Shadowing Practice: Where Dollars Die and Are Reborn - Learn English Speaking with Video
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- Money.
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It's everywhere.
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But what happens when your bills get old and need to be replaced by new ones?
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That means old cash needs to be destroyed.
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A lot of cash.
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This is not, however, the story of money growing on trees, but of trees, growing out of money.
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Well, more like vegetables.
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- We are here at the Federal Reserve Bank in New Orleans, and this is where we shred millions of dollars.
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My name is Dean Wortha, I'm the lead business analyst for cash services here at the New Orleans Fed.
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We are the nation's bank.
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Our job is to make sure that we have a supply of currency.
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Also part of that is to ensure that we remove unfit, old dirty currency from circulation.
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So here on average, we shred about six million dollars in dirty money every day.
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This could be for any number of reasons.
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It could be because the note has rips in it, holes in it, tears in it.
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It could have tape on it, it could have graffiti written all over it.
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We don't want that note going back into circulation.
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If it has any sort of those qualities, it will be shredded.
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What we used to do is take all of these currency shreds and they would just wind up as waste, going to a landfill.
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Now, through a lot of work and effort, we finally figured out a way where we can take these shreds and ultimately recycle them.
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- So all that green leaves the Fed and heads to a compost facility where it turns into something quite useful.
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- What you're looking at right now is 24 million dollars.
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But the soil that is creates will be priceless.
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My name is Johnathan Christian.
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We turn cash into soil.
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It is definitely one of our secret ingredients.
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It's little in content, but it's huge in what it provides.
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Currency that's deemed unfit is brought to our facility at Wooden Materials.
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From there we go through a simple composting process where we convert that into a healthy soil.
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Our compost is used primarily by urban farmers in the greater New Orleans area.
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- One of these farmers is Simond Menasche.
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- And this is a million dollar farm.
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We are making fresh, local food accessible in New Orleans.
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We've grown veggies, herbs, cucumbers, tomatoes and peppers.
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The vegetables we grow here are made out of composted cash.
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It is very fulfilling to be growing, using a material that would otherwise go to waste.
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One man's trash is another man's treasure.
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- And that's the story of how we grow tomatoes out of cash.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze video bevat 38 zinnen en 436 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 2:51. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 153 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. 84% 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 minder gangbare woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
- currency /ˈkʌɹ.ən.si/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — munteenheid, valuta. Money or other items used to facilitate transactions.
- soil /sɔɪl/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — grond, aarde. A mixture of mineral particles and organic material, used to support plant growth.
- farmer /ˈfɑɹ.mɚ/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — boer, boerin. A person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock; anyone engaged in agriculture on a farm.
- circulation /ˌsɝkjʊˈleɪʃən/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — omloop. The act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began.
- vegetable /ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — groente, gewas. A plant raised for some edible part of it, such as the leaves, roots, fruit or flowers, but excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, herb, or spice…
- tomato /təˈmeɪ.toʊ/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — tomaat. A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum, having edible fruit.
- trash /tɹæʃ/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — vuilnis, vuil. Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
- tear /tɛɹ/ (werkwoord) — scheuren. To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate.
- rip /ɹɪp/ (werkwoord) — scheuren. To divide or separate the parts of (especially something flimsy, such as paper or fabric), by cutting or tearing; to tear off or out by violence.
- leaf /lif/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — blad. The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
- accessible /əkˈsɛs.ɪ.bəl/ (bijvoeglijk naamwoord) — toegankelijk. Easy of access or approach.
- treasure /ˈtɹɛʒəɹ/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — schat. A collection of valuable things; accumulated wealth; a stock of money, jewels, etc.
- pepper /ˈpɛp.ə/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — peper. A plant of the family Piperaceae.
- fulfill /fʊlˈfɪl/ (werkwoord) — vervullen. To satisfy, carry out, bring to completion (an obligation, a requirement, etc.).
- herb /hɜːb/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — keukenkruid. A plant whose stem is not woody and does not persist beyond each growing season.
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
- figure out (werkwoord) — uitvogelen, er achter komen. To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.
- turn into (werkwoord) — overgaan. To become.
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 4 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals don't, I'm, we've. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: circulation /ˌsɝkjʊˈleɪʃən/, trash /tɹæʃ/, treasure /ˈtɹɛʒəɹ/, shred /ʃɹɛd/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: circulation /ˌsɝkjʊˈleɪʃən/, primarily /ˈpɹaɪ.mə.ɹə.li/, accessible /əkˈsɛs.ɪ.bəl/, ingredient /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/
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 currency, soil, farmer.
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | be replaced · be destroyed · will be shredded |
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — iets dat nu of in deze periode gebeurt | you're looking · are making |
| Toekomst met “will” will + werkwoord — een besluit, belofte of voorspelling | will be |
| Verplichting: must / have to / need to zeggen dat iets nodig is | need to be · needs to be |
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.