Shadowing-Übung: Emma Watson: “Fame Made Me Forget Myself — Here’s Why I Walked Away” - Englisch Sprechen Lernen mit Video

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Did you have people in the industry or people that you could talk to that felt the same way?
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Did you have co-stars or friends?
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No. Wow.
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No, I don't know anyone else.
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I'll never say that I quit acting.
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I'll always be an actor.
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I'm still open to doing it again.
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But I certainly made a decision to take time to figure out, to not know, and to,
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you know, I had this whole disassembling the structure that's needed to carry the load of Emma Watson.
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It's like there's an agent and a publicist and a manager and a personal assistant,
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and there's all these people and lives who are intertwined with mine.
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Navigating and caring for and negotiating that with people as well was really tricky.
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Also, I was just bloody terrified.
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Like, I think there's a kind of infantilization that can happen when you work as much as I did
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and a kind of loss of independence that means that you're like, oh my God, can I even do my life
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if I don't have this like army of people who are like helping me do the most menial and basic of things?
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Like, can I actually like do this stuff myself?
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And I don't even say that in terms of like capability, but like just from the place of like, it's difficult for me to walk down the street sometimes.
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So if I'm going to start to take on truly the responsibility for most of my life myself, like, what's that going to be like?
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Like, can I really do that stuff?
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I think fame makes you feel like you can't do things for yourself in a way
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that can really disempower you and remove your confidence and autonomy as a human being,
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that's really disabling.
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And for everyone who's wondering, yeah, Emma called me up and I was like, should I speak to you, a publicist?
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She's like, nope, I am my publicist.
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I was like, do I need to check with the manager?
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Nope, I am my manager.
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And like, that was literally the conversation we had.
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So she booked this podcast herself.
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There was no booker, there was no booking system.
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There
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was no reach out it was literally emma doing it herself
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which is proof you are living your values thank you and
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and you are aligned with what you're saying i wanted people to know
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that thank you i appreciate that what's so funny though now is like
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because i do everything myself there's like a 50 chance you would have not thought it was me
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or like sometimes
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when i reach out to people i had plenty of moments
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i had to double take i was like wait a minute
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like verify verify verify the amount of followers who people think it's not me
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and so like i have a 50 50 rate of people actually just like not responding to me
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because they don't think i'd be reaching out myself that's real
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i i had to do a second i think i even
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checked it this morning like wait a minute is it definitely
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her am i going turn up in some like you know
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catfish situation no it's wild yeah yeah oddly sometimes it takes
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more work me trying to do things myself than through the
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system yeah i know you you did a great job but
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that that yeah those those hard questions
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that you asked yourself i mean what was it
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that gave you courage to walk a path where you don't know the next three steps
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when you have an entire career lined up on the other side.
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You have an amazing career.
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Every movie you've been in has been magical and amazing.
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When you look at your portfolio of choices, they're all brilliant performances, they're great films, and you only would have more of that.
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So it's also not like you're leaving a career that's kind of had its, you know what I mean?
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It's at a place where no business-oriented person could imagine why.
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And so what gives you courage when one side is so clear and one side is not clear at all?
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Again, I'm going to tell the honest version of this story.
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I'd love to tell you that it was like this incredible courage and determination I have inside of me.
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And yes, there's part of that.
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I'm not going to completely erase my role in all of this.
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But I think a big part was
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that it was coming to a point with my health
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and nervous system where I was starting to hit a point of not no return
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but like it's interesting I eat well I do yoga I do medit- I do all the things right
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but I think I was using those as a way of mitigating how much stress I I was under,
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as opposed to actually what those things are really for, are compasses and points towards our truth.
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And I was using them as a way of bolstering myself and allowing myself to continue down a path
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that actually was kind of wrecking me.
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And I think it was just like my immune system couldn't pretend anymore.
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I was on seven or eight packets of an antibiotic every year
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because my immune system was so low that I would just constantly be getting sick and a sinus infection and whatever else.
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I have no idea.
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My body just started being like, no. I went from being someone who I would say still handles stress and pressure well,
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And in the moment, I could always do it.
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But the cost afterwards was starting to get more and more serious to the point where it was like,
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I'd always turned down.
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I actually remember I was in my early 20s when a publicist first offered me a beta blocker.
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I was nervous before a carpet.
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And it's the only other time I ever took anything.
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and I was fine for the two hours after I took it.
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And then I got back to the room and when my feelings came back to me,
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I was like overwrought with grief and feeling of having blocked it.
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And so I'd always, and after that, I never allowed anyone to give me anything again,
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even though I was offered things multiple times.
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and doctors wanting to give me things for jet lag and for sleep and for nerves.
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And, oh, everyone takes it.
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This is, you know, there's no shame in this or whatever.
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But I just, I felt like in order to keep going, I was going to have to make a decision of like,
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are you okay with being low level, unwell and medicated, essentially?
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And I just knew that wasn't a choice for me.
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so in a way I have my body to thank
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because my body just I didn't want to ignore my body anymore
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and it didn't matter how many silent retreats I went on
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or how much yoga I did or like what new thing I did to try
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and take care of myself it my body was done and that was then I think
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when I went away and found a relationship with myself
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and my practice and just having trust and faith in a way that I never had before.
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And I started listening more carefully to like these little whispers of like, oh, like maybe this should be the thing you do.
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Or like even coming and doing this of like, I think you should go and do this podcast.
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Just listening to myself for basically in listening to the universe, whatever that means.
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But I never had that before.
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I never knew how to listen for those things before.
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I truly went away and had nothing for a while.
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So that was probably the best result of all of that.
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Yeah, and I think it still takes so much courage because it does, even though you didn't see it that way and you may not have noticed it,
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it still takes so much courage to listen to your body.
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Because it is easy to keep medicating in all the ways to break it anyway.
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And to push it to the edges and the limits of its ability.
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And because you're so addicted or intoxicated by the success or whatever it may be.
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I guess the courageous part was just knowing I didn't want to numb out.
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That was the point at which it got too big of a cost.
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Because I was like, okay, if I feel like I need to be I'm at the point where the price is too high now.

