Shadowing-Übung: Are we too Materialistic? - Englisch Sprechen Lernen mit Video
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It doesn't seem to make sense to suggest that there might be such a thing as good materialism.
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After all, isn't materialism just plain bad, always?
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It can seem as if we're faced with a stark choice.
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Either you can be materialistic, and that means obsessed with money and possessions, shallow and selfish, or you can reject materialism,
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be good and focus on more important matters of the spirit.
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But in truth, most of us are, in our hearts, stuck somewhere between these two choices, which is pretty uncomfortable.
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We're still enmeshed in the desire to possess, but we're encouraged to feel rather bad about it.
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Yet, crucially, it's not actually materialism, the pure fact of buying things and getting excited by possessions, that's ever really the problem.
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We're failing to make a clear distinction between good and bad versions of materialism.
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Let's try to understand good materialism through a slightly unusual route – religion.
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Because we see them as focused exclusively on spiritual things, it can be surprising to note how much use religions have made of material things.
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They've spent a lot of time making and thinking about scrolls to hang in your house,
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shrines, temples, monasteries, artworks, clothes, ceremonies.
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However, they've cared about these things for one reason only
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because they've wanted material things to serve the highest and noblest purpose – the development of our souls.
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It's just that they've recognised that we are incarnate, sensory, bodily beings and that the way to get through to our souls has to be,
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at least in part, through our bodies rather than merely through the intellect.
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The importance of material things was for centuries at the core of Christianity
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which proposed that Jesus was both the highest spiritual being and a flesh and blood person.
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He was the spirit incarnate, holiness embodied.
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In the Catholic mass, great significance is accorded to the bread and the wine, which are believed to be transubstantiations of Christ,
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that is, material objects which simultaneously have a spiritual identity, just as Jesus himself combined the spiritual and the bodily while on earth.
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This can all sound like a very weird and arcane point, entirely removed from the local shopping mall.
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But exactly the same concept actually applies outside of religions.
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Many good material possessions can be said to involve a kind of transubstantiation, whereby they are both practical and physical,
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and also embody or allude to a positive personality or spirit.
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Take this watch by the designer Dieter Rams.
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To the outer eye, it's an ordinary timepiece, but at a psychological level, it's also a kind of transubstantiation.
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It tells the time, but it also hints at a more psychological or even spiritual side, with ideals of purity, simplicity and harmony floating around it.
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It tells us how long there is till lunch, but it's also trying to nudge us towards being a certain sort of person.
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Or take this chair.
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It, too, transubstantiates a set of important values straightforwardness, strength, honesty and elegance.
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By getting closer to the chair we stand to become a little more like it, which is an important piece of inner evolution.
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Material objects can therefore be said to play a positive psychological or spiritual role in our lives when higher,
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more positive ideals are materialized in them, and so when buying and using them daily gives us a chance to get closer to our better selves.
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When they're contained in physical things,
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valuable psychological qualities that are otherwise often intermittent in our thoughts and conduct can become more stable and resilient.
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This isn't to say that all consumerism just conveniently turns out to be great.
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It depends on what a given material object stands for.
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An object can transubstantiate the very worst sides of human nature, greed, callousness, the desire to triumph, as much as it can the best sides.
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So, we must be careful not to decry or celebrate all material consumption just like that.
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We have to ensure that the objects we invest in
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and tire ourselves and the planet by making are those that lend most encouragement to our higher, better natures.
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Wortschatz und Sprechhinweise zu dieser Lektion
Diese Sprechübung basiert auf dem Video „Are we too Materialistic?“. Diese Wörter kommen am häufigsten vor: material, materialism, spiritual, object, psychological. Dieses Video enthält 43 Sätze und 686 Wörter zum Nachsprechen. Der gesprochene Teil dauert 4:24. Der Sprecher spricht in natürlichem Tempo, etwa 156 Wörter pro Minute, ähnlich wie im Alltagsgespräch. Nur 80 % der Wörter gehören zu den 3.000 häufigsten im Englischen, der Wortschatz ist also anspruchsvoll.
