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Hey English learners!
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Welcome to this A1 English listening practice video.
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I hope you're doing well.
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Today we're gonna talk about a boring topic which is boredom.
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Let's talk about being bored.
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This is not something that people like.
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For many people this is a terrible feeling especially for kids.
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I remember when I was a kid when I felt bored it was awful.
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I complained, I whined, right?
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Or you complain in that voice that kids make when they're not happy.
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I would tell my parents, that I was bored, that I wasn't happy.
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People don't like being bored of course.
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A lot of people hate this feeling and I think
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that nowadays kids don't really have many opportunities to be bored like when I was a kid.
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Because nowadays kids have so many different things, different forms of entertainment.
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They have phones and screens and they can always watch something if they feel bored.
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I didn't have that when I was a kid.
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Sometimes I was just in my room, bored, with nothing to do and I can remember that feeling very well.
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Today I think that kids always have something to do.
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They can always find something to entertain them, right?
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So it's a little different nowadays.
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As an adult, when you're an adult, you don't really have as much time to be bored, right?
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We have many things to do, many responsibilities.
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There are always things that I need to do, places I need to go, people I need to help.
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If you have a family, if you have kids, of course you spend time with them, you help them, you do things for them.
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So as an adult, you don't really have as much time to be bored.
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And honestly, being bored is not always a bad thing.
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Okay?
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I know we don't like being bored, but boredom is actually an important thing.
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For example, it's important to have some time where you're not doing anything and you don't have stimulation,
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things that are making your brain and your eyes work, sometimes it's important to just do nothing.
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This is like rest for your brain.
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It's important for your brain to rest and not always be doing something, right?
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So boredom can be important for that reason.
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You don't want to always be bored,
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but sometimes being bored and doing nothing can give you and give your brain the rest that it needs, right?
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Being bored can also be a good thing because it gives us
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time to think and to organize our thoughts and to come up with ideas, to think of new ideas.
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Sometimes when you just turn
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everything off, all the screens and entertainment,
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and you just stay alone with your thoughts in some room or outside or something, you think differently.
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You can think more clearly and have different thoughts.
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Sometimes you might think of things when you're bored that you didn't think of when you were watching something, for example.
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So boredom can be good to help you think better, think differently.
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It also can motivate you to be productive.
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If you are bored for a long time, maybe you want to start working and doing something that is productive.
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It motivates you to be productive, right?
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That's another good thing.
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And also boredom teaches you to be patient.
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This is especially good for kids.
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Kids need to learn to sit down for a while and not have a game or a screen or something.
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My kids, for example, are learning to sit down the whole time when we're at church, for example.
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So my son is getting better at sitting on his seat for the whole time that we're there.
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And at the beginning, it wasn't easy because he got bored,
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he wanted to do things and go places, but that boredom and sitting there, it was like training.
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He trained to be able to be patient and sit down in the same seat for one hour.
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That is a skill that we need.
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Kids need to develop patience.
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So if they have some boring parts of their day, it teaches them to just be patient and wait for the next thing.
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So that is a good thing as well.
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So even though I don't have a lot of time to be bored, I still get bored of certain things.
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Sometimes I get bored of certain languages that I'm learning and then
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I stop and I learn a different language and then maybe in the future I return to that first language and then it's fun again.
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Sometimes if something is boring for us, we can just switch, we can change to something else and then come back to it.
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So boredom can come and you can use it to also try new things.
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It motivates you to try new things and then go back to the old things.
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Maybe you're getting bored of English right now.
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Maybe you just need to try something different with your English.
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Maybe if you have been watching movies in English and you're bored of that,
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maybe you can start listening to music in English or listening to podcasts in English.
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If you change to a different activity, then you might not be bored anymore.
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So, just a piece of advice.
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Boredom is a normal part of everyday life.
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Boredom is a normal thing we experience.
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It can be hard, it can be frustrating, but boredom can be a good thing and it can help us in some ways.
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And if you're feeling bored if you have something that is boring for you now.
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Maybe you can change things a little and then in the future you can come back to that thing and it won't be boring.
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So I just talked for like 10 minutes about boredom, about being bored.
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This is a boring topic but I try to talk about everything so you get experience listening to me talking about different topics.
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Hopefully the next topic will be a funner one than this one but I know that this was good practice for your listening.
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Okay?
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Thank you all for watching this video and I'll talk to you in the next one.
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  • „I remember when I was a kid“: Diese Struktur zeigt den Gebrauch von Vergangenheitsformen, die für das Erzählen von persönlichen Geschichten nützlich sind.
  • „People don’t like being bored“: Hier wird ein typischer englischer Ausdruck verwendet, um allgemeine Wahrheiten zu formulieren, was für das Sprechen im Alltag wichtig ist.
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Gemeinsame Aussprachefallen

Einige Wörter und Wendungen aus dem Video können für Deutschsprechende knifflig sein. Achten Sie besonders auf die Aussprache von:

  • Bored: Achten Sie auf den langen "o"-Laut, der oft verwechselt wird.
  • Productive: Die Betonung liegt auf der zweiten Silbe, was häufig überhört wird.
  • Opportunity: Stellen Sie sicher, dass Sie die reduzierten Vokale in schnellen Sätzen erkennen und üben.

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