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Weed is a serious drug that can have devastating consequences for your life.
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This is an unpopular thing to say but it is true.
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We don’t think it should be illegal because for most people using weed is not problematic or has only mild negative consequences.
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But about 20% of people who have ever tried it develop cannabis use disorder, and some of them become severely addicted.
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That’s actually a stunning amount of people and many who start using weed don’t know what they are in for.
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In the US, daily or near daily weed use has skyrocketed since way before legalization and there are now more daily users of weed than drinkers of alcohol.
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And most daily users consume very high amounts.
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In 2023, 1 in 15 adult Americans were suffering from some form of cannabis addiction.
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In England, cannabis is by far the top drug teenagers seek help for.
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Today we’ll ignore medical use, casual users and people with mild problems and instead we focus on the people who have a serious addiction or are in danger of developing one, even if they are not aware of it.
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Weed is usually discussed in the context of teenagers because using any drug while your brain is melting and rebuilding itself is a bad idea.
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Instead we’ll have a frank conversation about how it affects you in your 20s and 30s.
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We will combine research with our own personal experience of weed addiction – unfortunately we do have plenty of both.
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Please check out our sources but also know this script is written by someone who used weed daily for 15 years before quitting.
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Ok, so let’s get into it.
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Becoming Addicted By Accident Most people slip into addiction gradually and slowly.
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They start using weed for a variety of reasons, to experiment, to cope or unwind from stress, because it is fun and easily available.
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Weed can make you feel more alive and things more exciting.
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Music sounds better, movies are funnier, food is a delight.
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It can be great fun with friends and a major source of comfort.
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The frequency with which you are consuming weed is the most obvious thing to look out for.
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If you are using daily or almost daily this is a clear sign you are developing a problem.
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As a daily user your risk of cannabis use disorder is up to 30% and certainly a pretty relevant risk, since it might take years before you realize the full weight of it.
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So if you are not careful about it, what started out as an occasional high becomes more and more normalized.
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Bit by bit your weekends revolve around weed or shift to activities that you can do stoned.
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Often other hobbies or obligations become less of a priority.
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Then it creeps into most weekdays and finally it is an established ritual every day.
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Over time, weed’s nature changes.
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The joy enhancing effects dissipate, while a comfortable numbness takes over.
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Weed can become your primary method of coping with life but it doesn’t make you stronger, better or more resilient.
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Instead it covers up negative emotions by building a snail shell that you can retreat into.
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Do you have a problem with weed?
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Super easy test: Stop doing it for four weeks, starting today.
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Not tomorrow, today.
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No matter what you have coming up.
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If that feels challenging or you can’t make it, this should give you food for thought.
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Once weed has become a daily or near daily habit the cumulative damage to your life can be profound.
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Forever Tomorrow For problematic weed users, life can sometimes progress in slow motion – the addiction keeps you where you are, while your body ages and your friends move forward.
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But youth masks stagnation.
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For years you don’t notice how much weed might be holding you back, because if you are young, life changes by itself – the outside world takes on the initiative and provides a lot of support for you.
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You are surrounded by peers, may still have childhood friends, progress through school, start work or university and find new places and friendships.
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Moving slowly is kind of ok in your twenties as life naturally throws experiences and challenges at you.
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But it is still not great for you.
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This is the time where your body is probably at its peak and you can use it for things you will not be able to do later.
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From sports to dating and staying out late, traveling and experiencing the world.
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It is the easiest time to build a healthy social life, the greatest predictor of how happy you will be over the next few decades.
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You will likely never have fewer responsibilities again, so you can explore and take risks.
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Spending this time stoned with passive activities like scrolling over reposts on reddit is something you might regret later.
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You’ll never get this period of your life back.
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As you age out of your twenties things change massively.
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Around this time most people naturally tone down their weed consumption or quit entirely.
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You are entering one of life's great inflection points.
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And you risk getting left behind.
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Your Social Life is Different After 30 Friendships need care, attention and active time investment to survive and weed addiction works against you on multiple levels.
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Studies show that for some people weed can worsen social anxiety especially if you start using more and more.
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And once you feel anxious about socializing, it becomes pretty tempting to just stay home and avoid events or new experiences.
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Since weed numbs feelings it’s easy to push away FOMO or guilt about canceling last minute.
