Shadowing Practice: Working as a Fire Protection Engineer - First Six Months Experience - Learn English Speaking with Video
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It's now been half a year since I started working as a fire engineer
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and during that time I had a total of 53 projects ranging from smaller projects like sheds
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and offices to shopping centers and health clinics and here are some of my thoughts.
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For my first day at work I got a quick introduction to the basic commands in AutoCAD
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and the company's routines and was then handed the CAD drawings of a new building.
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I got a few minutes to look at it before having
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a meeting with my co-worker without really knowing anything about consultant
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work whatsoever where the drawings was for a new two-story shopping center with a two-story parking garage
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and this was going to be my first ever project.
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That specific project quite literally just started digging just around a month ago
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which got me understanding of how long the pre-building process of new buildings actually take.
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Now that I got quite a routine built I start every new project by going through the plans of the building, seeing a situation in comparison to other buildings,
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as well as a distance to the closest fire department.
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I then instantly start to sketch out the ideas of how
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the fire protection strategy can be made as efficiently as possible
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with my knowledge of the pre-accepted rulesets from the regulations before even writing a single word in the report.
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After sketching off the drawings, I get it up in the report, running down the criteria given for the specific risk category that the building is set in, using the regulation's 17 chapters on fire safety,
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ranging from a building's load-bearing capacity to securing the safety of the fire department in an emergency situation.
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If there's some parts of the regulation that seems a bit redundant for for the specific buildings or even hard to achieve, it might be needed to do some extra analysis,
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calculations or simulations to prove that the fire safety of the building is achieved without that specific criteria.
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So far during my 53 projects, there's been the need to do that for 60% of them.
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So it's quite a common practice.
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Doing this involves doing some other measures such as the installment of sprinkler systems where it's not technically a requirement, direct alarm to the fire departments,
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or just passive measures that will just secure a quick egress of the building.
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But I think I'll dive more into that in a different video.
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It gets quite hard to keep track of all the projects, as in a busy day you might work on up towards 10 different projects at the same time, so to stay organized I got a folder with shortcuts to all my projects,
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links from our work database, while also typing up the progress of each project onto my personal Notion page or OneNote.
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When I first started I was very afraid to do any mistakes, as a slight mishap from my part might result in an unsafe construction being built
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but luckily our internal quality control ensures
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that there's at least three engineers on each project where one creates the product one does a thorough quality control
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and a third person evaluates the quality control as the final
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step before the project is sent out to a customer
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if it's a more complicated project where some of the solutions
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are not amongst the regulations pre-accepted ones it might also require the separate quality control from a different firm
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which has their own multi-step quality control it really puts your mind to ease a little bit more than
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if you were the sole responsible person for each project.
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All in all, I really like my job.
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The fact that every building is different and
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that some buildings will require a totally new solution
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that needs to be simulated and documented to fit the regulations makes it that you're constantly learning something new.
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There's also different routes to take as a fire engineer, but becoming a fire safety advisor was most likely the best fit for me personally as I enjoy using my brain.
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And even though it's mainly an office job, you also get to go out on site and see what the sentences that you write in the report actually mean.
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Another route
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that I would personally consider doing is experimental fire research as
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you get to see more of what the different solutions Amongst other things actually does firsthand.
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So during my bachelor thesis we did multiple full-scale experiments and I had a lot of fun
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So we did experiments using water curtain sprinklers protecting windows towards an outdoor emergency path
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So you can watch this playlist next if you're interested in
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that it shows the whole process from gathering theory to finishing the actual experiments Anyways, thanks for watching and have a good one.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau C1 is gebaseerd op de video “Working as a Fire Protection Engineer - First Six Months Experience”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: project, quality, regulation, safety, specific. Deze video bevat 49 zinnen en 814 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 3:39. De spreker praat snel, ongeveer 223 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
De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| criterion zelfstandig naamwoord | /kɹaɪˈtɪɹ.i.ən/ | criterium |
| sketch zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈskɛt͡ʃ/ | schets |
| mishap zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈmɪshæp/ | ongeluk, vergissing |
| shortcut zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈʃɔːtkʌt/ | sluiproute |
| installment zelfstandig naamwoord | /ɪnˈstɔːl.mənt/ | afbetaling, schijf |
| redundant bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ɹɪˈdʌn.dənt/ | overbodig, overtollig |
| playlist zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈpleɪˌlɪst/ | afspeellijst, playlist |
| unsafe bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ʌnˈseɪf/ | onveilig |
| folder zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈfoʊldɚ/ | hechtmap, map |
| calculation zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˌkælkjuˈleɪʃn̩/ | berekening |
| efficiently bijwoord | op een efficiënte manier | |
| curtain zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈkɜɹt(ə)n/ | gordijn |
| luckily bijwoord | /ˈlʌk.ɪ.li/ | gelukkig |
| thorough bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈθʌɹoʊ/ | grondig, diepgaand |
| bachelor zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈbæt͡ʃ.ə.lə(ɹ)/ | bachelor |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Betekenis |
|---|---|
| run down werkwoord | aanrijden |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 3 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals you're, I'll. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De “th”-klanken: thorough /ˈθʌɹoʊ/, thesis /ˈθisɪs/
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: shortcut /ˈʃɔːtkʌt/, calculation /ˌkælkjuˈleɪʃn̩/, simulation /ˌsɪm.jəˈleɪ.ʃn̩/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: criterion /kɹaɪˈtɪɹ.i.ən/, whatsoever /ˌ(h)wʌtsoʊˈɛvɚ/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: firsthand /ˈfɜːstˌhænd/, organize /ˈɔɹɡənaɪz/, passive /ˈpæs.ɪv/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: firsthand /ˈfɜːstˌhænd/, mishap /ˈmɪshæp/, calculation /ˌkælkjuˈleɪʃn̩/, bachelor /ˈbæt͡ʃ.ə.lə(ɹ)/, advisor /ædˈvaɪ.zə(ɹ)/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: egress /ˈiːɡɹɛs/, organize /ˈɔɹɡənaɪz/
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 criterion, sketch, mishap.
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.