Shadowing-Übung: English Speaking Practice - Speak with me! (Shadowing Method) - Englisch Sprechen Lernen mit YouTube

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Hello, lovely students, and welcome back to English with Lucy.
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I have a very special lesson for you today that's going to help you practice your speaking and pronunciation skills in English.
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Today, we're going to do some shadowing.
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You are going to become my shadow.
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Shadowing is a repetition technique that can help improve your pronunciation and aid you to sound more natural in English.
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In addition to the amazing speaking practice you're getting in today's lesson, I've also created a free PDF that you can download.
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It has the full transcription, plus some new vocabulary, some more information on how to shadow effectively, and a quiz to test what you've learned.
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If you'd like to download that, just click on the link in the description box.
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You enter your name and your email address.
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The PDF will arrive directly in your inbox.
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After that, you will automatically receive my free weekly lesson PDFs, plus all of my news, course updates, and offers.
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Also, you're here because you want to improve your English speaking.
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Okay, before we begin your speaking practice, I want to explain what shadowing is and what I'm going to ask you to do in this video.
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When shadowing, you repeat what someone is saying with as little delay as possible.
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It's not repeat after me, it's speak along with me.
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So while I speak, you speak too, trying to match my speech patterns, my intonation and pronunciation.
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This is a great way to improve your speaking, especially if you don't have anyone to speak with.
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It feels a bit weird at first, but once you understand and know the technique, You can use literally any audio you want to practise more.
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Just choose a person who you want to sound like and go for it.
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Okay, I'm going to tell you a story about something slightly embarrassing that happened to Will and me last week.
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Some of the vocabulary might be new for you.
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Don't worry, I've put a full list of vocab in the PDF.
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When shadowing, the primary focus is not on the grammar or the vocabulary.
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It's on mimicking the pronunciation of the speaker.
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First, just listen to me.
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Then we'll talk about the pronunciation.
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Then you can practise.
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The other night, Will and I were sitting down to dinner when we heard a thump above our heads.
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That's our first sentence.
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Did you notice anything about my pronunciation?
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I want to point out a couple of features that will help you sound more natural when you're shadowing me.
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Firstly, I used a schwa when saying Will and I, and I elided or dropped the d sound in and.
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will and I, not will and I, will and I.
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I also used a weak form of were, were, to, to, and the article a, a.
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That was just before thump, a thump.
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And did you hear which word was most stressed in that sentence?
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Thump, that was the most interesting and surprising information.
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Okay, let's practise together now.
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Speak along with me.
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The other night, Will and I were sitting down to dinner when we heard a thump above our heads.
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Good, if you want more practise, just pause the video, replay that part.
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Here's the next part of the story.
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Listen first.
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We live in an old house, so we just shrugged it off and started eating.
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There was another louder thud, and then what sounded like footsteps.
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Creepy, right?
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So before you speak along with me, I want to point out one feature of connected speech in that sentence, catenation, which is when a consonant sound at the end of one word joins with a vowel sound at the beginning of the next.
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You saw this in living and old, living and old, and shrugged it off, Shrugged it off.
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Live in an old.
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It's almost like old starts with N.
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An old.
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Live in an old.
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Let's practise again.
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Now say it with me out loud.
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We live in an old house, so we just shrugged it off and started eating.
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There was another louder thud and then what sounded like footsteps.
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Okay, the next part.
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Just listen.
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I am not joking when I tell you the hairs on my arms stood on end.
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Even Will looked a bit shaken, which is not like him at all.
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He called our dog Diego for company and went upstairs to investigate.
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Okay, a few things to point out here before we try this together.
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Firstly, I didn't use a contraction with I am, I am.
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You probably know that we almost always use contractions rather than full forms when we're speaking, especially in informal situations.
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But here I chose to use the full form for emphasis.
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I also stressed not.
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You also heard assimilation with the words on my.
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The n in on became on my.
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There are also examples of intrusion in the text.
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I am, my arms, to investigate.
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Between I am and my arms, I inserted a y sound.
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and between to and investigate, to investigate, there was a wha sound.
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Now let's practise together.
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I am not joking when I tell you the hairs on my arms stood on end.
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Even Will looked a bit shaken, which is not like him at all.
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He called our dog Diego for company and went upstairs to investigate.
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Great, okay, here's the final part of my story and your shadowing exercise.
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Listen first.
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Moments later, Diego came bounding down the stairs with a tennis ball in his mouth.
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What do you know?
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A bunch of tennis balls had fallen off the top of the wardrobe and rolled down the landing.
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And there you have it.
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Will and I felt a bit silly, but Diego was really happy.
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All right, before you do your final shadowing, there are just a few things to point out.
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One, notice how I said, what do you know?
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What do you know?
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This is an informal contraction and these are really common in speech.
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And the final thing is that I said, Tennis balls had fallen.
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Tennis balls had fallen.
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Balls had had a weak form.
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Instead of saying balls had, balls had.
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Okay, do it with me.
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Let's do your final shadowing practise.
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Moments later, Diego came bounding down the stairs with a tennis ball in his mouth.
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What do you know?
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A bunch of tennis balls had fallen off the top of the wardrobe and rolled down the landing.
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Okay, how did you do?
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Were you able to speak along with me?
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If not, don't worry.
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Shadowing is quite an advanced technique and it takes time and practise and a bit of humility to master.
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But it's a really valuable way to practise lots of different features of pronunciation and to try to sound a bit more like a native speaker if that's what you're looking to achieve.
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Let me know if you enjoyed this lesson and if you'd like to do some more shadowing lessons, I'd love to make them for you.
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Don't forget to download the free PDF.
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The link is in the description box.
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And you can claim your $10 of LanguaTalk lesson credit by messaging the support team with the code SPEAKING10 after your first lesson purchase.
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The link for that is also in the description.
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Just visit EnglishwithLucy.com if you want to learn more and enroll in one of my English courses with me.
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I will see you soon for another lesson.
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Mwah!
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Warum das Sprechen mit diesem Video üben?