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You’ll go next time!! But will you?
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Speaking from personal experience – you may turn into a friend that is unreliable, flaky or rarely shows up anymore.
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But the more opportunities to hang with friends you skip, the fewer will be there in the future.
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Especially if you do weed alone it can become the central focal point in your life.
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Reports show that many people with addictions gradually reduce the activities or hobbies they once enjoyed in favor of consuming.
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Bit by bit this can make you withdraw from the people in your life.
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While this can be pretty bad for your social life in your 20s it may be catastrophic by the time you turn 30.
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Because in their 30s most people are plenty busy.
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Careers, partners, travel, children and their closest friends are now priorities.
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Free time becomes super valuable and casual hang outs turn into two adults comparing their calendars.
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So people in their 30s are way more selective about what and who they spend their time with.
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Smoking a joint drops way down their priority list.
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Even without falling out, you may simply become incompatible if your identity becomes tied up with weed, or when your friends have a lot going on and you don’t.
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This happens a lot without weed, but weed can supercharge it.
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So many problematic weed users focus on a small circle of friends and acquaintances who are also using weed.
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This can create an isolation trap: If your friends quit or they withdraw to use it alone, you can face sudden isolation and loneliness.
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Or you may feel pressure to keep using it because you are scared of losing your friends.
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It is harder and takes longer to make new friends in your 30s than in your 20s, so to change your situation you need courage, energy and motivation – things weed addiction makes much harder to muster.
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Worse still, people who feel lonely tend to use more weed to cope – which is linked to even more social isolation.
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Weed can fill the role of your best friend. It is there when you are lonely, it makes you feel ok in the moment.
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Your love life can also suffer.
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Social anxiety and complacency is a great motivator to put off dating and having sexual experiences in your 20s and it doesn’t get much easier as time passes.
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In relationships weed addiction can be extremely disruptive.
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Reports show that partners of daily users can feel neglected, that couple communication can break down and that trust evaporates.
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The addicted partner usually doesn’t realize how poorly they are handling relationship issues and can be blindsided when their love leaves them.
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And to be frank, in their 30s people want a partner who is ready to share the growing responsibilities of adulthood and wants to build a life together – the older you get, the more unattractive your weed addiction makes you.
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Ok but who needs friends or love if you have a career, right?
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Well… The Achievement Delay Machine Long term studies show that heavy weed users are more likely to end up with reduced academic performance, a worse education, lower income, less savings, and less stable employment.
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Even when compared to people from similar family backgrounds and social class.
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Many people with weed addiction struggle to show up for work, they’re not productive, they procrastinate and they fail to meet their responsibilities.
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The consequences of missed opportunities and bad decisions slowly accumulate.
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Maybe you skipped networking events, had no ambition and didn’t get promoted, or hopped between entry-level jobs.
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It is also much harder to build up savings since the addiction can cost you thousands each year.
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In your 20s you transition from being useless to being good at something.
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And so in your 30s expectations from others and yourself change sharply.
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People tend to cut you a lot of slack when you are young, but this has an expiration date.
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The older you get, the worse it feels to compare yourself to peers that are moving on in life and start achieving things.
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And it is not just career goals, if you spend a decade or two using weed all the time you grow less as a person.
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You probably traveled less, went out less, met fewer people, had fewer interesting experiences and in a way, lived less than your peers.
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Which also really becomes noticeable in your 30s.
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In some studies, long term chronic weed users had significantly lower life satisfaction, from their motivation and pursuit of personal goals, social and love life to careers and options.
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Your life may just overall be much less fun and fulfilling that it could have been.
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On top of all of this your mental health is the final thing that you may erode over time.
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The Prison of Weed What makes weed addiction so devious is how at first it can seem to improve your mental health.
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It can calm anxiety or depressive feelings, make you more relaxed and feel less lonely.
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But weed acts on your brain’s reward system and the effects can flip without you noticing.
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Weed can damage your ability to regulate your emotions and can worsen anxiety or depressive feelings and can escalate into serious mental disorders.
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Which you might think that you can self medicate against by doing even more weed.
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This can impair your coping skills, making you fragile and easily overwhelmed, unable to deal with stress, increase anxiety or depressive symptoms, worsen your mood, cause mood swings and irritability.
