Shadowing-Übung: How babies learn to talk ⏲️ 6 Minute English - Englisch Sprechen Lernen mit YouTube

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6 Minute English from BBC Learning English.
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Hello.
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This is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English.
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I'm Phil.
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And I'm Georgie.
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For most parents, their baby's first word is a special moment.
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This happens after an early stage of language development called babble,
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when babies start making simple sounds like ga or ma.
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Babies have to learn to use their mouth muscles to make specific sounds.
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They experiment with different sounds and mouth shapes.
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So what exactly is happening when babies start learning to speak?
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What do you think, Georgie?
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Well, Phil, I'm no expert,
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but I imagine they watch the adults around them and kind of copy and imitate what they do.
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What do you think?
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I definitely think that's what my children did when they were learning to speak.
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Well, let's compare our ideas with those of an expert.
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Professor Julian Pine from Liverpool University,
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speaking here on BBC Radio 4,
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and he lists the skills that babies develop in order to speak.
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Well, one of the first things the child's got to do is they've got to break down the speech stream into words.
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Then they've got to link the words to the things that they refer to in the environment,
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so they've got to learn what the words mean.
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Right.
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In this programme, we'll discover how babies learn to speak and,
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as usual, we'll learn some useful new vocabulary.
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And on the subject of words,
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remember you can find a list of this programme's vocabulary on our website, bbclearningenglish.com.
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Some people find it helpful to study the vocabulary before listening.
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And another thing to do before listening is ask my question.
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Georgie, we've mentioned the babbling noises that babies make when learning to speak,
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but at what age does this usually start?
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Is it a around six months old,
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b around nine months old,
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or c around one year old?
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OK, I think my best guess would be a around six months old.
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OK, well we'll find out a little bit later on in the programme.
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Let's return to Professor Pine's list.
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The first thing babies do is recognise where individual words start and end.
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For this, it helps to know that,
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in English at least, words often begin with a stressed syllable,
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the sound in a word which is emphasised by being spoken longer or louder.
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Learning this takes time, and here Professor Pine and Michael Rosen,
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presenter of BBC Radio 4's programme Word of Mouth,
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discuss children who haven't quite discovered it yet.
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And we can see this in the kind of errors
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that children make because little kids will often call the giraffe a raff
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by leaving off the unstressed syllable because that's not typical English.
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Oh, and I've got an example of this.
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My son used to call a machine a sminge.
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He just hit the stress.
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He didn't bother with the muth bit.
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Yeah, exactly.
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Well, he may have thought it was my sminge, of course.
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That's the other thing.
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And the classic example, of course,
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is nana instead of banana.
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Yes.
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I think I call them that.
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One error, or mistake, infants make is calling a giraffe a raf,
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because they cut off the first syllable,
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G, because it's not stressed.
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The classic example of this is when children say nana instead of banana.
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A classic example of something means the best example of it,
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one containing all the features you expect such a thing to have.
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For example, ants are a classic example of animals working together.
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The second skill babies develop as they learn to speak is correctly linking a word to the object it refers to.
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In other words, knowing what the word means.
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As adults, we do this without thinking,
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but it's actually much harder than it sounds,
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as Professor Julian Pine explains to BBC Radio 4 programme Word of Mouth.
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Well, we take for granted the fact that it's kind of obvious what words refer to in the environment,
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but actually, if you look at it from the child's point of view,
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it's really difficult to work out what a word refers to because there's so many things it could refer to.
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So, you know, the speech signal is very ambiguous.
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How does the child know that you're talking about the cup in front of you
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or the pen in front of you when you say pen or cup?
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As adults, we take it for granted that when a friend says apple,
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they mean that round red thing on the table.
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To take it for granted means to assume something without question.
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But for a baby, the link between the word apple and the object is not obvious.
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It's ambiguous, meaning it has more than one possible meaning.
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Wow.
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Who knew so much was going on inside babies' sponge-like brains as they soak up the sounds they hear?
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Right.
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Phil, isn't it time to reveal the answer to your question?
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Erm, it is indeed.
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The question was, at what age do babies start to make babbling noises?
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And I said it was around six months.
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And that is the correct answer.
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Yay!
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Babies start to do this when they're about six months old.
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OK, let's recap the vocabulary that we've learnt,
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starting with babble, the meaningless noises babies make as they're learning to speak.
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The stressed syllable in a word is the sound which is emphasised by being longer,
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louder or higher.
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An error is a mistake.
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The classic example of something is the most typical example of it,
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containing its most important features.
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If you take something for granted,
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you accept or assume it without question.
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And finally, the adjective ambiguous means having more than one possible meaning.
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Once again, our six minutes are up,
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but if you're ready for more,
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you'll find the worksheet with a quiz and a transcript for this programme on our website.
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See you there soon.
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Bye!
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Bye!

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Über diese Lektion

In dieser Lektion werden wir uns mit der faszinierenden Art und Weise beschäftigen, wie Babys das Sprechen lernen. Wir werden untersuchen, welche Fähigkeiten erforderlich sind, um Sprache zu verstehen und produzieren, und wie Imitation dabei eine zentrale Rolle spielt. Durch das Anhören der Diskussion zwischen Phil und Georgie sowie den Expertenbeiträgen lernen Sie nicht nur etwas über die Sprachentwicklung, sondern auch nützliche neue Vokabeln, die Sie beim Englisch lernen mit YouTube unterstützen werden. Diese Lektion eignet sich besonders gut zum shadow speech, da die Sprechgeschwindigkeit angenehm ist und die Intonation klaren Beispielen folgt.

Wichtige Vokabeln & Phrasen

  • babble – schwatzen, die ersten Lautäußerungen von Babys
  • mouth muscles – Mundmuskeln
  • words stream – Sprachstrom
  • stressed syllable – betonte Silbe
  • environment – Umgebung
  • imitate – nachahmen
  • errors – Fehler

Übungstipps

Um Ihre Sprechfähigkeiten zu verbessern, empfehle ich Ihnen, die Englisch Shadowing Technik anzuwenden. Während Sie das Video ansehen, hören Sie sich die Wörter und Sätze genau an und wiederholen Sie sie direkt nach. Achten Sie auf die Pausen und den Rhythmus der Sprecher. Kinder lernen durch Nachahmung, und das gilt auch für das Erlernen einer Sprache. Versuchen Sie, die Intonation und den Tonfall von Phil und Georgie genau zu imitieren – dies wird Ihnen helfen, natürlicher zu klingen. Verändern Sie beim Üben gegebenenfalls die Geschwindigkeit, um sowohl langsameres als auch schnelleres Sprechen zu üben. Indem Sie shadowspeaks verwenden, können Sie Ihre Fähigkeiten im Englisch sprechen üben erheblich verbessern. Auch das Aufnehmen Ihrer eigenen Stimme kann hilfreich sein, um Ihre Fortschritte zu verfolgen und Verbesserungen zu erkennen.

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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