Shadowing Practice: Your Assumptions About People Could Be Wrong, Here's Why | Reverse Assumptions - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Music Where do you work?
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I am a freelancer.
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I've been working in advertising for a little bit.
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What do you do for a living?
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I am a residential coordinator.
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My job is to help people with mental disabilities, maintain a sense of independence in the workplace and in the neighborhood.
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I work in a home with adults with mental disabilities.
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I've also worked as a teacher and with students with mental disabilities.
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What do you do?
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I teach voice lessons to people and I music direct children's musicals.
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What's your family like?
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I have a pretty big family.
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I'm the youngest.
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My brother was in a motorcycle accident a month after I graduated high school
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and he ended up losing his right arm and had a traumatic brain injury.
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I never thought about ableism or being an abled body person until this happened.
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I have a disability and throughout my life I had some insecurities about it.
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Like how was I supposed to like contribute in a world
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that I felt like everyone had the same abilities and I had different?
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Like I feel for your brother, you know?
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A wise woman she told me, you know, I shouldn't, don't feel sorry for them.
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They don't want that.
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They just want you to understand.
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I myself suffer from mental illness in a sense, and I hardly ever talk about it.
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It took me years to recover, literally recover my psyche.
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I've been working with people with disabilities since I was 17.
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But the things that I've seen, it made me so much more of an advocate.
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It's weird that growing up, I feel like my parents were always really fearful for me getting into adulthood.
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And I kind of always thought like, why don't you guys think I have a future?
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We live in kind of like a new world.
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Now we're talking about it.
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Now this is like an open thing.
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What do you like about yourself?
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I'm athletic.
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I mean, I work out.
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I try to get some cardio in, and I'm good at it.
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Yeah, well, you have that up on me.
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I hate exercise so much.
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I like the kind of exercise where you don't have to think about the fact that you're exercising.
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You sound like you're 25.
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I bet you got a blue shirt on, blue jeans.
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I bet you was born in Chicago.
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I bet you are a soprano, because I know you say as you're saying.
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You are some type of Hispanic background,
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between like 5'10", 6' tall, around your late 30s.
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I think you are 29.
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I think you're wearing a t-shirt and jeans.
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I think you're from the East Coast, maybe like Pennsylvania.
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Maybe mixed, maybe Asian.
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Kind of petite, short.
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I know you give small little hints at some kind of walking apparatus.
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Not in the chair, though.
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I feel like you're pretty young, 19, 20.
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Hey.
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Hey.
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What's up?
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I was right about a couple things.
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It's so weird having a couple conversations.
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I was visualizing you a whole different way.
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Oh, really?
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A whole different.
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I thought you had a blue shirt.
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You got the brown hair.
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I said you were 29?
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No, I'm not.
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I'm 23.
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Oh, what's all I?
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You said I was 25.
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I'm from the south.
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I'm from EFUS.
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I'm from EFUS, embassy.
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I'm from San Jose, Silicon Valley.
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Oh, okay.
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I am German, not Norwegian.
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You're not German in here?
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Sure, yeah.
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Like a lot.
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You said I was a soprano, I'm not.
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Oh, alto?
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Yeah, low voice.
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Alto, I was a tenor.
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That makes sense.
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You sound like a tenor.
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Let's just sing randomly.
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Sure, yeah.
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Let's sing a song.
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Alright.
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What you saying?
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What's all I going to say?
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We'll do that later.
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Hi.
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Hi.
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Finally I actually meet you.
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I feel like I know you.
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I did not expect you in a chair other than when you gave tiny little hints.
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It threw me off for a second.
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And I'm actually 29.
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29?
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Wow.
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I was really off.
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You were right.
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I actually am Asian, which no one guesses.
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So you guessed it without looking.
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In looking now, I was like, I was wrong.
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You gave me some inches, I was like, sweet, I'll take it.
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What do you got?
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I think you said five, eight, six.
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I'm like, oh my god, I'm like five, seven, on a good day, maybe?
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I said short, petite, so I was pretty spot on.
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I don't know how tall you would be.
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I don't think you would tower over me.
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No, 5'1".
