Shadowing Practice: When Life Kicks You Down: How to Keep Going When You’ve Lost Hope | Matthew McConaughey - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Let's say someone has been kicked in the nuts a good bit by life.
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How do you advise them to sort of become the hero of their own story?
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Tomorrow is not today's measurement when the misery is bad enough, right?
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These people don't have to the suffering consideration.
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It's a privilege, man.
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I'm trying to put food on the table right now.
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I'm paying my rent tonight.
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You want to talk to me about investing in my future?
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And I say, and that's part of what faith and religion are for.
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To help those in misery hang on to a hope that will most likely not be served them in this life,
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to sell them belief and faith that they will be served in the next.
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And what if there is nothing there, man?
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What if there's nothing to hope for?
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What if there's no next?
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I don't know.
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But either way, in misery here or without a heaven there,
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not having any hope or faith in anything is a certain way to remain where you are forever.
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But if you can find something that you can keep going, something that no matter how small,
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to look forward to and continually have faith in and chase, well, then your life here is going to be better now.
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Heaven or not?
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That's a great question.
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You know, I sit here with a life where I have the luxury to project, to ask myself and ask others,
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no, make a sacrifice today.
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Sacrifice a plastic ring today for a gold crown tomorrow.
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Sacrifice something today for more freedom tomorrow.
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I'm going to sacrifice something today for a possible healthier future for your kids.
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I understand that's a luxurious position.
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I'm not going to apologize that I'm in it.
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But I understand to someone in misery, they're going, good for you, man.
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I'm trying to feed the family tonight.
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I'm not thinking past that.
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I can't think past that.
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What do you ask them to do?
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My indirect thing I would say and understand is, well, if you don't have the hope or believe in something,
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then you're definitely going to remain where you are.
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And if you have hope and faith in something, I'm not saying it's 100 % get out of jail.
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You're going to absolutely get out, but you've got the best chance to.
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God doesn't want to do everything.
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Some of it's up to you.
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Amen.
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And though free will and faith and self -reliance,
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they can seem contradictory, but I think they do rhyme.
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And you need both.
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And we, yes, there's a time for it, inshallah.
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God willing, there's a time for it.
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Well, if it's supposed to be, it will be.
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Yeah, usually right after it happens.
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Yeah, I think George Janko says every man knows God when he's at his lowest.
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That there are reliable times when people turn toward faith.
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And how many people turn at the end of their life?
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How do you think about forgiving betrayal?
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I kind of think of when I've been betrayed.
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When it's clearly betrayal, I know it's betrayal, and that person can look and go, yeah, that's what I did.
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I've been asked for forgiveness for that before, and I've been also seeing people go, yeah, that's what I did.
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And they're not asking for forgiveness.
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They're going, yeah, that's what I did.
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First response is, well, fuck you.
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The second one is, if that's on my mind, if that's keeping me up at night, that SOB or whatever that is,
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I got to flush that.
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I got to wonder why is that on my mind.
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I got to forgive that deed, that person for that deed.
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And again, not necessarily trust them, but do my best to forgive them.
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And that can take me a while.
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And I think who it takes me the most time to forgive the betrayal is me.
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When and if I betray myself.
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Forgiving myself.
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Because you know how it is, man.
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We forgive too quickly.
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We dust resilient.
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We hop up and dust yourself off and go, forgive you, let's do it again.
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And we do become repeat offenders because we didn't take time to put ourself
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or feel the guilt of the wrongdoing and pay a little penance to look at and go, I don't want to feel this again.
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I don't want to do that action again to make myself feel this way.
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I don't, it doesn't, it doesn't feel like me.
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I don't want to, I don't want that person to have
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that sadness or anger with me again or the world to have that sadness and anger from this.
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I don't want to feel that again.
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And that takes some pause to then go, now I forgive myself.
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Let's carry on and trust and be ready to do the work to say, we're not going to just let that slide anymore.
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It's not going to be a way to sneak that one in.
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I'm going to hold myself to a higher standard.
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Yeah.
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Where do you go?
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What do you think when I really, I gave it my all that I bad myself and I still got kicked in the nuts?
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Yeah.
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Not only did I feel like I deserve it, I feel like I earned it.
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And I still didn't get it.
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Wait a minute, but you said that's the playbook and I followed the playbook.
