Shadowing-Übung: American English Connected Reading | Complaining About the Road - Englisch Sprechen Lernen mit Video

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Hey, what's up?
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It's Alex.
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Today, let's talk about the connected sounds in the short text
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where you're complaining about the quality of the road in your town.
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Let's take a look.
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I live in a place where they care about bikes a lot.
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I live in a, live in a.
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So this i in in basically gets reduced, and the uh gets connected to in.
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I live in a place where they care about bikes.
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Care about bikes.
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That T in about turns into a glottal stop.
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Where they care about bikes a lot.
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That T in lot also turns into a glottal stop because it's the end of the sentence.
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I live in a place where they care about bikes a lot.
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The roads are wide and flat and they're paved smooth.
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The roads are wide and flat.
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So here the road sir, we don't write apostrophe re but we do take out
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that ah sound in our the roads are sir the roads are wide
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and flat now here wide and Flat if I say
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that really quickly you don't really hear any of the individual sounds in a Md
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and gets reduced to a single nasal release release n.
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Widen flat.
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Widen flat.
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Now if I slow down a little bit I'll say widen flat.
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Widen flat.
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Widen flat.
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Widen flat.
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So I have a little bit of a hint of that vowel but that D is definitely gone.
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Widen flat and they're paved smooth. And there.
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So now I'm starting a section of the sentence with and so I'll say the eh vowel there. And there.
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I won't say the D though.
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And they're paved smooth.
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That D in paved gets reduced quite a bit before the S.
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And they're paved smooth.
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Paved smooth.
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There's a lot of space on the side of the road.
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There's a lot of.
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There's a lot of space.
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So a lot of, you can just think of it as combining into a lot of.
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There's a lot of space.
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There's a lot of space on the side of the road. On the. On the.
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We connect the N and the TH. On the. On the.
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My tongue goes between my teeth when I say on the instead of behind the teeth, which is what we normally do for an N sound.
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On the side of the road.
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Side the. Of the.
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There's no v in of anymore.
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Side the.
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Side the road.
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Space on the side of the road to ride your bike.
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Road d-d-d.
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The word to gets reduced right here very, very much.
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Road to.
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Road to ride your bike.
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Now, ride your turns into ride j-er.
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The vowel in your changes.
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Ride j-er.
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And the consonant y-er turns into a j-er after this d.
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Ride your bike.
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There's a lot of space on the side of the road to ride your bike.
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The only thing I don't like.
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The only, yonly.
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I add a little yuh sound there.
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The only.
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The only thing I don't like.
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Don't, don't like.
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I have a glottal stop there for the T in don't.
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If I say it really quickly, I could say don't like.
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The only thing I don't like.
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Don't like.
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Don't like.
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And in that case, there's no glottal stop or T.
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It just goes don't like.
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However, if you say this a little slower, it sounds strange, because we're used to hearing no glottal stop, no T, only in very fast speech.
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So if you say don't like, don't like, and stretch it out and say it very slowly, it can sound a little bit strange.
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The only thing I don't like, or don't like, the only thing I don't like is how many rocks and nails.
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Rocks and nails.
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So here we take off the D in and and reduce that first vowel.
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Rocks and nails there are on the road.
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Rocks and nails there are on the road.
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Now here I'm stressing there are, there are.
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I don't, the only thing I don't like is how many rocks and nails there are, there are on the road.
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I can never connect this into there-er.
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I can in other types of sentences, but in this sentence pattern, the only thing I don't like is how many blah blah blah there are.
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The only thing I know is how many blah blah blah there are.
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In this situation, I can never connect there-er.
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The only thing I don't like is how many rocks and nails there are, there are, on the road.
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On the road.
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On the road.
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Seriously, it's crazy.
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There must be dozens of nails.
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There must be dozens of nails. Must be.
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There's no T there.
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Must be turns into must be.
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There must be dozens of nails along the roads.
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Dozens of nails.
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Now that of nails could be of nails or a nails.
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You could reduce it and take out that v sound.
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There must be dozens of nails along the roads I ride on.
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The roads I ride on.
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ZI.
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Connect I to roads.
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Along the roads I ride on.
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I've gotten two flat tires.
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I've gotten.
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Gotten.
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I've gotten.
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There's a glottal stop there.
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Gotten.
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It's not a T.
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It's not gotten.
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It's gotten.
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I've gotten two flat tires.
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Flat tires.
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The T in flat and the T in tires connects together.
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I've gotten two flat tires in two months riding here.
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Months is a difficult word for a lot of people to say.
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All you need to do is take out the TH.
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Months.
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Months.
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That's how we say it every day.
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Months.
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Two months riding here.
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If you ride fast, if ya. If ya.
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So here U turns into ya.
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If you ride fast, there's no way to see the nails.
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No way to, d, d.
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That too, when it's used as part of a verb, reduces down to d.
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There's no way to see the nails until it's too late.
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Late.
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We finally end with a glottal stop T.
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Late normally ends with a T, but at the end of the sentence, we turn it into a glottal stop.
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Too late.
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If you like this kind lesson, remember I've got even longer and even more detailed pronunciation lessons
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that break down all the different rules I've discovered in many years of research.
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These lessons are available at the links below and in the comments.
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I'll see you there.
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All right, now I'll read the whole thing slowly but still with all the natural connected speech rules.
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It sounds a little funny because these rules only ever happen in fast, natural speed speech, but you can still practice with the slower version.
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After that, I'll read it at a normal speed.
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There must be dozens of nails along the roads I ride on.
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I've gotten two flat tires in two months riding here.
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If you ride fast, there's no way to see the nails until it's too late.
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Alright, here we go with normal speed.
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I live in a place where they care about bikes a lot.
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The roads are wide and flat and they're paved smooth.
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There's a lot of space on the side of the road to ride your bike.
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The only thing I don't like is how many rocks and nails there are on the road.
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Seriously, it's crazy.
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There must be dozens of nails along the roads I ride on.
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I've gotten two flat tires in two months riding here.
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If you ride fast, there's no way to see the nails until it's too late.