Das Üben des Sprechens ist ein entscheidender Schritt, um Ihre Englischkenntnisse zu verbessern. In diesem Video haben die Schüler die Möglichkeit, die Shadowing-Methode anzuwenden. Diese Technik ermöglicht es den Lernenden, in Echtzeit mit dem Sprecher zu sprechen, wodurch das Englisch sprechen üben nicht nur effektiver, sondern auch unterhaltsamer wird. Durch das Nachahmen der Sprachmuster, Intonation und Aussprache können Sie natürlicher klingen und Ihr Selbstvertrauen beim Sprechen stärken. Diese Methode ist besonders vorteilhaft, wenn Sie keinen Gesprächspartner haben, denn Sie werden zum Schatten des Sprechers und entwickeln so Ihre shadow speech.

Grammatik & Ausdrücke im Kontext

Bei der Praxis des Englisch Shadowing ist es wichtig, auch die verwendeten grammatikalischen Strukturen zu beachten. Hier sind einige der Schlüsselausdrücke aus dem Video:

  • „Will und ich“: In diesem Satz wird die Schwäche bei der Aussprache von „und“ oft ignoriert, was dazu führt, dass es als „will n’ I“ klingt. Diese Form der Auslassung ist typisch im gesprochenen Englisch und ein gutes Beispiel für die Alltagssprache.
  • „Ein Geräusch hören“: Der Satz „wir hörten ein Geräusch“ verdeutlicht die Verwendung des Past Simple in einer natürlichen Erzählung.
  • „Nicht sofort wiederholen“: Der Sprecher betont, dass das Nachsprechen in Echtzeit und nicht das wiederholte Nachsprechen entscheidend ist, um die Sprachfähigkeiten zu verbessern.

Häufige Aussprachefallen

Ein weiterer wichtiger Aspekt des shadowspeak ist die Aussprache. Einige Ausdrücke und Wörter können knifflig sein:

  • Schwa-Laut: Im Englischen wird häufig der Schwa-Laut /ə/ verwendet, wie in „Will und ich“. Dies zu bemerken, kann Ihnen helfen, natürlicher zu sprechen.
  • Aussprache von „und“: Der Laut „d“ in „und“ wird oft weggelassen, wenn er in fließendem Gespräch verwendet wird. Es klingt eher wie „n“ in „Will an I“.
  • Elision: In Sätzen wie „a thump“ wird das „a“ in „ein Geräusch“ häufig schnell zusammengezogen, was wichtig ist, um die gebräuchliche Aussprache im Englischen zu beherrschen.

Indem Sie diese Feinheiten im Englisch sprechen üben berücksichtigen, verbessern Sie nicht nur Ihre Aussprache, sondern auch Ihre Fähigkeit, in verschiedenen Konversationen zu navigieren. Nutzen Sie das shadowing site als wertvolles Werkzeug auf Ihrem Lernweg!

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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