Shadowing-Übung: From Pain to Progress: Your Journey to Finding Hope - Englisch Sprechen Lernen mit Video

My first walk on my own was absolutely heartbreaking.

While I was walking, I actually said to myself, this is one of the hardest things you have ever done.

It was the most acute pain.

It was heartbreaking because it was what he loves.

It's just what he loves.

And then, you know, I just thought, I'm on my own here, and he should be here, you know.

I then walked down and I sat and I looked up at the mountain and I thought, Good on you.

Good on you, girl.

You did that.

Graham would be proud of me.

His slogan for everything was onward and upward.

And he would be saying, that's my girl.

I really feel I need to kind of live for him, in a way. Because he'd want that.

He really, really would.

Graham's dying was such a shock because everything was kind of perfect.

He was well, he was on a hike with his mates down the Wild Coast, so happy.

A place we've walked a hundred times.

And then he got to the airport after the six days away and he phoned up and said, can't wait to see you sweetie pie,

I have so much to tell you.

And he never came home and I was preparing the dinner

and I started to get edgy because now it's six and I'm working out, look he's against the traffic, where is he, you know.

Then the phone rang and a person who was not first language English speaker

said his name in a way that clearly he hadn't said his name to her.

She was reading it.

Are you related to Graham Charnock?

And I said, yes, yes, what's wrong?

And she said, you need to bring the family, he's collapsed.

I drove to the hospital and they rushed me down to the clinic

and the minute I walked in and there's three big burly policemen waiting for me, I just knew, I just knew,

this is it, this is it.

The huge comfort is he did just die so suddenly

and someone mentioned there was a little bump on his head and he obviously dropped.

He didn't even know to put his hand up.

And one of the doctor friends that took me out said, Liz, he wouldn't have known what hit him.

He had a heart attack and that's it.

And that's what I've chosen to believe and I believe it.

For a long time after Graham died, I didn't get a yearning to go back to the studio.

It just wasn't, it wasn't even, it didn't cross my mind.

I didn't feel a creative urge or anything.

It just wasn't what I was dealing with.

And I just visualized and processed the walk Graham did.

There was a part of me that was so sad that I hadn't been there with him.

So I felt that I knew where he'd been and I knew the views he was looking at and so on.

So I just worked on,

in an abstract way, I just worked on these scenes of the Wild Coast and imagined I was walking down with him.

I wrote little words on it like I hear you whisper to me in the wind and the waves.

It's a lonely walk.

Sorry.

It's a lonely walk without you.

I'll always be with you.

Yeah, but for me that was my process and it's nice to look back and see it's not somber,

but it makes me feel on some level that I was there with him.

I do chat to him, sometime.

I don't believe he's hovering around me, or looking out for me, but I feel his presence.

I especially feel his presence in nature, or on the mountain, or hearing a bird sound or something.

For me it's perfectly natural.

If he was here, what would I say to him?

I think that I would just see him and tell him that I'm doing the best I can.

I miss you.

I miss...

I miss you very painfully at times, but it's not going to get me down.

I'm going to keep going.

I've only lost Graham a year next month.

And according to the way it must be, the way it must be is you wear black in many, many cultures for a year at least, maybe two.

And here I am, I have the pain, but not all the time.

There's excitement, there are possibilities.

I'm 72.

How much longer have I got?

Graham said to me not long before he died, God, you're so lucky.

You've got six years that I don't have.

You've got six years, because I'm six years younger.

And he said, just think of what you can do and where you can go.

And I was kind of horrified.

I said, what do you mean?

You fitter than I am.

You're brighter than I am.

You remember the names, I forget them.

He said, no, no, no, you've got six years, Les.

And you know, the more I think about it, the more I think, I have got to get out there.

It's not going to take away the pain.

It's not going to take away 48 years of connection

and sharing and having that person always looking out for you and always being there and excited to get together.

It's not going to take that away.

But I have got to start on my own new adventures.

I've got to fill those six years.

They're my gift.

I have been in touch with friends, I've lost their husbands, sometimes three years ago, sometimes four years ago.

And there's no judgement here, there's no judgement, but they haven't moved on into a new space.

I'm finding it very difficult to walk out as an individual person.

And I totally understand that.

But I lie awake at night when I'm feeling excited about something and I think,

do I love him less than my friends love their husbands? And maybe I'm selfish.

And then I think, how am I selfish?

Who doesn't benefit from me making an effort to get back into life?

For all my sadness and all those moments when I lean across

and he's not there and I come home

and something's worrying me about an interaction I might have had

and all I want to do is get into my safe space where Graham is

and he and we talk about it and he's there

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and as I'm driving home I think who is there you know I'll go through all of

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that but at the same time there's that little bubble that comes up that says yes take the gift

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The other day my son said something to me and I think for me

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It was one of the best compliments I've ever had.

