Shadowing-Übung: Boston University Commencement 2018: Student Speaker Yasmin Younis - Englisch Sprechen Lernen mit Video

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I now present Ms. Yasmin Younis, a senior who will receive her bachelor degree from the College of Communication, who will speak on behalf of the class of 2018.
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Ms. Younis.
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Thank you President Brown.
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It is an honor to be here today, especially speaking alongside civil rights icon John Lewis.
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Mr. Lewis, you are the man.
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Hello! Ahlan wa Sahlan!
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Welcome all.
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Faculty, friends, family, and the class of 2018.
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And to my Muslim brothers and sisters: Ramadan Kareem.
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My name is Yasmin Liwa Younis.
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I say my name loud and proud from Baghdad where my parents were born, to Ballis Road, the Midwest street I grew up on, to Boston University, among the class of 2018, on Nickerson Field.
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When picking colleges, I knew I wanted to be at an urban institution that offered opportunities unimaginable elsewhere.
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However, I didn't realize I chose the school which provided me the greatest lesson of all, and so did you: learning to unapologetically be you.
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Before attending BU, I would have introduced myself as "Yasmin I have no middle name Younis".
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I made my name more easily digestible because I was uncomfortable in my own skin, unsure of who I was, who I was meant to be, and who I would become.
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When I decided to attend BU, it was right after I read about BU alum Uzo Aduba's name reclamation story.
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She inspired me to make a rule that once I was at BU, I would no longer refer to myself as "Yazmin", but as "Yasmin", because as her mother said, "if someone could say 'Tchaikovsky', they sure as hell could say 'Yasmin'." Being in a diverse environment like BU, I knew that this was my one shot to learn to accept myself and to become the Yasmin Lewa Younis my parents believed I could be.
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From as early as I could remember, I wanted to change my name.
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I hated it, almost as much as I hated being Iraqi.
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Almost as much as I hated my curly hair, dark eyes, and tan skin, but not as much as what I truly hated: myself.
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My struggle toward self-acceptance was a long, tumultuous journey beginning from the moment my parents emigrated to this country respectively.
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My parents left their homeland to pursue better lives for themselves, and for their future family.
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And to this day, my parents never returned to Iraq.
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But my parents instilled a piece of Iraq within both my brother and I.
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Through our names.
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What better way for me to be me than by reclaiming my name?
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My first name, Yasmin, is a flower in Arabic.
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My middle name, Lewa, is my father's name, a tradition in Iraqi culture.
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My last name, Younis, is the name of the prophet Younis, a beloved prophet in my religion, Islam.
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I always had a knack for writing, as it was my way to express myself.
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But at BU, I turned self-expression into self-sufficiency by transforming my creative outlet into an employable field of study.
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Although my journey was unique to me, BU threw so many opportunities to grow, resources to use, and questions to ask ourselves to uncover who we truly are.
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These opportunities gave us the skills to enter the workforce or graduate school.
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These resources gave us the knowledge to take the next step in our careers, and these questions allowed us to know who we are, and to push ourselves to be the best versions we can be.
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Like many of you, I'm unsure of where I'll be.
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But BU instilled a measurable confidence in me and us, the class of 2018, that I know we will succeed no matter where the beginning of our respective post-undergraduate chapters take us.
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I owe this newfound confidence in all of us to BU because of how BU gave it to us.
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Like everyone on this field, I really struggled here.
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However, there is so much beauty in this struggle, but more importantly, overcoming the struggle.
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Whether it be struggling to adjust to our first Bostonian winter during the record-breaking 2015 Boston blizzard, to miserably attempting to pass CHEM101, to our first college heartbreaks, to getting rejected from our top internship or job opportunity, and everything in between, our time at BU was not easy.
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But what good came from anything easy?
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Without the blizzard, we wouldn't have stories to tell about epic snowball fights with our friends on Comm Ave. or the Esplanade.
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Without hard or tough classes, we wouldn't have those late night Mugar adventures or crazy all-nighters to nostalgically look back on.
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Without our heartbreaks, we wouldn't have leaned on our support systems, helping us realize we don't need a partner to feel whole, so long as we have an incredible group of friends.
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Without getting rejections, we wouldn't have had opportunities like an unexpected summer abroad, or realizing what we thought was our dream job actually wasn't our dream all along.
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Each of these struggles has one common denominator: Us.
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Every struggle we overcame added to our story.
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It helped us figuratively reclaim our names like my struggles pushed me to literally reclaim mine.
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To the BU community, to our friends, and to our families: thank you for helping us become the Yasmin Lewa Younises our mamas and babas, umis and ubous, omas and ubas, and moms and dads believed we could be.
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To the class of 2018, let's reflect on our journey and how we've become the people we are at this very moment.
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But most importantly, I ask that you uncover what it is that led you to unapologetically be you.
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Embrace it, and never, ever let it go.
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And finally, black lives matter, and free Palestine.

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Das Szenario: Ein Hochschulabschlussrede mit Herz

Die Rede von Yasmin Younis auf dem Boston University Commencement 2018 ist mehr als nur eine Abschiedsrede – sie ist eine Geschichte über Selbstakzeptanz, kulturelle Identität und den Weg zu sich selbst. In ihrer emotionalen Erzählung kombiniert sie persönliche Anekdoten mit kraftvollen Botschaften, was sie zu einem idealen Material fürs Englisch lernen mit YouTube macht. Die Sprache ist authentisch, die Intonation variiert zwischen Nachdenklichkeit und Euphorie, und die Inhalte regen zum Nachdenken an – perfekt, um das Hören und Sprechen zu üben.

Nützliche Chunks & Collocations

  • Reclaim one's name – "seinen Namen zurückerobern": Yasmin verwendet diesen Ausdruck, um ihren Kampf um Selbstakzeptanz zu beschreiben. Beispiel: "What better way for me to be me than by reclaiming my name?"
  • Turn self-expression into self-sufficiency – "Selbstausdruck in Selbstversorgung verwandeln": Ein toller Satzbau, um zu beschreiben, wie Hobbies zu beruflichen Fähigkeiten werden.
  • Struggle toward self-acceptance – "Kampf um Selbstakzeptanz": Ein häufiger Ausdruck in persönlichen Geschichten.
  • Instill a piece of [culture] within someone – "ein Stück [Kultur] in jemanden einprägen": So beschreibt Yasmin, wie ihre Eltern iraqische Kultur in sie und ihren Bruder einbrachten.
  • Transform a creative outlet into an employable field – "einen kreativen Ausdruck in ein berufliches Feld verwandeln": Ideal für Gespräche über Studien- und Karrierewege.

Deine Shadowing-Challenge: "Shadowspeak" in Aktion

Für dieses Englisch Shadowing-Übung nimm dir 5–10 Minuten Zeit. Such dir einen Abschnitt der Rede aus (z. B. wo Yasmin über ihren Namen spricht) und wiederhole ihn direkt nach ihr – so schnell wie möglich, um Intonation und Rhythmus zu kopieren. Nutze die Pause-Funktion, um nicht zu scheitern. Ein guter shadowing site oder YouTube selbst (mit der "Wiederhole"-Funktion) hilft hier. Konzentriere dich darauf, die Betonung von Wörtern wie "Yasmin", "Lewa" und "Younis" genau zu wiedergeben – so lernst du nicht nur Sprache, sondern auch kulturelle Nuancen. Probier's jetzt: "My first name, Yasmin, is a flower in Arabic. My middle name, Lewa, is my father's name..." Mach's wie Yasmin: shadow speak mit Selbstvertrauen!

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.

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