Shadowing-Übung: How to live longer and make it suck less - Englisch Sprechen Lernen mit Video

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Hey, slow down.

I got something to talk about for a minute.

I hate going to the grocery store.

It freaking sucks.

I do not come here because I have to.

I do come here because I have to.

Not because I want to.

It's become kind of a necessary evil.

I got to spend hours of my life coming here for my family.

But I've been challenging myself recently.

Instead of coming in here, flying in, trying to grab everything I need, check out, leave.

Can I slow down?

Kind of relax a little bit?

Peruse the aisles?

Maybe even enjoy myself?

I've been wearing earbuds to the store to try to make this happen.

I hate it when people are always wearing their AirPods out in public.

But I have bit the bullet because if you can shift into this gear,

you're shifting into the same gear as some of the people who have lived the longest in the world.

120 year old people.

And there's a name for this gear.

Harvard calls it slow living.

Slowing down to a very comfortable pace and being okay in the moment that you're in.

Taking it all in people who can do this can avoid all this stress and tension that comes with life sometimes.

And it turns out that stuff kind of kills you.

If you're stressed out all the time, your cells age faster, your DNA can get damaged.

Serious stuff.

And guess what?

Gene Calment, 122 years old.

Richard Overton, 112.

All these people that lived super long lives, They're smoking.

They're drinking.

But they're not letting stuff stress them out.

They let go of stuff.

So it might be worth asking yourself, when you're feeling rushed, could I slow down and enjoy this?

And you might be surprised when the trade -off isn't actually as bad as you thought it might be.

There's a great story about this.

A guy, Derek, he loved riding his bike.

He lived out in California by the coast

and there is this 15 mile loop right on the ocean that he would go to all the time.

And he kind of got in a habit of just hauling through this thing.

He knew it backwards and forwards.

He could do the whole thing in about 43 minutes.

But what starts to happen is then if he hits it longer than 43 minutes, he's a little bit like, ah man.

So one day he's going and he's tired.

He's kind of stressed out.

The idea of having to do this crazy

Thing he just doesn't have it in him.

So he's like, you know what today I don't care about the time.

I'm just gonna go at a pace that feels comfortable for me

So he's going he's a little bit more relaxed.

There's a dolphin jumping in the ocean

He looks up and there's a seagull flying over his head and it poops in his mouth apparently.

I don't know if that's true but that's what he says.

So that part's not good but he feels like he can just go forever.

This is great.

He kind of remembers his joy for cycling.

He looks down at his watch when he's done.

45 minutes.

Two minutes longer than his usual time.

he would just squeeze all the juice

he had in him go as hard as possible for four percent faster than today

and that is a lesson that he never forgot

and it makes me wonder could I relax

and get pretty much the same result I think that's true more often than we might think

that's what he called his blog article relax for the same result wrote

it in 2015 i'll link it my dad sent me

that i don't know

but the other thing is uh

you might be sacrificing a lot more than just stress by not slowing down enough

i had this manager at work his name was mcqueen

i'm just gonna call him that

because he likes going fast okay we had this project we're assigned

and he wants to get this thing done as fast as possible.

He wants to impress the CEO.

He knows he wants it done.

And he's like, we can just like...

Faster than fast, quicker than quick.

It's just the two of us.

I'm the one building it.

And I just kind of slapped this thing out.

And he's like, all right, let's go release it.

Send it out to production.

This is like software stuff.

And now, was everybody really impressed?

No, they hated it.

It broke immediately

and people were like what the heck is going on people are complaining

we're getting tickets coming in i have to spend more time fixing

this stupid thing than i did building it in the first place

i ended up having to answer for this in my performance review it was it was not good

and uh this is why the military has a mantra slow is smooth smooth is fast i think enough guys

messed stuff up severely.

You know, but if you take a step back, you can see your surroundings and make sure you're stepping in the right places.

You go to the grocery store, try to just get in and out as fast as possible.

You forget something.

And then halfway through the week, you have to come back and you had Cheetos for lunch.

So it might not be a bad idea to ask yourself, Could I slow down and not just get the same result,

but maybe a better one?

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That's true a lot of the time, I think.

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Now here's the deal.

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I love going fast, right?

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I like driving fast, exercising.

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There's times to do it.

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But when you're going fast, ask yourself, am I doing this because it's fun?

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Or am I going fast because I feel some kind of pressure?

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Am I stressed out right now?

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Is this fast fun or fear?

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That's what you should ask.

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Is it fast fun, fear, fight on fall?

