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Female celebrities have long been subjected to sexist and inappropriate questions in interviews, and while most of them simply brushed it off,
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some celebrities decided to fight back and confront the interviewers.
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Like singer Mariah Carey, who sat down for an interview with radio host Howard Stern in 1998.
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Throughout the interview, Howard made a series of inappropriate comments and questions that left Mariah visibly uncomfortable.
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First of all, your breasts are incredible.
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No, they're not.
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They're really not.
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They're normal.
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I told you, I'm a very innocent girl.
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You can't do that kind of stuff to me.
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There's nothing innocent about you.
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You were so naked.
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Do you really think, you really don't, you really don't get that sense from me?
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Do you ever wear underwear?
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Ever?
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Yes, I do.
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Are you wearing underwear tonight?
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Yes, I am.
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Do you think I'm going to go with this without the pants?
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Who do you think I am?
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And I love that you love to show off your body.
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I just think that's so sexy.
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Howard, don't say that.
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Why do you do?
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You're making a mockery of me.
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And if that wasn't inappropriate enough, the host then said something so outrageous that Mariah could not believe what she was hearing.
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You dress like, I mean this is, I hope you take this the right way.
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You see, you take things the wrong way.
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Oh, no, no, don't, don't, don't, don't.
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You dress like a stripper.
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You know what?
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Bye.
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How can you call me a stripper?
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I was Mary Poppins for the first five years of my career.
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Would you get off this?
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I am like, compared to who?
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Compared to what other singer?
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Say where you start?
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Compared to what other singer, I want to know.
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In your videos, you look hot.
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I want to know, but since when?
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Since this album only.
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And Mariah was far from the only one who had to deal with inappropriate questions on live radio.
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Singer Hayley Williams of the band Paramore found herself in a very similar situation
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when a radio host took things way too far during what should have been a straightforward interview.
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And it wasn't just radio hosts who couldn't keep it professional.
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In 2009, Sandra Bullock sat down to promote her movie
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The Proposal, which featured a brief comedic nude scene.
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And for whatever reason, the interviewer decided to make that the entire focus of the conversation.
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Similarly, when Anne Hathaway sat down to promote
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The Dark Knight Rises in 2012, her interviewer seemed far more interested in her body than in her performance.
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You had to make sure you were in perfect shape for this one, didn't you?
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It wasn't about being in perfect shape, it was about being able to do the stunts and the fighting perfectly.
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Is there a certain regimen you put yourself through in terms of the diet, the workout?
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It's just watch what you eat and get yourself to the gym.
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Any particular workout?
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Are you trying to lose weight?
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Well, what's the deal, man, you look great.
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No, no, no. No, no, seriously, we have to talk about this.
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What do you want?
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Scarlett Johansson faced her fair share of inappropriate questions during press tours too.
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And in 2012, while promoting
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The Avengers, a female interviewer made a very ignorant an assumption about her, but Scarlett corrected her immediately.
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Really?
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Have you seen Chris Hemsworth?
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And when an interviewer decided to ask her about what she wore under her Black Widow costume,
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she made it very clear what she thought of that question.
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Now, were you able to wear undergarments, if you were?
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You're like the fifth person that's asking that to me.
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What is going on?
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Since when did people start asking each other in interviews about their underwear?
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No, because it is such a skin -tight...
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I'll leave it up to your imagination.
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Well, is it inappropriate?
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But interviewers are not the only ones guilty of treating women this way.
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At the 2014 SAG Awards, Cate Blanchett called out a camera operator for panning down her body.
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You look fabulous.
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Let's start with the dress.
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Who are you wearing today?
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Who am I wearing?
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Givenchy.
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I'm just wondering, do you do that to the guys?
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It's a thing that's just, it just happens.
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What do you think is going to happen down there that is so fascinating?
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And what makes this issue so significant is how long it has been going on.
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Back in 1975, a young Helen Mirren sat down for an interview with British talk show host Michael Parkinson,
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and what he said to her during that interview was
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so disrespectful that it's almost hard to believe it was said on national television.
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mean well i think that they might sort of detract from a performance
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if you know what i mean i can't think
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that can necessarily be true i mean what a crummy performance
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if people are obsessed with the size of your bosom
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or anything else
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and sometimes the problem comes down to interviewers not even bothering to do their homework like in 2014
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when kristen wieg and bill hader sat down to promote their movie the skeleton twins
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and their interviewer made such an embarrassing error
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that it derailed the entire interview kristen i am thinking on this program of doing the news
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completely full frontal completely nude do you recommend that do you have advice for going nude
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you do it in the film not this movie, not this movie, not this movie oh you're not nude in this film,
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you're nude in another one no, the movie you want to go see is called Skeleton Twin Kristen is fully clothed in it,
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I'm fully clothed in it and it's a drama, it is a comedy And just like
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Bill Hader, Tom Hardy also found himself having to shut down a question that never should have been asked.
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At the 2015 press conference for Mad Max Fury Road, a reporter directed a sexist question at him about his female co -stars.
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In the music industry, female artists have always been judged differently for expressing themselves compared to their male peers, and in 2009,
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Lady Gaga confronted that head -on when an interviewer questioned whether the sexual references in her music could undermine her artistry.
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I'm very scared, though, that having sexual references can undermine the music.
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I'm not scared.
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Are you scared?
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No. You're not worried that they'll check out the sexual references and not care about the music?
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No, not at all.
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You see, if I was a guy and I was sitting here with a cigarette in my hand,
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grabbing my crotch and talking about how I make music because I love fast cars and f*ing girls, you'd call me a rock star.
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But when I do it in my music and in my videos, because I'm a female, because I make pop music,
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you are judgmental and you say that it is distracting.
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I'm just a rock star.
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And even on mainstream talk shows, female celebrities are not safe from uncomfortable questions about their bodies.
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Actress Margaret Qualley, who had her breakthrough in Quentin Tarantino's movie
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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, appeared on Jimmy Kimmel's show in 2019 to promote the film
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but the conversation had very little to do with her acting congratulations on being in a quentin tarantino movie
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that's kind of fantastic huh yeah are you too young to really appreciate
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that no you're not good not your feet are prominently featured in the movie
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they're very prominent unfortunately um you play um i think
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we can say you play a member of the manson family a hippie yes you have armpit hair is
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that your real armpit hair
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or is it like little wigs there in the inside no
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i can really i guess grow a lot of them
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and sometimes interviewers ask questions that are so painfully obvious
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that they almost feel like an insult that's exactly what happened to megan fox during an interview in 2014.
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the fact that there aren't really any superhero films with you know super heroines with female leads
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and even the marvel films
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while they have you know scarlett johansson there hasn't been a solo film yeah what do you what's your take on that?
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Do you feel like it's time?
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It's just a matter of time before we see more of those?
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Do you think that I would answer anything but yes to that question?
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Do you think I would be like, no, it's not time for women to be in movies.
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Let's take it back 50 years.
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At the 2015 Grammys, Taylor Swift stopped for a red carpet interview that started with a simple question about her dress.
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But then the interviewer said something completely out of line.
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Can we just
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Get a pan down of this dress.
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You said it's Elie Saab?
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It's beautiful.
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Yeah, it is.
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And it's ombre.
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It's like ombre teal.
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It gets lighter.
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I just wanted to show the legs because as I was telling you ahead of time,
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you're going to walk home with more than maybe just a trophy tonight.
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I think lots of men.
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I'm not going to walk home with any men tonight.
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I'm going to go hang out with my friends and then I go home to the cats.
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And even legendary actresses are not exempt from this kind of treatment.
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In 2017, Jane Fonda sat down alongside Robert Redford to promote.. their film, Our Souls at Night.
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And instead of focusing on the movie, the interviewer decided to ask
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Jane about her plastic surgeries.
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rather than plastic surgery
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and in 2015 ariana grande sat down for a radio interview
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where two male hosts reduced her to a stereotype assuming
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that young women only care about makeup and their phones
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if you could use makeup or your phone one last time
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which one would you pick makeup
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or your is this what you think girls have trouble choosing yeah absolutely yes is this men assuming that
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That's what girls would have to choose between?
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Yes.
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Not a question.
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Can you really go anywhere without your cell phone?
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Yes.
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How long can you go without looking at Twitter?
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Many hours.
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Hours.
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Many hours.
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I don't believe it.

