Shadowing Practice: How Native Speakers Really Use Reported Speech in Dutch | Melanie Talk - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Hi everyone and welcome back to Melanie Talk, the podcast where we help you really speak Dutch.
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Of course, you are a self-sacred Dutch, every day again.
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And I'm Hans Klaassen.
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Hi everyone, what a nice thing that you are here today.
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Hans, how is it going with you?
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Good, good.
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Although there is something that happened to me where I can't stop.
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Oh, tell me.
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Well, I was yesterday coffee drinking with Sander and he told me something very fascinating about Lisa.
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Oh, what did he then?
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He said that Lisa blight overweegt to go to another city.
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Wait, really?
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That is what he said.
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And then he said that she was already beginning with looking for apartments.
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Oh wow, I really didn't know.
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I don't know.
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And then, and this is the interesting part, he had to be a long time ago
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that she had been told him that she had been told him a few months ago without telling him. And?
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Have you noticed what you did?
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What?
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You reported so just in a very natural way, with expressions like, blijkbaar, he noemde,
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he had been told him. That did I, yes.
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Without thinking there.
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And that is precisely the subject of today.
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In our first episode of indirect reden, we handled all the rules, times changes, for-names, changes, and told them.
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And today we are deeper.
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We look at how native speakers indirect reden really use in echte conversations.
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Fluent and natural.
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Not the version of the book, but the real version.
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Because there is a big difference between the rules of the name and the name of the name.
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And today we are going to show you the Kloof.
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And before we start, subscribe to Melanie Talk.
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Every day a new episode.
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You can see this with a friend who knows the rules of the indirect reason, but not of course.
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The Kloof is going to end today.
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Okay, let's go.
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Go ahead, Hans.
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Let's start with something very important.
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Something that most learners never learn from the language.
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Tell.
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native speakers begin the indirect red with no idea he said that or she said that not really?
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think about it when you have last a native speaker say he said
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that he was moe actually not it is always blijkbaar was he moe of I heard that he didn't feel good
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precisely native speakers use inleidende outdruck Kleine words and words that the indirect reason naturally, fluid and menselijk let sound like.
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And the first, Blijkbaar.
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You can say, Blijkbaar, Or,
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Blijkbaar, Blijkbaar, I report what I've heard.
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I'm not 100% sure, but this is what I understand.
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And it's so natural than...
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He said that the conversation was released.
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Informeler, menselijker, echter. And then...
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I've heard that...
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You can say...
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I've heard that she got a promotion. Or...
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I've heard that she's going to trust. Or even...
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I've heard that the project has been released.
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I have heard that, less than blight.
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You have heard it, but maybe from someone else, maybe via via.
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Via via, Hans?
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What does that mean?
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Via via means not straight, not from the bron itself.
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You have heard it from someone who had heard it from someone else.
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I have heard it via via.
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It is going to be more than people, not directly to me.
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I heard that Lisa was going to be home, but that was via via information.
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Someone told me it who told me it from someone else.
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And then, it goes to...
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You can say, it goes to that they will take people.
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Or, it goes to that the boss will go.
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It goes to.. very informative, very conversation.
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Like, this is what the people say, this is what they say.
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This is what they say.
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But not per se on the way.
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And You can say There is a new house in Rotterdam.
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Or There is a new house that It's a new house that...
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It's a dramatic.
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You don't know if it's true, but you've heard it.
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A geruch is information that goes around with people, but no one is sure of it is true.
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It spreads, it grows, and sometimes it is completely wrong.
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It goes around, people talk about it, but no one knows it.
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And then, it bleek that...
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You can say, it bleek that she had already known.
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Or, it bleek that the geruch was.
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Or even, it was a very clear tone.
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It has a very strange tone, as if you say, oh, so it was really.
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It was very strange.
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Very natural, very simple in telling stories.
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You hear this in the way.
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Now, more informative reportage-outtruck.
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The outtruck that you let sound like a real conversation.
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They said that...
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You can say...
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They said that they were looking for a new job.
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They said it, but not as a subject.
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Terlops, in the way.
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Noem.
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A very important word.
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It means to say something.
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Not the point, just let it fall on a natural way.
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Or, he said it, but not the point.
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And, he told me that...
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You can say, he told me that the company is on the way.
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Or, he told me that they were already a while.
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He told me that...
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He told me that...
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He gives the feeling of, we were midden in a meeting and this came naturally to speak.
