Shadowing-Übung: Chapter 1 - Englisch Sprechen Lernen mit Video

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Chapter 1 Friday Evening Meeting the Client Friday.
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It's the end of the working day.
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My friend Layla is in my office drinking coffee.
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She tells me a story about one of her clients.
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We laugh.
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Your clients are very difficult people, I say.
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Layla is a lawyer, but many of her clients are very poor people too.
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She does good work.
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And what about you? says Layla.
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You're a private investigator, and your clients are often very difficult and dangerous.
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Saeed worries about you.
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He likes you a lot, you know.
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What?
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Saeed is Layla's brother.
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He's a detective in the police.
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Detective Sergeant Saeed Patel.
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He and Layla are my best friends.
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Saeed worries about me a lot.
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I smile.
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Saeed doesn't need to worry about me, I say.
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I can take care of myself.
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I finish my coffee and stand up.
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Friday night, the best night of the week.
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What shall we do this evening?
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Go to the cinema?
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OK, but let's eat first.
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I'm really hungry, Leila says.
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Oh, and don't forget, next Friday you're coming to dinner at our house.
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Saeed's cooking chicken.
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Great, I say.
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Saeed's chicken dinner is famous with all his friends.
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Leila puts on her coat and at the door I turn off the lights.
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I begin to close the door and the phone rings.
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Oh, leave it, says Leila.
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It's Friday night.
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I go back into the office.
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I can't do that, I say.
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Perhaps it's a new client.
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It is.
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It's a man's voice, speaking quickly.
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I listen, say yes and no in the right places, and finish the call.
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Sorry, Leila, no cinema tonight.
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Another time, I say.
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The client wants me to meet him this evening.
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Oh, dear, Layla says.
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Can't he wait till tomorrow?
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He says not.
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He's a worried man, I think.
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We say goodbye and Leila leaves.
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The meeting is in a Greek restaurant not far from Piccadilly Circus.
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I take a bus and then walk.
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The Athena restaurant in Old Compton Street is small and noisy.
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The client is sitting at the back, at a table for two, watching the door.
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He stands up when I get near the table.
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A tall man, nice looking, brown hair, brown eyes, worried eyes, tired eyes.
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He's not sleeping at night.
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Hi, I say, Shirley Holmes.
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Jeff Clayton, he says.
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Thanks for coming.
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We sit down and a waiter brings us bread, olives, feta cheese, water for me and beer for Jeff Clayton.
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Clayton stares at me.
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You look very young for a private detective, he says.
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How can I help you, Mr Clayton?
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I say.
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What's your problem?
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I'm not here to talk about my age.
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OK.
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Sorry, he says.
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I have a business, an electrical design company, Clayton Electrics.
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We design...
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I take out a piece of paper and push it across the table to him.
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It's the front page from his company's website.
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He looks at it, then at me.
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Ah, he says.
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You googled me.
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You know all about my company.
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No, I say, but I know a little about electrical design now.
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So, your problem is a business problem then.
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I eat an olive and a piece of feta cheese.
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I love olives and feta, probably because of my Greek mother.
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Jeff Clayton tells me his problem.
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His business is losing money because he's not getting new clients.
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Every time he does a quotation for a new job, he doesn't get it.
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In six months, not one new contract, he says.
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Not one.
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My quotations are good.
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My designs are good.
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I'm not expensive.
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My prices are good.
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I have good workers.
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Six months ago, I had lots of new business.
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Everything was fine, and now nothing.
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Why?
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Who is getting these contracts then?
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I ask.
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Is it always the same company?
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He smiles a little.
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Yeah, you got it.
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I talked to some people, asked some questions.
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It's always the same company.
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Spark and Flash Design in Roehampton.
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Their design is nearly the same.
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Their prices are nearly the same, but just a little bit lower.
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So, they get the contract.
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How do you do a quotation?
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I ask.
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Tell me.
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I look at the client's building with one or two of my designers.
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My design staff then do the plans.
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It's all done on computer, of course.
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I do the costings for the work and then send the quotation to the client.
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Could you keep the quotations on the office computer?' I say.
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''What kind of security do you have?'' He tells me the name of the security programme on the office computer.
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I know it.
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It's a good one.
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''I keep all the quotations and costings in a special folder on the computer,'' he says.
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Nobody can open the folder without the password, and every file in the folder has a password too.
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How many people know the passwords?
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I ask.
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Only me.
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It sounds all right, but a good hacker can break through that security.
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I think you have a cyber thief on your staff, I say.
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Someone is getting through your security, taking the costing's information and selling it to this other company.
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Do you trust all your staff?
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He looks at me very unhappily.
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I did trust them once, he said.
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I don't now.
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What can I do?
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There's a very big contract coming soon.
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Blanding's house, near Putney Bridge.
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All new electrics in the building.
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A Chinese bank is going to open there.
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I'm doing the costings for the quotation now.
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It must be in by next Friday.
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I don't want to lose this one.
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I can't lose this one.
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He pushes his glass away and looks at me.
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Can you help me?
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Yes, I think I can.
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I eat some more olives and finish the cheese.
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I need to be in your office for a day or two.
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Talk to your staff.
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Is that OK with you?
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Sure, he says.
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Come and go when you like.
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I need to do some thinking tomorrow, I say.
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Can I phone you on Sunday with my plan, Mr Clayton?
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Sure, he says again.
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But please, call me Jeff.
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We're working together on this.
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Can I call you Shirley?
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No, you can't, I say.
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In your office, I'm going to be Sally Hawker, so you call me Sally, right?
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And you call me on this mobile number, not the one on my website.
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I give him my business card and show him the number on the back of the card.
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Shirley Holmes, private investigator.
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He looks at it, then at the front of the card, and laughs.
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Shirley Holmes!
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That's not your real name, is it?
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You changed it because you wanted your name to sound like Sherlock Holmes.
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Maybe, I say, or maybe my mother married a man called Holmes and they called me Shirley.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.