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The addiction can hold back a dam of bottled up negative feelings that is ready to crash into you and the people around you, at any time.
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Until eventually it doesn’t work anymore.
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Especially during a mental health crisis, weed can make things much worse for you.
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On the flipside there is research that shows that addicted people who give up weed experience a noticeable improvement in their mental health.
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Here is the thing.
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All the negatives we talked about, missing your life as it flies by, social isolation and not even getting close to living up to your potential are not happening some time in the future but today.
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No matter your age.
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If you find yourself addicted or in danger of becoming addicted, there is a way out.
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It is not fun and it will be hard.
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You need to quit.
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And the earlier you do, the better your life will be.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau C2 is gebaseerd op de video “You Need To Quit Weed”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: weed, addiction, daily, user. Deze video bevat 128 zinnen en 2188 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 12:23. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 177 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| addict zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈæd.ɪkt/ | verslaafde |
| isolation zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃən/ | isolatie |
| cannabis zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈkæ.nə.bɪs/ | hennep, cannabis |
| worsen werkwoord | /ˈwɝsn̩/ | verergeren |
| problematic bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˌpɹɑ.bləˈmæt.ɪk/ | problematisch, twijfelachtig |
| consume werkwoord | /kənˈsum/ | consumeren, verbruiken |
| consequence zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈkɑn.sɪ.kwəns/ | gevolg, consequentie |
| noticeable bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈnəʊtɪsəbl̩/ | merkbaar |
| broker zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈbɹoʊkɚ/ | tussenpersoon, makelaar |
| hobby zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈhɑ.bi/ | hobby, vrijetijdsbesteding |
| withdraw werkwoord | /wɪðˈdɹɔ/ | terugtrekken |
| teenager zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈtiːnˌeɪ̯d͡ʒə/ | tiener, adolescent |
| accumulate werkwoord | /əˈkjuːmjʊˌleɪt/ | opstapelen, vermeerderen |
| complacency zelfstandig naamwoord | /kəmˈpleɪsənˌsiː/ | zelfgenoegzaamheid, zelftevredenheid |
| devious bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈdiː.vi.əs/ | heimelijk, onoprecht |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Betekenis |
|---|---|
| break down werkwoord | stukgaan, kapot gaan |
| build up werkwoord | opstapelen |
| check out werkwoord | onderzoeken |
| fall out werkwoord | in onmin raken |
| get off werkwoord | van ... afgaan |
| give up werkwoord | zich overgeven |
| go out werkwoord | naar buiten gaan |
| leave behind werkwoord | achterlaten |
Zinnen om te herhalen
Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:
- Do you have a problem with weed?
- You’ll never get this period of your life back.
- You are entering one of life's great inflection points.
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 | is usually discussed · is written · has been sold |
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | have ever tried · has skyrocketed · has become |
| Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding | people who have · someone who used · data, which can |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 16 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals don't, doesn't, we'll. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: isolation /ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃən/, expiration /ˌɛk.spɚˈeɪ̯.ʃən/, inflection /ɪnˈflɛkʃən/, socialize /ˈsoʊʃəlaɪz/, stagnation /stæɡˈneɪʃn̩/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: isolation /ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃən/, problematic /ˌpɹɑ.bləˈmæt.ɪk/, accumulate /əˈkjuːmjʊˌleɪt/, complacency /kəmˈpleɪsənˌsiː/, evaporate /ɪˈvæp.ə.ɹeɪt/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: depressive /dɪˈpɹɛsɪv/, blindside /ˈblaɪndˌsaɪd/, disruptive /dɪsˈɹʌptɪv/, flipside /ˈflɪpˌsaɪd/, normalize /ˈnɔː.mə.laɪz/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: addict /ˈæd.ɪkt/, cannabis /ˈkæ.nə.bɪs/, problematic /ˌpɹɑ.bləˈmæt.ɪk/, evaporate /ɪˈvæp.ə.ɹeɪt/, incompatible /ˌɪŋkəmˈpætɪbəl/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: stagnation /stæɡˈneɪʃn̩/, neglect /nɪˈɡlɛkt/, regulate /ˈɹɛɡ.jə.leɪt/, obligation /ˌɑ.blɪˈɡeɪ.ʃn̩/
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 addict, isolation, cannabis.
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