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As we get older, things get harder, right?
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I'm just having to come to face with the fact that I think I'm a little sensitive.
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I think you're too hard on yourself.
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I think you just feel things and that's good.
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Yeah.
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You're like, I'm sensitive.
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You're just, you're a person with feelings. For sure. For sure.
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I gotta ask you, what's like the toughest challenge that I'm like? getting dressed, getting fed.
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No, so I'm actually not confined to the chair.
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I can do a little bit of walking, but I walked a lot as a kid, and I only started using the wheelchair when I was in high school.
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But I grew up with my parents being fearful of my future, you know?
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Like, I don't know how she's gonna make it in the world.
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And they would say things to me like, well, we wanna get a house that we can have like an apartment that you can live in, like a basement apartment.
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I'm like, I don't need to live with you.
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I can do this on my own.
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It was nice to meet you, Oshie.
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Yeah, it was nice to meet you too.
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Carolyn, it was really nice meeting you.
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I honestly had a great experience just talking to you.
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So I don't know if you're a handshaker or a hugger, but I still give you hugs.
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Yeah.
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That's just awesome.
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It was fun.
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It's nice to meet you, Albert.
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Likewise.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau B2 is gebaseerd op de video “Your Assumptions About People Could Be Wrong, Here's Why”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: disabilities, mental, meet. Deze video bevat 136 zinnen en 1005 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 5:59. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 168 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. Slechts 78% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is pittig. 21 van de 136 zinnen zijn vragen, dus het is goede oefening voor vraagintonatie en korte antwoorden.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| alto zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈæl.toʊ/ | alt |
| fearful bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈfɪəfəl/ | angstig, bang |
| hint zelfstandig naamwoord | /hɪnt/ | aanwijzing |
| ableism zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈeɪ.bə.lɪ.zəm/ | validisme, disablisme |
| confine werkwoord | /ˈkɑnfaɪn/ | begrenzen, inperken |
| freelancer zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈfɹiˌlæn.səɹ/ | freelancer, zzp'er |
| visualize werkwoord | /ˈvɪʒuəˌlaɪz/ | visualiseren |
| insecurity zelfstandig naamwoord | onzekerheid | |
| adulthood zelfstandig naamwoord | volwassenheid | |
| apparatus zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˌæp.əˈɹeɪ.təs/ | toestel, apparaat |
| traumatic bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /tɹɔˈmætɪk/ | traumatisch |
| wheelchair zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈ(h)wilt͡ʃɛɹ/ | rolstoel |
| workplace zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈwɝkˌpleɪs/ | werkplek, arbeidsplaats |
| likewise bijwoord | /ˈlaɪkˌwaɪz/ | evenzo, eveneens |
| youngest bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈjʌŋ.ɡɪst/ | jongst |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| end up werkwoord | belanden, terechtkomen | |
| grow up werkwoord | opgroeien | |
| work out werkwoord | /ˌwɝk ˈaʊt/ | uitrekenen |
Zinnen om te herhalen
Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:
- What do you do for a living?
- What's your family like?
- What do you like about yourself?
- What's all I going to say?
- I gotta ask you, what's like the toughest challenge that I'm like?
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 continuous have/has been + -ing — iets dat eerder begon en nog bezig is | I've been working |
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | I've also worked · I've seen |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 51 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, you're, don't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: ableism /ˈeɪ.bə.lɪ.zəm/, apparatus /ˌæp.əˈɹeɪ.təs/, motorcycle /ˈmoʊtɚˌsaɪkəl/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: jeans /d͡ʒiːnz/, visualize /ˈvɪʒuəˌlaɪz/, likewise /ˈlaɪkˌwaɪz/, hug /hʌɡ/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: alto /ˈæl.toʊ/, soprano /səˈpɹænoʊ/, freelancer /ˈfɹiˌlæn.səɹ/, apparatus /ˌæp.əˈɹeɪ.təs/, traumatic /tɹɔˈmætɪk/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: hugger /ˈhʌɡɚ/, youngest /ˈjʌŋ.ɡɪst/, hug /hʌɡ/
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 alto, fearful, hint.
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.