Shadowing-Übung: I'm So Clumsy! | Advanced English Listening Practice - Englisch Sprechen Lernen mit Video

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Hello everybody, this is Elliot from ETJ English.
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How are you all doing today?
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So I thought today maybe we'd do a bit of a listening practice, okay?
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So we're just going to listen to me talk a little bit.
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Feel free to just kind of sit back, relax, listen to my voice and analyse the way I speak and also enjoy the story.
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But first of all, I want to talk about something called clumsiness
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or to be clumsy because this is really related to the story I'm going to tell you.
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So first of all, I am a very, very, very, very, very clumsy person.
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I'm extremely clumsy, okay?
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To be clumsy essentially is to be the sort of person who has a lot of accidents.
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Let's say you're, let me give you another true story.
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Let's say I'm sat at a restaurant.
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As always in the restaurant, I've got lovely glass of wine next to me.
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Red wine, that's my chosen alcoholic beverage.
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Maybe it's just, you know, just here on the table.
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I'm talking and bang!
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In the middle of conversation, the red wine is all over the white tablecloth.
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Everything is red now and I have ruined my date, let's say, or my whatever it is that I'm doing,
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my meal, and probably have to pay some kind of fine to the restaurant for for destroying their tablecloth
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and this is what clumsiness is essentially in its purest form clumsiness is
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when we always have accidents things always go wrong maybe we're
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not very good with our hands they always end up knocking
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things over to knock something over is to make something fall
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we might smash things imagine a glass drop it on the
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floor smashed um also we i'm not very good with my legs
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so i might fall over quite a lot hit my knee on a door
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or or walk into the bed or hit my head on something okay
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so this is what clumsiness is
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and this is me i want to tell you a little story about
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when i was uh about 14 i was in year eight in school
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and it was a very hot summer day okay very hot summer day
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and it was lunchtime break time some people call it where we have time out from lessons
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and we relax there's a place where all of my friends where we used to sit
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and chill out relax talk catch up with each other in a field
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and there was lots of trees in this field
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and me being the person i was
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when i was a teenager all i wanted to do was
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kind of impress the impress the girls make them think i'm i'm really cool
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which I'm not and I decided to climb a tree
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so I climbed to the top of this tree took me a while
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and when I got to the top of this tree I you know shouted I wanted everyone to see
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that I was at the top of this tree
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so I shouted I was right at the top of this tree look at me
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and um I fell so straight away I just went and
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that that was that my my wrists hit the ground one wrist went like
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that one wrist went like that
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and they were completely out of shape not the way they should be quite obviously they were broken
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because I'd fallen quite a high distance not only that
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but I also landed flat on my nose and it was broken and there was blood everywhere.
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I was knocked out, okay?
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To be knocked out means to be unconscious.
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So yes, I hit my head, my face so hard that I was knocked out.
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And the next thing I knew, I was woken up in hospital with two broken wrists and a flat nose.
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And that's probably why my nose is such a funny shape now.
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And this really did affect me it changed my my year i guess i had six months off school
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because i could do nothing with my arms i couldn't write
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i was stuck like a robot for a long time
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and um my mum had to wash me in the bath
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because i i couldn't i couldn't have a bath on my
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own my mum had to wash me even worse my my
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parents had to use the toilet paper on my bottom yes
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that's right my parents had to wipe my ass for me i never thought i would tell anyone this
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and now i'm telling 20 000 people
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that my parents have had to wipe my bottom
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when i was a teenager which is really embarrassing
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but this is what happened one thing i'd also like to
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tell you i want to teach you a bit of vocabulary in this
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comesy -ness runs in my family it runs in the family now
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if something runs in the family what that means is
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that it's something
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that kind of maybe happens to my dad he's always knocking
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glasses over at the table he's always smashing plates by accident dropping things so same as me
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It also happens to my sister.
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It also happened to my granddad before he passed away.
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So it's something that runs in the family.
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A lot of people in my family, it happens to them also.
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They also have this clumsy gene every day.
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It's an everyday problem.
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It's like a disease.
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And I actually think it's quite an endearing thing.
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Endearing.
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It's something that's quite interesting about a person.
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It's something different.
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It's unique and I embrace it.
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Now I laugh about any incidents that happened to me.
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But the reason I'm kind of telling this listening practice is because I actually want you to tell me, are you a clumsy person?
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Does this happen to you?
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Do you have any really interesting stories that you want to tell me about your clumsy experiences?
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Or are you a perfect person who never makes mistakes?
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Because I know there are some of you out there who are just very lucky and not clumsy at all.
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Now thank you very much for watching.
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If you would like to book a Skype lesson with me, learn real British English, pronunciation, connected speech, expressions, everything and become one of my friends as well as a student of mine,
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feel free to go down below in the description box and book a Skype lesson with me.
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The first lesson is just two pounds.
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It's been a pleasure telling you this story.
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Please do tell me if you enjoy these listening practices and I will do more along with the lessons also.
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But yes, thank you very much for watching guys.
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You're all great.
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There's 20 ,000 of you now.
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I could not be happier.
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Let's make it 100 ,000.
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Come on, let's do it.
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Tell all your friends about ETJ English.
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Help them become a fluent British English speaker.
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Cheers guys and I'll see you all in the next lesson.
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Stay clumsy.
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Bye.
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Thank you.