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Deze spreekles is gebaseerd op de video “When Celebrities Confront Sexist Interviewers”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: interviewer, interview, movie, sat, female. Deze video bevat 172 zinnen en 1717 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 11:10. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 154 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. 82% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken. 39 van de 172 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
interviewer zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈɪntɚvjuɚ/interviewer, interviewster
inappropriate bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ˌɪnəˈpɹoʊpɹi.ət/ongepast
nude bijvoeglijk naamwoord/n(j)uːd/vleeskleurig
compare werkwoord/kəmˈpɛɚ/vergelijken
celebrity zelfstandig naamwoord/səˈlɛb.ɹɪ.ɾi/beroemdheid
scare werkwoord/skɛɚ/bang maken, beangstigen
underwear zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈʌndɚˌwɛɹ/ondergoed
actress zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈæk.tɹɪs/actrice
innocent bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ˈɪnəsənt/onnozel, onschuldig
uncomfortable bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/ongemakkelijk
workout zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈwɝk.aʊ̯t/training, oefening
confront werkwoord/kənˈfɹʌnt/confronteren
skeleton zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈskɛlətən/skelet, geraamte
undermine werkwoord/ˌʌn.dɚˈmaɪn/ondermijnen, ontwrichten
sexist bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ˈsɛksɪst/seksistisch

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

WoordBetekenis
check out werkwoordonderzoeken
get off werkwoordvan ... afgaan
show off werkwoordzich aanstellen, pronken met
shut down werkwoordafsluiten, uitzetten
sit down werkwoordgaan zitten

Zinnen om te herhalen

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

  • Do you ever wear underwear?
  • Are you wearing underwear tonight?
  • Do you think I'm going to go with this without the pants?
  • Who do you think I am?
  • Do you feel like it's time?

Grammatica in deze video

De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:

StructuurIn de video
Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doetbeen subjected · was said · is called
Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog teltHave you seen · have always been judged · hasn't been

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 41 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, don't, you're. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

  • De “th”-klanken: bother /ˈbɑðɚ/, breakthrough /ˈbɹeɪk.θɹuː/, clothe /ˈkloʊð/
  • De klanken “sh” en “zh”: congratulations /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/, brush /bɹʌʃ/, imagination /ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/, assumption /əˈsʌm(p).ʃ(ə)n/
  • Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: inappropriate /ˌɪnəˈpɹoʊpɹi.ət/, celebrity /səˈlɛb.ɹɪ.ɾi/, uncomfortable /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/, necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/, congratulations /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

  • Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: nude /n(j)uːd/, alongside /əˌlɔŋˈsaɪd/, naked /ˈneɪkɪd/, congratulations /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/, straightforward /ˌstɹeɪtˈfɔː(ɹ)wə(ɹ)d/
  • /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: actress /ˈæk.tɹɪs/, pants /pænts/, congratulations /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/, pan /pæn/, imagination /ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/
  • /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: congratulations /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/, cigarette /ˈsɪɡəɹɛt/, ignorant /ˈɪɡ.nə.ɹənt/, exempt /ɪɡˈzɛmpt/, wig /wɪɡ/

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  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 interviewer, inappropriate, nude.

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