Warum das Sprechen mit diesem Video üben?

In diesem Video äußert sich Emma Watson über ihre persönlichen Erfahrungen mit Ruhm und die Auswirkungen auf ihr Leben. Durch das Üben des Sprechens mit diesem Video können Lernende nicht nur ihr Englisch sprechen verbessern, sondern auch empathisches Verständnis für die Herausforderungen in der Unterhaltungsindustrie entwickeln. Das Nachahmen ihrer Sprechweise ermöglicht es, emotionale Nuancen in der Sprache zu erkennen und zu reproduzieren. Insbesondere durch die shadow speech Technik können Lernende lernen, wie man Intonation und Emotionen authentisch kommuniziert, was für eine effektive und ausdrucksstarke Kommunikation entscheidend ist.

Grammatik & Ausdrücke im Kontext

  • „I certainly made a decision to take time to figure out“ – Dieser Satz nutzt das Simple Past ("made") und bietet einen klaren Ausdruck für vergangene Entscheidungen. Lernende sollten darauf achten, wie man Entscheidungen treffend formuliert.
  • „There’s an agent and a publicist and a manager“ – Die Aufzählung ist ein gutes Beispiel für den Gebrauch von Konjunktionen in der englischen Sprache. Diese Struktur hilft, Informationen klar und prägnant aufzulisten, was besonders nützlich für das Erstellen eigener Sätze ist.
  • „Can I really do that stuff?” – Hier wird die indirekte Frageform verwendet, die oft in alltäglichen Gesprächen vorkommt. Lernende sollten üben, solche Fragen zu formulieren, um ihre Sprechfähigkeit zu verbessern.
  • „I’m still open to doing it again“ – Diese Struktur zeigt die Verwendung von gerund-verben ("doing") nach der Präposition, was häufig vorkommt. Es ist wichtig zu verstehen, wie man solche Formen verwendet, um die Sprache flüssiger und natürlicher zu gestalten.

Gemeinsame Aussprachefallen

Einige Wörter und Phrasen in diesem Video können für Deutschsprachige besonders herausfordernd sein. Zum Beispiel wird „independence“ oft falsch betont. Der Akzent liegt auf der dritten Silbe, was für Lernende, die nicht an diese Betonung gewöhnt sind, knifflig sein kann. Außerdem könnte das Wort „responsibility“ einige Schwierigkeiten bereiten, insbesondere in der Verbindung mit anderen Wörtern im Satz. Um die Englische Aussprache verbessern zu können, ist es wichtig, auf die Betonung und die Verbindung zwischen den Wörtern zu achten, während man die Inhalte nachspricht. Das Üben mit shadowspeak kann hierzu hilfreich sein, um ein besseres Gefühl für den Fluss der Sprache zu 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.