Shadowing Practice: When Cartoons Warned Us About Love. - Learn English Speaking with Video

Les maken...
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You've got this.
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Yes, dude.
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Yes.
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Dude.
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Mordecai.
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Mordecai.
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I know it must hurt, man, but you've been listening to that song on repeat for like five days now.
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You were doing so well.
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Mordecai.
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Is he still crying about the coffee girl?
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If I have to listen to this song one more time.
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Mordecai.
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This is your boss.
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Open up.
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I'm taking a mental health day.
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You don't have the right to be sad.
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You never even had the guts to tell Margaret how you feel.
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Listen, if you leave things the way they are now, you'll regret it for the rest of your life.
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Telling her might not change anything, but at least you'll have closure.
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You should just tell Margaret how you feel.
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You're right.
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Say I wasn't so normal.
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Well, let's say I was bald and had the complexion of a popular primary color, as a random, non -specific example,
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would you still enjoy my company? Of course.
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We don't judge a book by its cover or a person from the outside.
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Oh, that's a relief to hear.
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I can explain.
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What about everything you've just said about judging a book by its cover?
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Why are you so evil, tricking me?
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What could you possibly hope to gain?
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Wait a minute.
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Oh, I don't believe this.
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Do you really think that I would ever be with you?
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No. I guess I'm just thinking about Flame Princess.
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I told her a joke the other day, and she didn't even laugh or anything.
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Guess it's over between us.
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That's it?
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A joke?
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Man, having a girlfriend is hard.
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No, being crazy is hard.
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You're getting all hung up.
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All hung up on imaginary problems.
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You gotta focus on what's real, man.
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You see this cup?
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This is literally my favorite cup.
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Now it's gone forever, so it's not real, and I don't care about it anymore.
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Go for Morty!
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Hi, Morty.
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It's Jessica.
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Look, can we just talk for a minute?
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Is that how long it takes for Rick to trace my location?
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Come back, Morty.
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I miss you.
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You miss the old me.
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You miss someone that loved you so much you never had to love him back.
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How do you know I don't want to love you?
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Because I'm not sick.
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Look at that.
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Another tortured soul.
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Another light of pain.
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Hey, Raven.
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Chuck it out.
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What's the matter with you?
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Well...
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My girlfriend broke up with me.
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Did she step on your heart with stiletto shoes?
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Yeah, sure does, Bird.
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That's cool.
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I guess you can join up with us if you want.
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Yeah, we're gonna go to the graveyard and write poems about death and how pointless life is.
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No thanks.
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I love life.
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Huh?
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But you just got dumped.
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Well, yeah, and I'm sad.
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But at the same time, I'm really happy that something can make me feel that sad.
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It's like, it makes me feel alive, you know?
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It makes me feel human.
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The only way I can feel this sad now is if I felt something really good before.
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So I have to take the bad with the good.
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So I guess what I'm feeling is like a beautiful sadness.
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I guess that sounds stupid.
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You need to let her go.
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I know.
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It's gonna hurt a little bit when you do. Who am I kidding?
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It's gonna hurt a lot.
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But you're gonna be okay.
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I can't do this anymore!
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What?
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Now you like me?
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Finn, what are you talking about?
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What am I talking about?
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Phoebe, I was...
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I was in love with you, okay?
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And you didn't love me back.
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Now I'm ready to move on, and it's like...
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You're gonna build me up all over again.
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Well, I'm done.
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I'm done.
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Part of me is still waiting for Margaret to come back.
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What?
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Still? she's not coming back dude she's gone look I know all right I know it's just I
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mean I don't still have feelings for her
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but I do in a way it's like this thing that's inside of me
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and it's always just sort of sitting there waiting around sometimes I'll see something
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or I'll smell something
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and it makes me think of even though i don't want
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to i let her go yes yes splen you what how could you do
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that i had to yes but why because i love her So what?
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He's scared of love?
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Everyone's scared of love, dipshit.
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You learned that in your 20s.
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It takes a very rare, very powerful being to be terrified of happiness.
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Dumb!
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You're dumb.
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That's why you're not scared to be happy.
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The smarter you are, the more you know.
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Happiness is a trap.
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It can't last forever.
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Let's say you meet the love of your life.
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Well, it's still in a hand.
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It's inevitable.
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Whether by the slow pull of a disease or the shock or loose footing on a hiking trail, Whether it be the corrosion of two personalities that reshape each other until they're incompatible,
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or maybe the old stranger in a bar who says the things that need to be said to that person that night.
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The point is, happiness always ends.
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Best case scenario, think about this.
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Best case is that you die at the same time.
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Well, sounds like you're sad.
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Listen, Ben, girls is like horses.
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When you fall down, it's important that you get right back on again, on a different horse.
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And there's a lot of fish in the sea.
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A lot of fish.
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Penny saved, it's a penny earned.

Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les

Deze spreekles is gebaseerd op de video “When Cartoons Warned Us About Love”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: sad, guess, mordecai. Deze video bevat 133 zinnen en 938 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 5:57. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 158 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. 26 van de 133 zinnen zijn vragen, dus het is goede oefening voor vraagintonatie en korte antwoorden.

Belangrijke woorden in deze video

15 woorden uit de video die het leren waard zijn, met uitspraak en betekenis:

WoordUitspraakBetekenis
happiness zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈhæpinɪs/blijheid, blijdschap
scare werkwoord/skɛɚ/bang maken, beangstigen
penny zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈpɛni/penny
earn werkwoord/ɝn/verdienen
shock zelfstandig naamwoord/ʃɔk/schok, shock
trail zelfstandig naamwoord/tɹeɪl/spoor
regret werkwoord/ɹɪˈɡɹɛt/betreuren, spijten
trap zelfstandig naamwoord/tɹæp/val
poem zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈpoʊ.əm/gedicht, vers
shoe zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈʃu/schoen
scenario zelfstandig naamwoord/sɪˈnɛəɹioʊ/scenario
trace zelfstandig naamwoord/tɹeɪs/opsporen, nazoeken
torture zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈtoɹt͡ʃɚ/marteling, foltering
closure zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈkloʊ.ʒɚ/beëindiging, afsluiting
dump werkwoord/dʌmp/dumpen

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

WoordUitspraakBetekenis
come back werkwoordterugkomen
fall down werkwoord/fɔl ˈdaʊn/neervallen

Zinnen om te herhalen

Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:

  • Why are you so evil, tricking me?
  • What could you possibly hope to gain?
  • Look, can we just talk for a minute?
  • How do you know I don't want to love you?
  • What's the matter with you?

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 43 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, don't, you're. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

  • De klanken “sh” en “zh”: shock /ʃɔk/, shoe /ˈʃu/, closure /ˈkloʊ.ʒɚ/, complexion /kəmˈplɛkʃən/, corrosion /kəˈɹoʊʒən/
  • Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: inevitable /ɪˈnɛvɪtəbəl/, imaginary /ɪˈmæd͡ʒɪˌn(ɛ)ɹi/, incompatible /ˌɪŋkəmˈpætɪbəl/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

  • Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: bald /bɔːld/, graveyard /ˈɡɹeɪvˌjɑɹd/
  • /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: happiness /ˈhæpinɪs/, trap /tɹæp/, sadness /ˈsædnəs/, imaginary /ɪˈmæd͡ʒɪˌn(ɛ)ɹi/, incompatible /ˌɪŋkəmˈpætɪbəl/
  • /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: regret /ɹɪˈɡɹɛt/, guts /ɡʌts/, graveyard /ˈɡɹeɪvˌjɑɹd/

Zo oefen je met deze video

  1. Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
  2. Begin op 0,75× snelheid, spreek zin voor zin na en ga terug naar normale snelheid zodra het makkelijk gaat.
  3. Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als happiness, scare, penny.

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.

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