Shadowing-Übung: How to Sound Like a British Person 🇬🇧 (British RP Accent Lesson) - Englisch Sprechen Lernen mit YouTube

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Okay, I can get your British accent to sound so much better with just one sentence.
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Okay, I can get your British accent to sound so much better with just one sentence.
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My daughter put a thick brown jumper on a bird because she feared it was starting to look bare.
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Now, this sentence contains a lot of really important sounds for a British RP accent.
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That is the accent you will hear on the BBC a lot of the time.
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So if you hear a newsreader on the BBC,
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they normally talk in what we call a received pronunciation.
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So when I say British accent,
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that is what I'm talking about.
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Obviously, we have lots of different accents in Britain,
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but this is usually the one that my English students want to learn.
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Now, the sounds in this sentence are usually the ones that my English learners find the most difficult.
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So if we can work on these sounds and say this sentence perfectly,
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you are on your way to a perfect British RP accent.
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Let's get started.
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So let's start at the beginning.
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My daughter.
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That word is a really interesting word.
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So the first vowel sound we have there is aw.
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I know it's not spelt like aw,
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it's spelt like dow, really.
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A-U-G-H oh my goodness, what a strange spelling,
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but we pronounce it like or.
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Or sound happens with lots of different spellings.
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So look at all of these words.
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All of these words have the or sound,
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but look at all of those spellings.
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It's so annoying.
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We've got for, floor, jaw, caught, and fought.
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How can all of those different spellings make one sound?
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I don't know, but just be ready for this sound because the spelling will not help you.
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So this word daughter, I want you to imagine that that first sound is just like if you were saying door, door.
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Okay, so we've got open the door,
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daughter, and really make it long.
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It's a long sound.
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Okay, in British sharp E we have short sounds and we have long sounds.
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This is a long sound.
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Daughter.
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And that ER at the end,
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we don't say the R.
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So if you are saying daughter,
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daughter, I want you to say daughter, daughter, uh, uh, uh.
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That E-R ending is actually what we call a schwa,
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a completely neutral sound.
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So make a completely neutral sound with me.
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You ready?
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Uh, uh, uh.
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That's all I want, okay?
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I don't want A, I don't want ooo, I just want a.
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So we put it together and we say daughter, daughter, daughter.
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Okay, I hope you're saying this with me because otherwise I'm just saying it on my own.
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Then the sentence carries on, put a thicc.
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Now there's that th.
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Everybody hates the th.
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The th, they just, they just,
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they just hate it, don't they?
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They hate the th.
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He hates the th.
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Everybody hates it.
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So you have to stick your tongue out.
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When you're learning, I really want that tongue to be visible.
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Thick.
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Thick.
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If you're struggling with that,
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try the TH on its own.
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So get your tongue, stick it between your teeth and breathe.
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It should feel relaxed.
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Don't go, you know, don't tense it all up.
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Relax.
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Relax your face.
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Relax everything.
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There we go.
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Thick.
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Thick.
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Then we have a sound that I never thought would be too difficult,
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but recently a lot of my students have been struggling with this sound.
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Brown.
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Now what people are finding difficult is the ow.
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That is a diphthong.
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It means there are two sounds in it.
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So a monophthong just has one sound like one sound.
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A diphthong has two.
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So we transition from one sound to another.
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So when we say the word brown,
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we need to hear both of the sounds of the diphthong.
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We need to hear aow.
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A lot of my students just do the first part but not the second,
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so it sounds like bran, bran.
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There's no oo in it.
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So
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if I slow it right down it should be brown then
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we have the word jumper some of my Spanish speakers struggle with the they say jumper
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so make sure it's jumper jumper and again
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that er ending is just a schwa forget about it throw
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the sound away don't focus on the second sound some of my students go jump ah jump ah
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and we don't need that just really give it a very light sound jumper jumper jumper
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so putting that Together we have a thick brown jumper.
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My daughter put a thick brown jumper on a bird.
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That is another really difficult sound.
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So it's a long sound and it requires your jaw to go down.
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I think because people see an R in that word they go bird.
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So we have to drop the jaw and we go
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put a B in front of it then put a D bird, bird, bird.
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My daughter put a thick brown jumper on a bird.
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You're doing well, let's carry on.
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The next interesting word here is feared, feared.
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Again, this is where people want to do an R,
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they want to say feared, feared.
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But this is another diphthong.
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The diphthong is ear ear ear do you hear how it drops to nothing ear
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so if we just say that word fear fear
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because she feared okay not feared it was starting starting
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that ah sound is like a choir Fa la la la la la la la la la starting.
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Ca, fa.
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That's the sound.
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So really think about open, jaw down, starting.
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Not starting.
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Starting.
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She feared it was starting to look bare.
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Air.
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There's another diphthong.
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Air.
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So this is the sound you would hear in these words like hair, where, bear, there.
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It was starting to look there.
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It was starting to look bare.
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Okay then shall we put it all together
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and just practice it a couple of times okay so you can pause this video,
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you can play it slower,
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do whatever you need to do.
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I'm going to say it twice for you, okay?
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Here we go.
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My daughter put a thick brown jumper on a bird because she feared it was starting to look bare.
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My daughter put a thick brown jumper on a bird because she feared it was starting to look bare.
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So take your time with that sentence.
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I want you to practice that every day if you can.
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Say it three times every day, but do it intentionally.
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It will not help you if you sit there and go,
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my daughter put a thick brown jumper on a bird because that's not going to help you.
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Do it in front of a mirror.
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Look at your mouth.
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Pronunciation is all about changing the shapes that your mouth make.
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So naturally, your mouth wants to make certain shapes we need to change it
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and train it to make different shapes well done well done i hope this video was useful for you
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if it was useful give it a like and make sure you subscribe
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if you haven't already
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Thank you so much for being here and I will see you next time.
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Ta-ta!