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Dieses Video hilft dir, zwei zentrale Fähigkeiten fürs Englischsprechen zu stärken: Zum einen trainierst du das Verstehen von alltäglichem, spontanen Sprechen – wie es in echten Gesprächen vorkommt, nicht nur in Lernmaterialien. Zum anderen übst du, komplexe Geschichten strukturiert zu folgen, indem du Details wie Handlungen, Emotionen und Konsequenzen auffängst. Das ist ideal, um dein Hörverständnis und gleichzeitig dein eigenes Erzählen zu verbessern.

Horch auf diese Klänge

Achte besonders auf verbundene Redeweise im Video. Der Sprecher nutzt z. B. Reduktionen wie "I'm" statt "I am" oder "it's" statt "it is", die in der gesprochenen Sprache alltäglich sind. Auch Linkungen wie "kind of" oder "lots of" klingen oft flüssiger, als man sie schreibt – höre, wie die Wörter ineinander übergehen. Diese Details machen es einfacher, echten Englisch zu verstehen und zu sprechen. Nutze das Video, um diese Muster zu erkennen und später selbst anzuwenden.

Spreche wie ein Native

Um den Rhythmus und die Betonung des Sprechers zu kopieren, probiere Shadow Speech (auch "Shadowspeak" genannt). Das bedeutet: Du wiederholst die Sätze direkt nach dem Sprecher, so schnell wie möglich. Achte darauf, welche Wörter er betont – z. B. "extremely clumsy" oder "broken nose" – und wie er Pausen macht, um Emotionen zu transportieren. So lernst du nicht nur die Aussprache, sondern auch die Natürlichkeit des Englischen. Übe regelmäßig mit Videos wie diesem, um dein Englisch sprechen zu verbessern und deine Aussprache zu verfeinern. Englisch lernen mit Videos ist eine bewährte Methode, um flüssiger und selbstsicherer zu werden.

Mit diesen Tipps wirst du nicht nur das Hörverständnis steigern, sondern auch dein Sprechen näher an das eines Native Speakers heranführen. Probier's aus – Shadow Speech ist der Schlüssel zu einer natürlichen Aussprache!

Grammatik in diesem Video

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

StrukturIm Video
Passiv be + Partizip Perfekt – wichtig ist, was geschieht, nicht wer es tutwere broken · was broken · was knocked
Present Perfect have/has + Partizip Perfekt – eine vergangene Handlung, die jetzt noch wichtig isthave ruined · have had · It's been
Relativsätze who / which + Satz – eine Zusatzinformation über eine Person oder Sacheperson who has · teenager which is · person who never
Möglichkeit mit „might / may“ might/may + Verb – etwas ist möglich, aber nicht sichermight smash · might fall

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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