Wortschatz und Sprechhinweise zu dieser Lektion

Diese Wörter kommen am häufigsten vor: client, quotation, Clayton, design, Friday. Dieses Video enthält 163 Sätze und 1152 Wörter zum Nachsprechen. Der gesprochene Teil dauert 12:03. Der Sprecher spricht langsam, etwa 96 Wörter pro Minute, sodass genug Zeit bleibt, jeden Laut nachzuahmen. 82 % der Wörter gehören zu den 3.000 häufigsten im Englischen; den Rest solltest du dir vor dem Üben ansehen.

Wichtiger Wortschatz in diesem Video

Die 15 anspruchsvollsten Wörter aus dem Video, mit Aussprache und Bedeutung:

WortAusspracheBedeutung
quotation Substantiv/kwoʊˈteɪʃn̩/Angebot, Preisangebot
olive Substantiv/ˈɑ.lɪv/Olive
feta Substantiv/ˈfɛtə/Feta
folder Substantiv/ˈfoʊldɚ/Ordner, Mappe
password Substantiv/ˈpæs.wɜɹd/Codewort, Passwort
detective Substantiv/dɪˈtɛktɪv/Ermittler, Ermittlerin
investigator Substantiv/ɪnˈvɛs.tɪˌɡeɪ̯.təː/Ermittler, Ermittlerin
cinema Substantiv/ˈsɪn.ə.mə/Kino, Filmtheater
waiter Substantiv/ˈweɪ̯təː/Kellner, Kellnerin
noisy Adjektiv/ˈnɔɪzi/laut, geräuschvoll
thief Substantiv/ˈθiːf/Dieb, Diebin
stare Verb/stɛɚ/starren, anstarren
spark Substantiv/ˈspɑɹk/Funke
leaf Substantiv/lif/Blatt, Laubblatt
goodbye/ɡʊdˈbaɪ/auf Wiedersehen, auf Wiederschauen

Phrasal Verbs, die du hören wirst

WortBedeutung
stand up Verbaufstehen
break through VerbDurchbruch
sit down Verbsich setzen
take out Verbherausbringen, herausnehmen
turn off Verbausschalten, abschalten

Sätze zum Wiederholen

Kurze, vollständige Sätze aus dem Video, die du im Alltag wiederverwenden kannst:

  • Saeed doesn't need to worry about me, I say.
  • What shall we do this evening?
  • How do you do a quotation?
  • Do you trust all your staff?
  • That's not your real name, is it?

Grammatik in diesem Video

Die Strukturen, die der Sprecher am häufigsten verwendet, mit den genauen Worten aus dem Video:

StrukturIm Video
Present Continuous am/is/are + -ing – etwas, das gerade jetzt oder zurzeit passiertyou're coming · is sitting · is losing
Verpflichtung: must / have to / need to sagen, dass etwas notwendig istneed to worry · need to be · need to do
Zukunft mit „going to“ be going to + Verb – ein Plan oder etwas, das sich abzeichnetis going to open · I'm going to be

Aussprache, auf die du achten solltest

Der Sprecher verwendet 17 Kurzformen und abgeschwächte Formen, zum Beispiel I'm, can't, don't. Sprich sie in der kurzen Form, so wie du sie hörst.

  • Lange Wörter – auf die Betonung achten: investigator /ɪnˈvɛs.tɪˌɡeɪ̯.təː/, unhappily /ʌnˈhæpɪli/

Laute, die Deutschsprachigen schwerfallen:

  • /w/ — mit runden Lippen, nicht wie das deutsche „w“ (/v/): quotation /kwoʊˈteɪʃn̩/, password /ˈpæs.wɜɹd/, waiter /ˈweɪ̯təː/
  • Stimmhafter Auslaut — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ am Wortende nicht verhärten: olive /ˈɑ.lɪv/, password /ˈpæs.wɜɹd/, detective /dɪˈtɛktɪv/
  • /æ/ — offener als „ä“: password /ˈpæs.wɜɹd/, unhappily /ʌnˈhæpɪli/, hacker /hækəɹ/

So übst du mit diesem Video

  1. Höre dir das ganze Video einmal an, ohne zu sprechen, und notiere die Wörter, die du nicht kennst.
  2. Sprich Satz für Satz in normaler Geschwindigkeit nach und wiederhole jeden, bis dein Rhythmus zum Sprecher passt.
  3. Nimm dich auf und vergleiche mit dem Original; achte dabei auf Wörter wie quotation, olive, feta.

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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