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Now look, pressure is fun sometimes and stress has a purpose.

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It's also good sometimes.

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Push yourself, put yourself in uncomfortable situations, but just remember that sometimes you have a choice in the matter.

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That's kind of the point, right?

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Slow down, enjoy your life, break less stuff, and live longer.

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Hopefully.

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You know.

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I'm sorry.

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Wortschatz und Sprechhinweise zu dieser Lektion

Diese Sprechübung basiert auf dem Video „How to live longer and make it suck less“. Diese Wörter kommen am häufigsten vor: fast, slow, stress. Dieses Video enthält 118 Sätze und 1065 Wörter zum Nachsprechen. Der gesprochene Teil dauert 7:26. Der Sprecher spricht gleichmäßig mit etwa 143 Wörtern pro Minute – ein angenehmes Tempo fürs Shadowing. 87 % der Wörter gehören zu den 3.000 häufigsten im Englischen, der Wortschatz ist also leicht zu verfolgen.

Wichtiger Wortschatz in diesem Video

15 lernenswerte Wörter aus dem Video, mit Aussprache und Bedeutung:

Wort	Aussprache	Bedeutung
relax Verb	/ɹɪˈlæks/	lockern, entspannen
distress Substantiv	/dɪˈstɹɛs/	Bedrängnis, Elend
gear Substantiv	/ɡɪɚ/	Ausrüstung
smooth Adjektiv	/smuːð/	reibungslos, problemlos
pace Substantiv	/peɪs/	Schritt
impress Verb	/ɪmˈpɹɛs/	beeindrucken
rush Verb	/ɹʌʃ/	hetzen, sich beeilen
lesson Substantiv	/ˈlɛs.ən/	Lehrstunde, Stunde
suck Verb	/sʌk/	saugen, nippeln
gene Substantiv	/d͡ʒiːn/	Gen
juice Substantiv	/d͡ʒuːs/	Saft
loop Substantiv	/luːp/	Schlaufe, Schlinge
sacrifice Substantiv	/ˈsæk.ɹɪ.faɪs/	Opfer
bullet Substantiv	/ˈbʊlɪt/	Kugel, Ball
habit Substantiv	/ˈhæb.ɪt/	Gewohnheit, Gepflogenheit

Phrasal Verbs, die du hören wirst

Wort	Aussprache	Bedeutung
slow down Verb		verlangsamen
stress out Verb		stressen
check out Verb		überprüfen
come back Verb		zurückkommen, zurückkehren
end up Verb		sich herausstellen, am Ende irgendwo / etwas sein
look up Verb	/ˌlʊk ˈʌp/	bergauf gehen, aufwärtsgehen
turn out Verb		sich herausstellen als/dass, sich erweisen als

Sätze zum Wiederholen

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

Can I slow down?
It's just the two of us.
I'm the one building it.
That's true a lot of the time, I think.
Am I stressed out right now?

Grammatik in diesem Video

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

Struktur	Im Video
Relativsätze who / which + Satz – eine Zusatzinformation über eine Person oder Sache	people who have · people who can
Möglichkeit mit „might / may“ might/may + Verb – etwas ist möglich, aber nicht sicher	might be · might think · might not be
Komparativ -er than / more … than – zwei Dinge vergleichen	longer than · faster than · more often than
Present Continuous am/is/are + -ing – etwas, das gerade jetzt oder zurzeit passiert	are always wearing · you're shifting · They're smoking

Aussprache, auf die du achten solltest

Der Sprecher verwendet 25 Kurzformen und abgeschwächte Formen, zum Beispiel you're, I'm, don't. Sprich sie in der kurzen Form, so wie du sie hörst.

Die Laute „sh“ und „zh“: rush /ɹʌʃ/, tension /ˈtɛnʃən/

Laute, die Deutschsprachigen schwerfallen:

/w/ — mit runden Lippen, nicht wie das deutsche „w“ (/v/): halfway /ˌhæfˈweɪ/, squeeze /skwiːz/, backward /ˈbækwɚd/
Stimmhafter Auslaut — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ am Wortende nicht verhärten: squeeze /skwiːz/, surroundings /səˈɹaʊndɪŋz/, backward /ˈbækwɚd/, earbud /ˈiɹ.bʌd/, peruse /pəˈɹuːz/
/æ/ — offener als „ä“: relax /ɹɪˈlæks/, sacrifice /ˈsæk.ɹɪ.faɪs/, habit /ˈhæb.ɪt/, halfway /ˌhæfˈweɪ/, slap /slæp/

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 relax, distress, gear.

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