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You said these were the rules and the regulations.
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I followed it.
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and I was good at it.
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I still didn't get it.
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I suppose that's why we have entrepreneurs and criminals.
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I have to, I think I naturally come back.
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And look, I hustle.
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I'm not puritanical.
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I'm not making, I'm not trying to preach an absolute straight and narrow way to go things.
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I've bullshitted my way into things and faked my way into making things, pulled off stunts.
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But I've never been able to really live with, by hook or by crook, I'll get it how I can get it.
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I'll lie, cheat, and steal to get it.
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I got the prize, and I'm still okay.
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I got it.
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My own shadow chases me down in the middle of the night, and those nightmares do become my own daymares.
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Now, the going for it and not getting it, which we see a lot now.
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Right now, I think we're living in times where one of the indirect examples we're seeing from some leadership is who's got the power?
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Winner.
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Okay.
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So what are the ethics?
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whatever the winner does yeah but the winner like and pillaged
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and lying cheating still to get the prize
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but he won wait a minute you move the goalpost
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while I had the ball was in the air man is
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that okay they won and to I'm not buying to say I'm not ready to purchase
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that okay that's just how it is
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles is gebaseerd op de video “When Life Kicks You Down: How to Keep Going When You’ve Lost Hope”. Deze video bevat 114 zinnen en 1161 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 6:23. De spreker praat snel, ongeveer 182 woorden per minuut, dus reken op verbonden en ingeslikte klanken. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| forgive werkwoord | /fɚˈɡɪv/ | vergeven |
| sacrifice zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈsæk.ɹɪ.faɪs/ | opoffering |
| misery zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈmɪz(ə)ɹi/ | ellende |
| chase werkwoord | /t͡ʃeɪs/ | achtervolgen, achternazitten |
| anger zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈæŋɡə/ | boosheid, woede |
| dust zelfstandig naamwoord | /dʌst/ | stof |
| cheat werkwoord | /ˈt͡ʃiːt/ | valsspelen, bedriegen |
| indirect bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˌɪn.daɪˈɹɛkt/ | onrechtstreeks, indirect |
| sadness zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈsædnəs/ | verdriet, droefenis |
| forgiveness zelfstandig naamwoord | /fɚˈɡɪvnəs/ | vergeving, vergiffenis |
| deed zelfstandig naamwoord | /diːd/ | daad |
| earn werkwoord | /ɝn/ | verdienen |
| naturally bijwoord | /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/ | natuurlijk |
| necessarily bijwoord | /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/ | nodig, noodzakelijk |
| belief zelfstandig naamwoord | /bɪˈliːf/ | geloof |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Betekenis |
|---|---|
| come back werkwoord | terugkomen |
| look forward to werkwoord | uitkijken naar, zich verheugen op |
Zinnen om te herhalen
Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:
- I'm paying my rent tonight.
- You want to talk to me about investing in my future?
- What if there's nothing to hope for?
- What do you ask them to do?
- How do you think about forgiving betrayal?
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | has been kicked · I've been betrayed · I've been asked |
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | has been kicked · be served · will be served |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 47 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, don't, I've. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: shadow /ˈʃædəʊ̯/, regulation /ˌɹɛɡjʊˈleɪʃən/, luxury /ˈlʌk.ʃə.ɹi/, consideration /kənˌsɪd.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, measurement /ˈmɛʒ.ə.mənt/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/, regulation /ˌɹɛɡjʊˈleɪʃən/, consideration /kənˌsɪd.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, apologize /əˈpɑləˌd͡ʒaɪz/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: forgive /fɚˈɡɪv/, deed /diːd/, slide /ˈslaɪ̯d/, privilege /ˈpɹɪv.(ɪ.)lɪd͡ʒ/, apologize /əˈpɑləˌd͡ʒaɪz/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: sacrifice /ˈsæk.ɹɪ.faɪs/, anger /ˈæŋɡə/, sadness /ˈsædnəs/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, shadow /ˈʃædəʊ̯/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: forgive /fɚˈɡɪv/, anger /ˈæŋɡə/, forgiveness /fɚˈɡɪvnəs/, regulation /ˌɹɛɡjʊˈleɪʃən/, guilt /ɡɪlt/
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 forgive, sacrifice, misery.
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.