Shadowing Practice: What Keeps Me OPTIMISTIC About the Future | Simon Sinek - Learn English Speaking with Video
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I think people tend to good, right?
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I'll give you a silly example.
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So there's an app that you can download called Apple Store, right?
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Not the App Store, but Apple Store.
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And you can go into any Apple Store, retail outlet, you can pull out your phone, you can't do it with a computer or a phone, but you can do it with a pair of $300 headphones,
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you can do it with cables, plugs, whatever you need.
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You can scan the item on your phone and you can walk out.
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Right?
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No bag, no nothing, just walk out.
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And when it first came out, after a few months, I pulled one of the managers aside.
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I'm like, I'm dying to know.
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What's happened to your shoplifting numbers?
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And he's like, they're exactly the same.
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I'm like, he says, people who steal, steal, and people who don't steal, don't steal, and most people don't steal.
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People tend to good, right?
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Most people are good people.
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Sometimes we struggle to communicate.
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Sometimes we're bad under pressure, but people tend to good.
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And so if we accept that people tend to good, that means the world tends to good right and incentive structures
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that we work in and the environment we are can can hijack can hijack us
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and make us operate at our worst selves yep
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but people want to feel like they belong people want to
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be seen people want to feel like they matter people want
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to feel like their work matters it's pretty consistent around the
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world we want to feel safe wherever we are we want
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our kids to feel safe wherever they are pretty much it
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I want I want my kids to make a living and I want my kids to get an education.
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That's pretty much it around the whole world.
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And so I, my optimism is not naive.
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Like, we can be in darkness.
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I can be like, this is horrible, and I am stressed, and I don't know where we're going, and I am uncertain, and this is the worst time we've ever been in.
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But I know one thing.
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I know that if we take care of each other and we look after each other, I know we will get through this and come through this better than where we are now.
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We will come out of this even stronger than we went in.
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And that's what optimism is for me the undying belief that the future is bright.
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And I believe that the future is bright because I think people are fundamentally good.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau B2 is gebaseerd op de video “What Keeps Me OPTIMISTIC About the Future”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: steal, tend, Store, Apple. Deze video bevat 36 zinnen en 433 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 2:01. De spreker praat snel, ongeveer 214 woorden per minuut, dus reken op verbonden en ingeslikte klanken. 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 9 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| hijack werkwoord | /ˈhaɪ.d͡ʒæk/ | kapen |
| optimism zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɑptɪmɪzəm/ | optimisme |
| shoplifting zelfstandig naamwoord | winkeldiefstal | |
| naive bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /naɪˈiv/ | naïef, tegen beter weten in |
| headphones zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈhɛdfoʊnz/ | hoofdtelefoon, koptelefoon |
| incentive zelfstandig naamwoord | /ɪnˈsɛntɪv/ | drijfveer, aansporing |
| outlet zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈaʊtlɛt/ | uitlaat |
| scan werkwoord | /skæn/ | afspeuren |
| plug zelfstandig naamwoord | /plʌɡ/ | stekker |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| come out werkwoord | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | uitkomen |
Zinnen om te herhalen
Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:
- I'll give you a silly example.
- I'm like, I'm dying to know.
- What's happened to your shoplifting numbers?
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 13 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals don't, I'm, we're. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
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 hijack, optimism, shoplifting.
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.