Shadowing Practice: Wintertijd - Zondag met Lubach (S09) - Learn English Speaking with Video
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And then, in the wintertime was the wintertime.
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Let's take a look at the pictures.
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Wow.
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That's a nice phenomenon.
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And it happens a lot.
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Every year, you can put your clock back up.
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But that's going to change.
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Because Europe is there completely ready for it.
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The turning between winter and summer time must stop.
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The Commission will that and will ask the Netherlands to choose.
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Of permanent winter time, of permanent summer time.
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The Commission will start off from the clock.
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The time will change, because the time will not change.
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All EU -lidstaten need to choose for themselves.
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And the Netherlands also.
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Our cabinet should always choose winter time, or always summer time.
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It doesn't look like a one hour difference, but it's about the question of what time we want to live.
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How late can we in juni still be out?
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Is it still dark when our kids are going to school in february?
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And what are our little children from jazz?
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We need to choose!
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And that's still a lot, because the meningen are pretty good.
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Sterker nog, according to RTLZ is the Netherlands to the bottom of the bottom.
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bottom of the bottom of the bottom of the bottom of the bottom of As you see,
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it's quarter past nine.
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You can see from this clock, and I, like, ooh, citizens,
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Italian citizens, would want an assembly as important in the European Parliament here to talk about the five million Italian poor,
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and the four million Italian unemployed.
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Thank you!
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The baas of the European Commission Jean -Claude Juncker has a clear view.
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He wants permanent summer time.
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I understand that in his case, because then you can drink an hour and a half a while.
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He is alcoholist.
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But he has another argument.
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Yeah, that's like Brussels.
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The people want it, so they do it.
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But how does Juncker know what the people want?
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It began all in Finland.
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There was in 2017 a petition held against the clock.
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And then I thought...
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Boeie!
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It's Finland.
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What does it make sense if it's at the beginning of at the end of the morning 23.
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Joakinen!
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I'm worried about my co -op.
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I'm going to go to the sauna.
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I don't know when that is.
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But after that, the European Commission had a inquiry to the European Union with the question about the summer or winter.
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And it came out that 56 % wanted the summer time.
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And Juncker thought, it was a good result, we can't do that.
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But what do we think here in the Netherlands?
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Maurice would not be the hound if he didn't have peiled that.
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44 % wanted the summer time, 38 % wanted the winter time, and the rest was a hour late for the enquête.
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And if this goes through with peiling, we will get in the Netherlands a permanent summer time.
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But that would be very dumb.
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I'm going to explain why.
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But let's first look at the people.
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Why do they want permanent summer time?
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If the winter time is finished, we only have the summer time.
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What does that mean?
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I don't even know.
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I don't know.
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I don't know.
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For me is that good.
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I can do what I want.
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I can go out and go and so, then I don't have to do winter clothes and so on.
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Okay.
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Some people don't understand the summer time.
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It doesn't matter.
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The problem is that people associate the summer time with the summer and winter time with the winter.
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And if you hold a popular competition between the winter and the summer, who winter?
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The summer.
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If you ask, will you wintertime or wintertime, then they will hear the people actually say, hey, do you want to ride on the bike, or cocktail, zwembad, sex, feest, summertime?
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No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no before they make their choice.
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The responsible members had not seen a chance...
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...that they had a choice between the summer - and wintertime.
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The Forum for Democratie has already chosen for the summer time.
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We are happy people, says a word.
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Okay.
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Some people don't understand the summer time.
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It's not.
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It's really nice that these comrades are together...
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...to make up for the summer time...
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...but if we, the people, have something to say.. is it important that we know something about it.
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And also know why permanent summer time is a dumb idea.
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So we first need to zoom out.
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I'm going to go ahead with my telescope.
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Look, this is the earth, and the earth is around.
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And here is the sun.
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So, it comes here.
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And on this side of the earth is it day.
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And on the other side is it night.
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And the earth is spinning, and on this side you see that it's day.
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Look, now the Spaniards are going to wake up.
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WAKKER WORDEN SPANJAAR!
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Can anyone the Spanjaard even wakker make?