Wichtiger Wortschatz in diesem Video
15 lernenswerte Wörter aus dem Video, mit Aussprache und Bedeutung:
| Wort | Aussprache | Bedeutung |
|---|---|---|
| spiritual Adjektiv | /ˈspɪɹɪt͡ʃuəl/ | geistig |
| psychological Adjektiv | /ˌsaɪ.kəˈlɑː.d͡ʒɪ.kl̩/ | psychologisch |
| possession Substantiv | /pəˈzɛʃn̩/ | Besessenheit |
| ideal Adjektiv | /aɪˈdi(ə)l/ | ideal, bestmöglich |
| bodily Adjektiv | /ˈbɑdɪli/ | körperlich, Körper- |
| practical Adjektiv | /ˈpɹæk.tɪ.kəl/ | praktisch |
| stable Substantiv | /ˈsteɪ.bəl/ | Stall, Pferdestall |
| encourage Verb | /ɪnˈkʌɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/ | ermutigen, ermuntern |
| temple Substantiv | /ˈtɛm.pl̩/ | Tempel |
| unusual Adjektiv | /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/ | ungewöhnlich, unüblich |
| plain Substantiv | /pleɪn/ | Ebene |
| ceremony Substantiv | /ˈsɛɹ.əˌmoʊ.ni/ | Zeremonie, feierliche Handlung |
| designer Substantiv | /dɪˈzaɪnɚ/ | Designer, Designerin |
| ordinary Adjektiv | /ˈɔɹdɪnɛɹi/ | gewöhnlich, normal |
| evolution Substantiv | /ˌiːvəˈluːʃ(ə)n/ | Evolution |
Grammatik in diesem Video
Die Strukturen, die der Sprecher am häufigsten verwendet, mit den genauen Worten aus dem Video:
| Struktur | Im Video |
|---|---|
| Present Perfect have/has + Partizip Perfekt – eine vergangene Handlung, die jetzt noch wichtig ist | have made · They've spent · they've cared |
| Passiv be + Partizip Perfekt – wichtig ist, was geschieht, nicht wer es tut | is accorded · can be said · be said |
| Relativsätze who / which + Satz – eine Zusatzinformation über eine Person oder Sache | choices, which is · wine, which are |
Aussprache, auf die du achten solltest
Der Sprecher verwendet 12 Kurzformen und abgeschwächte Formen, zum Beispiel they've, we're, isn't. Sprich sie in der kurzen Form, so wie du sie hörst.
- Die Laute „sh“ und „zh“: possession /pəˈzɛʃn̩/, unusual /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/, evolution /ˌiːvəˈluːʃ(ə)n/, consumption /kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/, flesh /flɛʃ/
- Lange Wörter – auf die Betonung achten: psychological /ˌsaɪ.kəˈlɑː.d͡ʒɪ.kl̩/, unusual /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/, ceremony /ˈsɛɹ.əˌmoʊ.ni/, ordinary /ˈɔɹdɪnɛɹi/, evolution /ˌiːvəˈluːʃ(ə)n/
Laute, die Deutschsprachigen schwerfallen:
- /w/ — mit runden Lippen, nicht wie das deutsche „w“ (/v/): artwork /ˈɑɹtˌwɝk/, whereby /wɛə(ɹ)ˈbaɪ/
- Stimmhafter Auslaut — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ am Wortende nicht verhärten: encourage /ɪnˈkʌɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/, involve /ɪnˈvɑlv/, depend /dɪˈpɛnd/, propose /pɹəˈpəʊz/, lend /ˈlɛnd/
- /æ/ — offener als „ä“: practical /ˈpɹæk.tɪ.kəl/, shallow /ˈʃæloʊ/, transubstantiation /tɹænz.səbˈstæn.ʃiˌeɪ.ʃən/
So übst du mit diesem Video
- Höre dir das ganze Video einmal an, ohne zu sprechen, und notiere die Wörter, die du nicht kennst.
- Beginne mit 0,75-facher Geschwindigkeit, sprich Satz für Satz nach und wechsle zur normalen Geschwindigkeit, sobald es leichtfällt.
- Nimm dich auf und vergleiche mit dem Original; achte dabei auf Wörter wie spiritual, psychological, possession.
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