leaves are starting to change color oh
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my favorite time of year now how does this affect you
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who are learning english i'm not going to tell you not
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to use ai ai can be a really useful tool to help you hone your language
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and be a language partner help correct you give you feedback help you with conversation exchange
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but just don't replace it sorry don't replace the human element with it because so much of human interaction
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can't be captured in ai i don't think i'm hoping not anyway yes i suppose that's the real question
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and I want you to answer this truthfully in the comments.
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If AI could reliably and accurately translate exactly what you are saying in real time,
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would you even still want to learn English? Is it worth learning? Who knows?
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Right, I hope you enjoyed this different type of video this
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unscripted fairly unedited version where I'm talking more naturally in my talking head videos especially less in my vlogs
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but in my talking head videos all those little fillers I
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cut out to make it more smooth I want it to be as smooth as possible
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but that's not how real language talking is is it it's
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language talking that's not how real language is it's not how everyday languages it's messy
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which is good celebrate the mess it's going uphill again
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so i'm going to leave it there i also would love
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to provoke a discussion in the comment section what do you
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make of ai i know it is talked to death at the moment
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so maybe i shouldn't have chosen that as a subject
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if you did enjoy this style not even like my vlogs um
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but this raw unedited mainly unscripted type of speaking with no music yeah let me know
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because they are a lot easier to make let's say okay right thank you for coming with me
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and I will see you in my next video
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze video bevat 195 zinnen en 2442 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 15:03. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 162 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. 83% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
15 woorden uit de video die het leren waard zijn, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| fiction zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈfɪkʃən/ | fictie |
| critically bijwoord | /ˈkɹɪt.ɪ.kə.li/ | kritiek |
| topic zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈtɑpɪk/ | onderwerp, thema |
| smooth bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /smuːð/ | vlot |
| autumn zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɔtəm/ | herfst, najaar |
| translate werkwoord | /tɹænzˈleɪt/ | vertalen, overzetten |
| naturally bijwoord | /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/ | natuurlijk |
| poetry zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈpoʊ.ə.tɹi/ | poëzie, dichtkunst |
| scary bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈskɛə.ɹi/ | eng |
| slip werkwoord | /ˈslɪp/ | slippen, uitglijden |
| convince werkwoord | /kənˈvɪns/ | overtuigen |
| poet zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈpoʊ.ət/ | dichter, poëet |
| communicate werkwoord | /kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/ | meedelen, mededelen |
| advancement zelfstandig naamwoord | /ædˈvæns.mənt/ | gevorderdheid, vooruitgang |
| everyday bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈɛvɹiˌdeɪ/ | alledaags |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Betekenis |
|---|---|
| slow down werkwoord | afremmen |
| figure out werkwoord | uitvogelen, er achter komen |
| grow up werkwoord | opgroeien |
| run down werkwoord | aanrijden |
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Voorwaardelijke zinnen if + zin, will/would + werkwoord — een voorwaarde en het gevolg | if so i won't make |
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | I've noticed · have started · I've never done |
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | be translated · can be done · wasn't raised |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 75 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, don't, isn't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De “th”-klanken: smooth /smuːð/, bother /ˈbɑðɚ/, breathe /bɹiːð/, arithmetic /æɹɪθˈmɛtɪk/, truthfully /ˈtɹuːθ.fəl.i/
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: fiction /ˈfɪkʃən/, capture /ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, interaction /ˌɪn.təˈɹæk.ʃən/, polish /ˈpɑ.lɪʃ/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: critically /ˈkɹɪt.ɪ.kə.li/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, communicate /kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, experiment /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/
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- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
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- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als fiction, critically, topic.
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.