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WAKKER?
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Ok.
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En straks moet New York wakker worden, et cetera.
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Zo 'n rondje duurt...
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DESPETARSE ESPAÑOLES!
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Luie klootzak...
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Nou, ok.
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Pardon.
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Zo 'n rondje duurt 24 uur.
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En daar hebben we ongelooflijke massel mee, want dat is precies een dag.
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We kunnen de aarde dus opdelen in 24 tijdzones van een uur.
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Vroeger was dat anders.
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Elk land had elke stad had zijn eigen tijd.
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Je keek gewoon naar de zon en als die op zijn hoogste punt stond, was het 12 uur.
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In Zwolle was het daardoor bijvoorbeeld 5 minuten later dan in Amsterdam.
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En dat werd onhandig toen we treinen kregen, want dan kwam je op de terugweg 5 minuten vertraging tekort.
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Heel ingewikkeld, maar goed.
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Nu hebben we dus 24 tijdzones.
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En in het midden van elk vakje staat de zon om 12 uur op zijn hoogst.
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And that's a very logical system, but it has an advantage.
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Because look, the lines go towards the countries.
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So a piece of Germany has a different time than the rest of Germany.
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Sterker nog, a piece of Dortmund has a different time than the rest of Dortmund.
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Sterker nog, a piece of this place in Dortmund has a different time than the rest of the place in Dortmund.
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And, yes, it would be handy, because you can pay for an hour, so you put your car in here, and then you put your car in here, and then you put your car in here,
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and then you put your car in here, and then you put your car in here, and then you put your car in here, and then you put your car in here, and then you put your car in here, and then you put your car in here, and then you put your car in here, and then you put your car in here, and then you put your car in here, and then you put your car in here, and then you put your car in here, and then you put your car in here, and then you put your car in here, and then you put your car in here, and then you put your car in here,
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and then you put your car in here, and then you put your car in here, and then you put your car in here, and then you put your car in here,
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and then you put your car in here, Frankrijk, Spanje, Polen.
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Team Beige, that's why.
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And England is in the green zone, that's where it's a bit earlier.
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And Ukraine, Romania, Griekenland, here all in red, here is it a bit later.
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It's super nice here with Germany, but if you look at the white lines.. we should actually be in the time zone of England.
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Because we are so mixed in, there is something crazy.
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Because if it's about 12 hours, the sun is here at its highest point.
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In the time zone, in Berlin, in Poland.
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And 40 minutes later, it's about us at its highest point.
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And then you think, okay, this is a compromise, we'd like to hear from Germany.
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But this is then the wintertime.
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That's our normal time.
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But in the summer, we have the summer time.
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And then we set our clock again a hour forward.
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And as we then look at 12 hours, then the sun is here at its highest point.
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In Sint -Petersburg and Istanbul.
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And then a hour and 40 minutes later, it's at its highest point.
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One hour because of the summer time, plus 40 minutes, because we are divided in the middle.
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And now that's all in the summer.
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And then we have the summer time.
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But then the days are still pretty long.
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So it doesn't matter.
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But when it's at Juncker and Baudet, we're going to do that in the winter.
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And then it's not so funny.
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Especially in the ochtend.
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If we go into the winter, in Amsterdam, the sun comes about 10 for 10 in the middle of the winter.
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That's very late.
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10 for 10?
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In my home is that already a cup of soup time.
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Then I start my bureau again a little bit off.
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Then I read the report in the train and then I'll see you tomorrow.
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And then it's so light.
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That it's later light in the morning is quite irritating but it's also unhealthy.
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As we permanently hold on, we sleep better.
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Slechtere sleep means less to learn and to learn more.
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It's a faster risk of problems, such as auto -ongeluk.
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And on a long term, it's a higher risk of heart - and vaat diseases, stemmingstoornissen, slechtere hersensiektes, and even overgewicht - and suikerziekten.
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Forced against your biological clock.
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It makes people not only chagrin, but also dik.
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Oh!
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So everyone is in the kitchen in the morning always so dik.
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And because the wintertime is our normal time, fuck that cloy with your biologian clock.