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Inlevend and then, he told me, because of the time he gives life to the meeting.
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Inlevend, Hans?
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Inlevend means that you are completely involved in the experience.
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A real inlevend story allows you to feel that you were there.
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He was me from everything to tell.
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You feel it as if you are there.
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You are listening to the whole meeting.
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Heel levendig, heel natuurlijk.
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En...
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Zij bracht ter sprake dat...
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Je kunt zeggen...
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Ze bracht ter sprake dat het project achterliep op schema.
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Ze introduceren dit onderwerp.
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Ze bracht het in.
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Ter sprake brengen.
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Een onderwerp in het gesprek introduceren.
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Begin erover te praten. Of...
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Hij bracht ter sprake dat ze eerder hadden samengewerkt.
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Hij noemde het.
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Introduceerde het.
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En?
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Oh, that's so cool!
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Per ongeluk laten vallen.
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Per ongeluk laten vallen betekent iets per ongeluk onthullen.
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Je zei iets wat je niet had mogen zeggen.
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Het kwam er gewoon uit, zonder dat je het had gepland.
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Je kunt zeggen, ze liet per ongeluk vallen dat ze de film al had gezien.
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Ze had het niet mogen zeggen, maar het glipte er toch uit.
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Of We have this all done well.
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I'm sure.
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Minstens one time.
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Per ongeluk let fall.
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Altijd on.
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Altijd on.
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Altijd iets onthullen wat niet de bedoeling was.
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Nu, rapporteren met onzekerheid.
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When you are not sure about the exact words, but still want to tell you what you remember.
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It happens in echte conversations.
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You can say,
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I believe that she said...
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You can say... Or even...
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I believe that he said something about a delay.
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Not sure, but this is what I remember.
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You can say...
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He said something like...
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I need more time.
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Not the exact words, but the exact words.
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So, something like that is very natural, very clear.
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You say, I remember the exact words not, but the meaning was something like this.
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Or, they said something like, that's my problem not anymore.
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And, I can't forget, but I believe that he said...
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You can say, I can't forget, but I believe that he said that the deadline was schoon.
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Very clear, very clear, open for correctness. Or even...
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I forget, but I believe that they have something to say about it.
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The uncertainty is very important.
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Because in echte conversations you don't always remember the exact words.
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Native speakers use these for durend.
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To be honest, to be honest, to be honest, to be honest, to be honest, to be honest.
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Very natural, very human.
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Now, report with strong reactions.
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When the information is very, dramatic or interesting.
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You can say, you can't believe what he told me.
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Or even, you will never believe what he told me. And?
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And this is the most part.
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You can say, and this is the most part.
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That she knew it all the time.
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Or, and here comes the best part.
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Blinkly knew she knew it all the time.
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She said, you can say, she said, she said really that she stopped.
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Really, that's a surprise.
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I can't believe that she said that.
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Or, she told me really that she said this months ago.
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You can say, Or,
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Very natural in the story,
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It's a story step for step.
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The story of the story, Melanie?
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The story of the story, that means a story telling.
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The way it is told, the story of the events, and how they are connected and presented.
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The story of the film was very sad.
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It's the story, the way it is told.
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And in a conversation, he continued to say, your story is natural and in the movement.
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And now, the important part.
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How do you use this in a real, flowing story?
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In real life is indirect reason not a single word.
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It makes a bigger story.
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A story has a beginning, a middle, a end.
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And these verbindings of words, they hold the whole story together.
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So, what happened was...
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You can say, Kortom, what happened was that Sander me told and said that Lisa blijkbaar a job in the world had a given.
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Kortom, he gave an, I'm going to explain the whole situation from the beginning.
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And that was the moment that he told me.
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You can say, and that was the moment that she told me that she had decided to have a decision.
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A specific moment in the story. That point.
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That exact moment.
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Of, and that was the moment that they told me everything.
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You can say, You can say,
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Or, You can say, You can say,
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And then she turned around and said... Or... Or... Or...
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Zich omdraaien en zeggen, not letterlijk omdraaien, but that is the moment when she spoke, that is the moment when everything changed.
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Heel natural, cinematisch, very boeiend.
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Cinematisch Melanie?
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Cinematisch means as a film, living, visueel, a strong image to create a strong image in the mind of the watcher.
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They turned around and said, cinematically, you can see it, you feel it, you are yourself.
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One completely natural conversation with all natural indirect reasons, like real people really talk.