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He just said, you know, Mom, when you walk into a room, when you leave the room, everyone feels happier and lighter.

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And I thought about that and I thought, that is the most beautiful thing anyone could say.

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So maybe that's my purpose.

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I realise that with what's going on in the world, I can make very little impact on a gram scale.

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But I make a huge impact every day in my life by just my interactions.

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That's why I'm here.

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In small ways, giving somebody a moment of light in the day.

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And that comes very naturally to me because I get as much from it.

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The beauty is the helping hand.

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The beauty is what lifts you up.

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The nature, the space, it's the one thing that kind of stays constant while everything else is changing.

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But with the beauty comes extreme pain, exquisite pain.

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It's in the beauty that I feel the missing, and yet it's uplifting.

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It is a beautiful world.

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Thank you so much for watching this story all the way to the end

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and a special thank you to all of you on Patreon who help us to make these films.

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If you want to join us on the journey please click the link over here, I think.

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It just wouldn't be possible without you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Wortschatz und Sprechhinweise zu dieser Lektion

Diese Sprechübung auf Niveau B2 basiert auf dem Video „From Pain to Progress: Your Journey to Finding Hope“. Dieses Video enthält 123 Sätze und 1375 Wörter zum Nachsprechen. Der gesprochene Teil dauert 13:11. Der Sprecher spricht langsam, etwa 104 Wörter pro Minute, sodass genug Zeit bleibt, jeden Laut nachzuahmen. 85 % 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:

Wort	Aussprache	Bedeutung
heartbreaking Adjektiv		herzzerreißend
selfish Adjektiv	/ˈsɛlf.ɪʃ/	egoistisch, selbstsüchtig
horrify Verb	/ˈhɒɹɪfaɪ/	entsetzen, erschrecken
onward Adverb	/ˈɒnwəd/	vorwärts
painfully Adverb	/ˈpeɪnfəli/	schmerzhaft
sombre Adjektiv	/ˈsɑmbɚ/	dunkel, düster
visualize Verb	/ˈvɪʒuəˌlaɪz/	veranschaulichen
exquisite Adjektiv	/ɪkˈskwɪzɪt/	exquisit, köstlich
upward Adverb	/ˈʌpwɚd/	aufwärts
slogan Substantiv	/ˈsloʊɡən/	Devise, Leitspruch
gram Substantiv	/ˈɡɹæm/	Gramm
sadness Substantiv	/ˈsædnəs/	Traurigkeit
compliment Substantiv	/ˈkɑmpləmənt/	Kompliment, Lob
hike Substantiv	/haɪk/	Wanderung
bump Substantiv	/bʌmp/	Schlag, Stoß

Phrasal Verbs, die du hören wirst

Wort	Aussprache	Bedeutung
take away Verb	/ˌteɪk əˈweɪ/	wegnehmen
come up Verb		erscheinen
get out Verb		aussteigen
look back Verb		zurückschauen, zurückblicken
work out Verb	/ˌwɝk ˈaʊt/	ausrechnen

Sätze zum Wiederholen

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

A place we've walked a hundred times.
And I said, yes, yes, what's wrong?
I didn't feel a creative urge or anything.
How much longer have I got?
I said, what do you mean?

Aussprache, auf die du achten solltest

Der Sprecher verwendet 43 Kurzformen und abgeschwächte Formen, zum Beispiel I'm, I've, didn't. Sprich sie in der kurzen Form, so wie du sie hörst.

Die Laute „sh“ und „zh“: selfish /ˈsɛlf.ɪʃ/, visualize /ˈvɪʒuəˌlaɪz/

Laute, die Deutschsprachigen schwerfallen:

/w/ — mit runden Lippen, nicht wie das deutsche „w“ (/v/): onward /ˈɒnwəd/, sweetie /ˈswi.ti/, exquisite /ɪkˈskwɪzɪt/, upward /ˈʌpwɚd/, whisper /ˈ(h)wɪspɚ/
Stimmhafter Auslaut — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ am Wortende nicht verhärten: onward /ˈɒnwəd/, visualize /ˈvɪʒuəˌlaɪz/, upward /ˈʌpwɚd/, urge /ɜːd͡ʒ/
/æ/ — offener als „ä“: gram /ˈɡɹæm/, sadness /ˈsædnəs/, abstract /ˈæbˌstɹækt/, collapse /kəˈlæps/

So übst du mit diesem Video

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

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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Wortschatz und Sprechhinweise zu dieser Lektion

Wichtiger Wortschatz in diesem Video

Phrasal Verbs, die du hören wirst

Sätze zum Wiederholen

Aussprache, auf die du achten solltest

So übst du mit diesem Video

Was ist die Shadowing-Technik?