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And that really, this is a nurse.
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It's so, that the biologian clock has an own rhythm of 24 hours and a few minutes.
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And to be compared to the social rhythm of exactly 24 hours...
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Is that zonlicht elke ochtend needed?
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Yeah, your biological clock depends on the basis of the zonlicht.
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But you can also put the pen on that button, 12 seconds...
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12 seconds in and then you reset.
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That's all very hard.
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The last time we had permanent permanent time in the Netherlands was from 1940 to 1942.
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And that was a terrifying time, because it was in the winter when it was about 10 hours light. And now...
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Why do the Germans do that again? Because...
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Yeah.
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Because in the enquête where Juncker is in Europe, where it would be supposed to appear that people would like permanent summer time, why is the enquête actually involved?
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By the people in Europe?
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No, because if you look good, two -thirds of all the members come from Germany!
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And also the Dutch government will like permanent summer time.
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This is Peter Altmaier, the Dutch minister of economy.
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If the proposal of Jean -Claude Juncker sets itself through, and I strongly support that, then we don't need any time set,
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because we have the summer time very long.
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The only question that you can ask is why we didn't have that before.
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Yeah, that is you all well earlier in. In 1940.
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Over the fall.
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But Germany would like permanent summer time.
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But for us would that really not be good.
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We are far from our natural time, and that's just on -air.
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So, we need to do it for ourselves.
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What do the regerings are?
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In the summer - or in the wintertime.
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In any case, you don't have to do anything else than your borderline.
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It's important that you don't have to do it with Duitsersland when it's a while later or later.
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Klaas Dijkhoff, you're going to win the war also not.
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At the end, not as you are for the Netherlands.
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Beste Klaasie, Klaasie Capitulatie, listen, listen.
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If we do what our Osterburen do, and each country does that, then the whole world is the same time.
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And then it's for always 28 October.
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Then it's from now every day Eros Ramazotti.
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But if it's a permanent summer - or wintertime, that's at the end of the cabinet.
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What are they going to do?
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Are they going to do a little bit?
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Minister of Binnenlandse Zaken Kajsa Ollongren came this year after that the time is in her portefeuille.
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Look, I have a 20 -moment.
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I have another moment.
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I see another moment.
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I think I have the time in my portefeuille.
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And also Premier Rutte asked what we are going to do in the Netherlands.
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Mr. Rutte, what's going to be?
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The summer or the winter?
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We'll talk about it.
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We've said that as Benelux, we want to have a formal position.
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And we're going to try to do that with the French, the Dutch and the Italian.
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They don't know that yet.
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The Italian come forlopig not after what their talk is in the house.
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True story.
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I'm going to trust Ariana Grande.
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That's overigens she doesn't know.
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I have a lot of fun in it.
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Okay.
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Rutte, I know that you want to talk about it, but we can choose as a country as a country.
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And I don't think we can do it for the Germans in the duisternis.
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Look, our biologists want to hear from England.
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So it's a compromise that we do with Germany.
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But we don't need to take the summer time, because we're at Sint -Petersburg -tide.
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I've always learned that you first have to keep yourself and first have to keep others.
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And then you can keep the Germans.
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That's what I've learned.
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So I've learned to choose for a permanent wintertime.
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Also known as normal time.
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Everything is in the winter just like it is.
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And the wintertime is still too long, so we can't do that.
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It's not different.
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We need to remove the clock from the set of the clock.
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And so, from the summer time.
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And, for the pain, it's here.
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It's the most beautiful number over the time.
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It was the time of Corrie Conin!
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Oh, it was the time To make me lief zijn samenvallen
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This was Zondag met Lubach.
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Thank you for watching.
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Have fun with your week and until the next Sunday. To see more?
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Go to npo3 .nl slash Zondag met Lubach.
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Learning English with videos like this one keeps practice fun and relevant. Whether you’re using a shadowing app or just repeating lines, focus on the phrases that feel most useful—you’ll be using them in real conversations before you know it!
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result | If you ask, will you |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | have peiled · has already chosen · We've said |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | is finished · are divided · be compared |
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.