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Warum mit diesem Video sprechen üben?

Das Üben des Sprechens mit diesem Video ist eine hervorragende Möglichkeit, deinen britischen Akzent zu verbessern und deine Aussprache zu verfeinern. Das im Video präsentierte Beispiel, das mit der für das Received Pronunciation (RP) typischen Aussprache arbeitet, ist besonders wertvoll für Lernende, die sich auf eine präzise und formelle Sprechweise konzentrieren möchten. Durch das Nachsprechen der Sätze kannst du nicht nur dein Hörverständnis erweitern, sondern auch dein Selbstbewusstsein im Sprechen stärken.

Vorteile des Englisch Shadowing

Englisch Shadowing, insbesondere mit einem so klaren Beispiel wie diesem, hilft dir, die Rhythmus- und Intonationsmuster der englischen Sprache zu erfassen. Du wirst nicht nur hören, wie die Laute produziert werden, sondern auch lernen, sie selbst zu replizieren – was entscheidend für das fließende Sprechen ist.

Grammatik & Ausdrücke im Kontext

Im Video werden mehrere interessante Strukturen verwendet, die für das Verständnis der englischen Sprache wichtig sind:

  • Mein Tochter - Diese einfache Struktur zeigt, wie Besitz im Englischen ausgedrückt wird. Es ist wichtig zu erkennen, dass der Artikel "my" den Besitz anzeigt.
  • put on - Eine häufige Phrasierung im Englischen, die "anziehen" bedeutet. Diese phrasalen Verben sind eine Schlüsselressource für das flüssige Sprechen und das Verständnis von Alltagskonversationen.
  • feared that - Diese Struktur vermittelt eine Form der Sorge oder Vorahnung. Sie hilft dabei, komplexere Sätze zu bilden und deine Ausdrucksweise zu verfeinern.

Indem du die Struktur dieser Sätze nachsprichst, kannst du dein Verständnis für die Grammatik und die Verwendung von Ausdrücken im Kontext vertiefen, was essenziell für das Englisch lernen mit YouTube ist.

Häufige Aussprachefallen

Das Video hebt spezifische Wörter hervor, die für Lernende oft schwer auszusprechen sind. Ein Beispiel ist das Wort daugher, das im britischen Englisch mit einem besonderen Laut ausgesprochen wird, den viele Lernende herausfordernd finden:

  • daugher - Die Lautkombination „au“ in diesem Wort wird als „or“ ausgesprochen. Diese Aussprache kann verwirrend sein, weil die Schreibweise nicht dem Klang entspricht.
  • ER-Endung - Die Aussprache der Endung „-er“ ist im britischen Englisch oft unbetont und klingt mehr wie ein „a“, was durch das Konzept des Schwa verdeutlicht wird.

Indem du diese spezifischen Ausdrücke und ihre Aussprache übst, wirst du deine Fähigkeiten im Shadow Speak verbessern und verschiedene Schattensprache-Techniken effizienter anwenden können.

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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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