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Two friends, on the morning, on the morning, on a weekend.
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Hans, you never believe what I have heard this weekend.
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Tell me everything.
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What happened was that I was on Saturday night at the market in the pipe.
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And blijkbaar got a job in Lissabon.
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Really?
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Really?
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I know it.
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And she was on the way to say that she had said yes to the company. So she accepted it?
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Blijkbaar.
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It goes to the end of the next month.
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That I really don't know.
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She said something about why?
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She said that she felt here a while.
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And then she continued to say that this was the right moment.
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That's what I actually mean.
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I heard that she had it last time a little bit.
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And this is the beautiful part.
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It was clear that Sander it all the time knew.
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He's also for a long time?
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Yeah, he was telling me that she had been a few years ago in trust.
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As I remember it, he said something like this was already planned since January. Since January.
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And nobody knew it?
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Nobody.
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Blinkly began it all when she went to a conference in Lissabon and completely lost in the city.
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That's actually very nice.
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Good for her.
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That I also thought.
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She said, and I found this so sweet, that she's the friends that she has here built never forgets.
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That's really beautiful.
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And have you all the natural, indirect, re-outtruck?
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14 natural sentences.
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1 magochtend-gesprek.
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And not one time, she said she was, or he told me that he had.
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Just, just, fluently, just.
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Because so, we're talking native speakers.
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Geen grammatica-regels, geen structuur.
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Just tell them on a natural way with the right words.
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Before we close, I will even say something.
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Say it.
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In our first episode of indirect reasons, we gave you the rules, the structure, the basis.
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And today gave we you the life, the color, the nature of the way.
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Because the rules of knowing is the beginning.
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But naturally to the end is the goal.
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And now you have all of them.
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The next time someone tells you something interesting, you say not, she said she was.
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You say, blijkbaar, it's a geruch, you don't believe what they told me.
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As a native speaker, because that's exactly what you are saying, you have one episode of the same.
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As the episode of today the indirect reason of course, give a like on this video.
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Abonneer you to Melanie Talk, every day a new episode.
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I do this with one friend who knows the rules, but still doesn't sound like it.
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And let a reaction.
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Use a introduction of today.
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Report something that someone told you.
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Or tell us, what is the most surprising thing that someone told you?
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We'll read every reaction, everyone.
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Thank you for your learning.
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See you in the next episode.
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Bye!
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Bye!
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Bye!
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Bye!
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Bye!
About This Lesson
Welcome to today's lesson, where you'll learn to enhance your English speaking skills through the use of reported speech. Based on real conversations, this lesson will help you practice how native speakers naturally communicate their thoughts and experiences. By focusing on informal and conversational reported speech, you will gain insights that are often overlooked in traditional language learning. This practical approach will support your IELTS speaking practice and improve your overall fluency. Let's dive into the nuances of reported speech and discover how effective it can be in daily dialogues.
Key Vocabulary & Phrases
- Blijkbaar - Apparently; used to express uncertainty about what has been said.
- He said that - A common introductory phrase in reported speech, though native speakers often use alternatives.
- It seems - A phrase indicating that the speaker is sharing information based on perception rather than certainty.
- By the way - A way to introduce additional information without making it sound formal.
- I heard that - A casual way to report what someone else mentioned.
- Actually - A word used to add emphasis to information being shared.
- Apparently - Similar to 'blijkbaar', indicating something that is heard but not fully confirmed.
- For some time - A phrase indicating that something has been happening for a duration, adding context to the reported speech.
Practice Tips
To effectively use reported speech as demonstrated in the video, try incorporating shadow speech techniques in your practice. Here are some tips to get you started:
- Use a shadowing app to listen to the conversation at a slower speed, allowing you to catch nuances and pauses in reported speech.
- Repeat after the native speakers, focusing on their intonation and natural flow. This will help you practice how to express uncertainties and casual opinions in conversation.
- Record yourself while using shadow speak techniques. This enables you to compare your speech patterns with those of the native speakers and identify areas for improvement.
- Mix and match phrases from the key vocabulary list when practicing; try to use them in sentences that relate to your everyday life.
- Find a conversation partner to practice casual dialogue, and encourage each other to use reported speech expressions creatively.
Remember, mastering reported speech not only enhances your conversational skills but also prepares you for various speaking scenarios, including IELTS speaking practice. Embrace the process, and soon you’ll find yourself communicating more like a native speaker!
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.