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He was an international man of mystery who went by many names
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and lived in dozens of places before returning to his own country to lead a revolution.
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We're talking about Ho Chi Minh,
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communist leader of North Vietnam,
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who fought against the United States and won.
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Ho Chi Minh was born Nguyen Sinh Khun in central Vietnam in 1890.
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Vietnam at that time was part of French Indochina,
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a colonial possession of France.
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The future Ho Chi Minh was a good student,
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and according to Confucian tradition,
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was given the name Nguyen Tattan,
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which translates to, the accomplished.
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As a young man, Nguyen decided to see the world,
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so he hopped a French steamer and worked as a kitchen helper under a fake name.
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Specific details are sketchy, but it seems the future revolutionary knocked around for almost a decade.
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While living in Paris, Ho Chi Minh worked as a photo retoucher,
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like Photoshop before there was Photoshop,
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but he was also politically active.
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He tried to petition U.S.
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President Woodrow Wilson during the Versailles peace talks.
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Ho Chi Minh's request?
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That Vietnam be granted independence from French rule.
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Wilson didn't even acknowledge the young Vietnamese national.
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It wasn't long after that that Ho Chi Minh joined the French Communist Party.
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A few years later, he bounced to the USSR while posing as a Chinese merchant named Chen Vang.
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After studying communism in Moscow,
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he moved to Canton, China,
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calling himself Nguyen Ai Kuo.
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Ai Kho.
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Are you keeping track of the number of names this guy used?
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Because I lost count.
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He returned to his native Vietnam in 1940.
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He'd been gone almost 30 years.
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And he finally began to call himself Ho Chi Minh,
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or bringer of light.
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And what did he bring?
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An organization called the Viet Minh,
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which sought an independent Vietnam.
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The Viet Minh took advantage of the chaos caused by World War II,
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and in 1945 seized the northern city of Hanoi.
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Ho Chi Minh became the leader of the new democratic state of Vietnam.
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But the French held on to the southern part of Vietnam,
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and a complicated civil war between the communist north and anti-communist south ensued.
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This ultimately led to U.S involvement in the region,
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as Uncle Sam put his weight behind the anti-communist forces.
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You may have heard of this.
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It's called the Vietnam War.
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The Vietnam War ground on through the 1960s.
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Although Ho Chi Minh had stepped down from day-to-day leadership,
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he remained an important figure for North Vietnam,
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a symbol of Vietnamese unification.
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And he had one more name.
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He was called Uncle Ho.
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However, this friendly moniker obscures many of the negative aspects of Minh's rule.
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He instituted a policy called land reform,
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violently seizing farms from rural landowners,
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killing thousands in the process.
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In addition, after American soldiers took the city away in 1968,
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they discovered a mass grave of 5,700 victims massacred while Minh's forces had occupied the city.
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Late in his life, Uncle Ho gave a wartime message to the North Vietnamese that became a rallying cry for their cause.
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He said, Ho Chi Minh wouldn't live to see this independence, however.
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He died in 1969 at the age of 79.
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But his wish was fulfilled.
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The Vietnam War ended in 1976 with a U.S troop withdrawal and the unification of Vietnam under communist rule.
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After the war, Saigon was renamed Ho Chi Minh City in honor of the former leader.
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The man with no fixed name or address now has both.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les

Deze spreekles op niveau B2 is gebaseerd op de video “Who Was Ho Chi Minh?”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: Vietnam, Minh, Chi, communist, French. Deze video bevat 67 zinnen en 590 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 3:28. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 170 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. Slechts 72% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is pittig.

Belangrijke woorden in deze video

De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:

WoordUitspraakBetekenis
unification zelfstandig naamwoord/ˌjunəfəˈkeɪʃən/eenwording, vereniging
seize werkwoord/ˈsiːz/grijpen, vangen
helper zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈhɛlpɚ/helper, helpster
landowner zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈlændˌoʊ.nɚ/grondbezitter
moniker zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈmɑn.ɪ.kɚ/bijnaam
rename werkwoord/ɹiːˈneɪm/hernoemen
wartime zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈwɔː(ɹ)taɪm/oorlogstijd
violently bijwoord/ˈvaɪ(ə)ləntli/gewelddadig
communism zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈkɒmjᵿnɪz(ə)m/communisme
obscure bijvoeglijk naamwoord/əbˈskjʊɹ/duister
fulfill werkwoord/fʊlˈfɪl/vervullen
massacre zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈmæs.ə.kə(ɹ)/bloedbad
translate werkwoord/tɹænzˈleɪt/vertalen, overzetten
bounce werkwoord/baʊns/stuiteren, ketsen
accomplish werkwoord/əˈkɑm.plɪʃ/volbrengen

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 5 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals didn't, he'd, wasn't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

  • De klanken “sh” en “zh”: unification /ˌjunəfəˈkeɪʃən/, accomplish /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ/, revolutionary /ˌɹɛvəˈluʃənɛɹi/
  • Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: unification /ˌjunəfəˈkeɪʃən/, violently /ˈvaɪ(ə)ləntli/, revolutionary /ˌɹɛvəˈluʃənɛɹi/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

  • Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: seize /ˈsiːz/, pose /poʊz/, acknowledge /əkˈnɑ.lɪd͡ʒ/
  • /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: landowner /ˈlændˌoʊ.nɚ/, massacre /ˈmæs.ə.kə(ɹ)/, translate /tɹænzˈleɪt/
  • /w/ — met ronde lippen: wartime /ˈwɔː(ɹ)taɪm/, withdrawal /wɪðˈdɹɔ(ə)l/

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 unification, seize, helper.

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