Kontext & Hintergrund

In diesem Video spricht Alex über das Thema „verbundene Laute“ im amerikanischen Englisch, speziell in einem kurzen Text, der sich mit der Qualität der Straßen in einer Stadt beschäftigt. Der Sprecher erzählt von seinem Wohnort, in dem sehr auf Fahrräder geachtet wird. Dabei werden verschiedene Sprachmuster und Reduzierungen besprochen, die das Sprechen im amerikanischen Englisch prägen. Dieses Wissen ist besonders wichtig für Lernende, die ihre Aussprache und ihr Hörverständnis verbessern möchten.

Top 5 Phrasen für die tägliche Kommunikation

  • „Ich lebe in einem Ort, wo man sich viel um Fahrräder kümmert.“ – Diese Phrase zeigt, wie wir über Orte und deren Besonderheiten sprechen können.
  • „Die Straßen sind breit und flach.“ – Eine einfache Beschreibung, die fundamental für Alltagsgespräche ist.
  • „Es gibt viel Platz am Straßenrand.“ – Diese Phrase hilft, räumliche Gegebenheiten zu beschreiben.
  • „Die Straßen sind gut gepflastert.“ – Eine nützliche Formulierung, um die Qualität von Infrastruktur zu bewerten.
  • „Es gibt viel Raum zum Fahrradfahren.“ – Diese Aussage kann helfen, die Nutzung öffentlicher Räume zu erörtern.

Schritt-für-Schritt Shadowing-Anleitung

Um das Verständnis und die Aussprache von amerikanischem Englisch zu verbessern, können Lernende die Shadowspeak-Technik anwenden. Hier ist eine Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitung, um den Inhalt dieses spezifischen Videos erfolgreich nachzusprechen:

  1. Hören Sie aktiv zu: Hören Sie sich das Video mehrmals an, ohne sofort zu versuchen, die Worte nachzusprechen. Achten Sie auf die verbundenen Laute.
  2. Identifizieren Sie Schlüsselphrasen: Notieren Sie sich die oben genannten Top-Phrasen und analysieren Sie, wie sie im Kontext verwendet werden.
  3. Langsam nachsprechen: Wiederholen Sie die Sätze langsam, wobei Sie auf die Reduzierungen der Laute und Wörter achten. Beispielsweise wird das „a lot of“ oft zu „a lot of“ zusammengezogen.
  4. Schrittweise Geschwindigkeitssteigerung: Sobald Sie sich sicher fühlen, erhöhen Sie allmählich die Geschwindigkeit Ihres Nachsprechens, während Sie weiterhin auf die Aussprache achten.
  5. Wiederholen Sie regelmäßig: Setzen Sie täglichen Shadow-Speech-Übungen an, um Ihr Sprechen flüssiger und natürlicher zu gestalten. So wird das Shadowing zu einer effektiven Gewohnheit auf dieser shadowing site.

Durch das regelmäßige Üben dieser Methoden werden Sie Ihre Fähigkeit verbessern, verbundene Laute im amerikanischen Englisch zu erkennen und selbst zu verwenden. Probieren Sie es aus und beobachten Sie, wie sich Ihre Sprachfähigkeiten entwickeln!

Was ist die Shadowing-Technik?

Shadowing ist eine wissenschaftlich fundierte Sprachlerntechnik, die ursprünglich für die professionelle Dolmetscherausbildung entwickelt und durch den Polyglotten Dr. Alexander Arguelles populär gemacht wurde. Die Methode ist einfach aber wirkungsvoll: Du hörst englisches Audio von Muttersprachlern und wiederholst es sofort laut — wie ein Schatten, der dem Sprecher mit nur 1–2 Sekunden Verzögerung folgt. Anders als passives Hören oder Grammatikübungen zwingt Shadowing dein Gehirn und deine Mundmuskulatur, gleichzeitig echte Sprachmuster zu verarbeiten und zu reproduzieren. Studien zeigen, dass es Aussprachegenauigkeit, Intonation, Rhythmus, verbundene Sprache, Hörverständnis und Sprechflüssigkeit signifikant verbessert — was es zu einer der effektivsten Methoden für die IELTS Speaking-Vorbereitung und reale englische Kommunikation macht.