Shadowing-Übung: American English Pronunciation: Couldn't, wouldn't, shouldn't - 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 look at a couple of common English sentences
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that people say all the time in daily life that use the words shouldn't, couldn't, and wouldn't.
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Let's take a look.
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You shouldn't be here.
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You shouldn't be here.
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So here, this T is going to want to disappear or turn into a glottal stop, depending on how fast I talk.
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So listen to this.
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You shouldn't be here.
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Shouldn't be here.
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At that speed, it's turning into a glottal stop.
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Shouldn't, it cuts off in my throat, be here.
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You shouldn't be here.
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But now, if I speak a little faster, it just goes away entirely.
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You shouldn't be here.
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Shouldn't be here.
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You shouldn't be here.
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Next, he shouldn't have said that.
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So here, shouldn't have said that.
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Again, at a lower speed, we go into a glottal stop.
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Shouldn't, cuts off in the throat, shouldn't have said that.
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When I speak a little faster though, something interesting happens.
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It disappears, the T disappears, and then the N goes over the H.
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The V disappears, and we're left with shouldn't.
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He shouldn't.
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He shouldn't have said that.
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Shouldn't.
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Shouldn't have said that.
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He shouldn't have said that.
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Also pay attention here at the end, the D and TH connect together into one sound.
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Not said that, but said that.
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And at the end of the sentence, we have a glottal stop at the end of that.
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He shouldn't have said that.
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He shouldn't have said that.
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Next, I couldn't see it.
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Again, we'll have the same rule.
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Glottal stop at the end of the sentence couldn't see it.
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I couldn't see it.
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And now we have the same rule here again too.
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Fast speech turns it into couldn't see it with no consonant at all,
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but slow speech turns it into a glottal stop at the end.
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Couldn't see it.
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I couldn't see it.
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I couldn't see it.
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Next, why wouldn't I?
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Why wouldn't I?
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So here, if I'm speaking clearly and carefully, I'll say, why wouldn't I?
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Wouldn't I?
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With a T there.
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The difference is that we have a vowel after the T.
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Why wouldn't I?
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But if I speak quickly, it disappears, and there's no glottal stop.
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Why wouldn't I?
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Why wouldn't I?
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Wouldn't I?
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The T completely disappears, and we connect N to I, just like in the phrase, when I.
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When I did that, why wouldn't I?
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Next, why wouldn't you?
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So here, why wouldn't you?
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You might have learned already that a T before a Y turns into a CH.
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Why wouldn't you?
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And that's true.
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I do say this quite a lot.
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Why wouldn't you?
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Why wouldn't you?
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Why wouldn't you?
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But I also hear people say, why wouldn't you?
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Wouldn't you?
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They put a glottal stop here, which follows the same rule, right?
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We have a T turning into a glottal stop before a consonant.
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So why wouldn't you?
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Why wouldn't you?
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But in this case, because we have this special rule with you, words ending in T before you turn into chu.
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So why wouldn't you?
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Why wouldn't you?
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And so you can choose any one of those options.
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Why wouldn't you?
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Why wouldn't you?
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Or why wouldn't you?
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Both sound great to me.
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Last, she couldn't help it.
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She couldn't help it.
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Now, here we had shouldn't have turns into shouldn't, but we're not going to reduce this H in help.
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We're going to keep this as a full sound, and we're not going to reduce it into nothing like we do with the verb have.
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Here, then, T just turns into the same glottal stop we know from the other ones.
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She couldn't help it.
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She couldn't help it.
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And we have the same glottal stop at the end here too.
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She couldn't help it.
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She couldn't help it.
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All right, one last time.
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You shouldn't be here.
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You shouldn't be here.
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He shouldn't have said that.
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He shouldn't have said that.
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I couldn't see it.
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I couldn't see it.
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Why wouldn't I?
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Why wouldn't I?
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Why wouldn't you?
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Why wouldn't you?
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She couldn't help it.
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She couldn't help it.
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Let me know what other phrases you want me to analyze in the next video, and I'll see you there.

Kontext & Hintergrund

In der heutigen Lektion konzentrieren wir uns auf die amerikanische Aussprache von häufig verwendeten Kontraktionen und Hilfsverben wie "shouldn't", "couldn't" und "wouldn't". Diese Wörter sind alltägliche Bestandteile der englischen Sprache und werden oft in der informellen Kommunikation verwendet. Der Sprecher, Alex, erklärt die Nuancen der Aussprache und gibt wertvolle Tipps, wie man sie im schnellen Sprachfluss korrekt anwendet. Das Verständnis dieser Feinheiten ist entscheidend für alle, die ihr Englisch lernen mit YouTube und ihre Sprechfähigkeiten verbessern möchten.

Top 5 Phrasen für die tägliche Kommunikation

  • You shouldn't be here. (Du solltest nicht hier sein.)
  • He shouldn't have said that. (Er hätte das nicht sagen sollen.)
  • I couldn't see it. (Ich konnte es nicht sehen.)
  • Why wouldn't I? (Warum sollte ich nicht?)
  • Shouldn't be here. (Sollte nicht hier sein.)

Schritt-für-Schritt Shadowspeak-Anleitung

Um die Herausforderungen beim Lernen dieser Ausdrücke zu meistern, empfehle ich die folgende Schritt-für-Schritt-Methode:
1. Hören: Schauen Sie sich das Video an und hören Sie genau hin, wie Alex die Phrasen ausspricht. Achten Sie besonders auf die verschiedenen Aussprachen in langsamer und schneller Rede.
2. Nachsprechen: Nutzen Sie die Technik des shadowspeak: Sprechen Sie mit, während Sie das Video abspielen. Versuchen Sie, jeden Ton und jede Silbe genau zu reproduzieren.
3. Wiederholen: Üben Sie die Phrasen mehrmals, um ein Gefühl für die richtige Rhythmik und Intonation zu entwickeln. Nutzen Sie die glottalen Stops, die Alex hervorhebt.
4. Aufnehmen: Nehmen Sie sich beim Nachsprechen auf und hören Sie sich Ihre Aufnahme an. Vergleichen Sie Ihre Aussprache mit der von Alex und notieren Sie sich Verbesserungsmöglichkeiten.
5. Besprechen: Üben Sie mit einem Sprachpartner oder in einer Gruppe, um Feedback zu erhalten. Diskutieren Sie die Bedeutung und Verwendung der Phrasen im Alltag.

Indem Sie diese Schritte regelmäßig auf einer shadowspeaks kompatiblen Plattform durchführen, können Sie Ihr Englisch lernen mit YouTube erheblich verbessern. Viel Erfolg beim Üben!

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