Shadowing-Übung: Is Trump Using Christianity For His Own Benefit? - Rhett McLaughlin - Englisch Sprechen Lernen mit Video
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some of these ideas are really beautiful, you know, like from a moral standpoint, like the things that Jesus asked you to do,
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being selfless, being service oriented, you know, caring about the poor and the needy, not just being about the,
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your own accumulation of your possessions, recognizing the emptiness in the accumulation of possessions.
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Like these are beautiful ideas that I subscribe to today.
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So I think that, I think part of my interest is this, like, I want to, I want to
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I want to rescue Jesus from the hands of the people are using him for evil.
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Yeah, because they're pretty out of line.
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I mean, Jesus says this, doesn't he?
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You know, there'll be people who come to me saying, Lord, Lord, and I'll say, depart from me, I never knew you.
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And there is an idea that the path is narrow, and it does just seem at times flatly contradictory,
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the attitudes that people have.
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and yet i don't know if it's like a biblical literacy thing
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or or what but when you see like prosperity preachers for example flying around in private jets
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and things and you think i just i don't know how you can read the gospels
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and not have this yeah just jump off the page at
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you have you seen the clip of donald trump asked what his favorite bible verse is i think this is
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i'd rather not get into this it's sort of very personal and they're like really anything jump bad?
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She's like, no, I think it's, I think it's too personal.
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And they say, are you more of a Old Testament guy or a New Testament guy?
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And he goes, I would say probably equal.
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Yeah.
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And by the way, I think by the next time he's asked, you know, what your favorite Bible verse is, he's like, oh, it's, you know, second Corinthians one.
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Right.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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Well, this is the interesting thing about that.
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Uh, I, I, cause I, I want to give like,
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Like, first of all, there are many Christians who are just like buying this idea that like he's actually a Christian, that Trump's actually a Christian, right?
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That is happening.
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But I will give, there's a lot of Christians, I'll give them credit.
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They don't for a second.
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They don't for a second buy that he's a Christian.
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They know that he's using the Christians for his ends.
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but and i know i know many people like this
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but they believe that the things
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that he you know he's a crude tool yes to basically accomplish things
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that are more consistent with the christian worldview yes and
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so it's a little more nuanced and so i understand
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that that's what they think but but then i'm like yeah
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but okay let's talk about let's talk about the things that
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that platform wants to establish that are still very inconsistent with the things, the bulk of the things that Jesus talked about.
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Then one wonders how much that is Christian nationalism as a whole, how much of it is really Christian outside of just being nominally Christian in the way that Trump might be nominally Christian.
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I mean, the one thing that gives me pause for thought is like when he was nearly assassinated,
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he did sort of quite convincingly portray a feeling of spiritual awakening after that.
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I mean, he put it in quite uncomfortable terms about like, well, if you look at that, if you look at how close it was, I saw the graphic of how it went just past my head.
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If you look at that and you're an atheist, you got to start rethinking it.
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And there is this forgetting of Corey Comporatore, who's the firefighter that the bullet eventually went into and killed.
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But I did think if you were nearly assassinated, especially if you've already got this sort of egomania around you, President of the United States type thing,
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to have your head turned at the right moment and avoid assassination,
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I do wonder if maybe that did make him at the very least seriously consider the possibility of divine watch.
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But I don't know even then although i want to grant him
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that that possible space for spiritual growth i don't know if
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that develops into like you know it's easier for a rich man to yeah yeah all of
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that kind of stuff but and
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so yeah it's like a it's a crude a crude tool is as you put it
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and if you just look at the way
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that i one does wonder i always thought of doing like
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skits where you sort of put jesus in the modern day
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and see how he would actually react like the sort of
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this strange juxtaposition of the Christian attitude you're supposed to have and what Jesus was actually all about.
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Because some of his teachings I do think are difficult and maybe inapplicable.
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I had this idea of him walking through central London or something and somebody comes up to him and says, sorry, have you got any change?
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And the disciples would go, sorry, mate, we haven't got any change.
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And he goes, brethren, when one is in need, if you do this to the least of these, you do it to me.
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So it's like, Matthew, grab the person.
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anyway as i was saying and then another person comes up have you got any change mate
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and they're like oh we just go and he's like because one person is in need?
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Because you've helped one?
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Does that lessen the need to help another?
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No, no. Peter, grab your tunic.
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We're going to give it to him.
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And then people just keep sort of coming up.
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And at the end, someone comes up.
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You got any change?
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And Jesus is like, sorry, mate, I haven't got any change.
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Because I do wonder how directly applicable some of these teachings are to the modern world.
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And so it's kind of easy to say, you know, Christian nationalism isn't Christian.
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Jesus would never abide by Trump.
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But it's difficult to imagine what Jesus would say about the presidency of a transcontinental republic in general anyway.
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I always find it very difficult to make those kinds of claims.
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Well, and I think that's one of the reasons that I think this is back to the idea of like, why is it so fascinating?
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Because when you start, when you really appreciate the context for what this person was operating in,
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You know, and you think about that for every scripture, the idea that like, oh, this makes so much more sense,
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not as some prophecy for current times,
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but for, it was a rhetorical exercise for what they were dealing with.
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And it's just, it's, to me, it becomes, the Bible actually becomes more meaningful in one sense.
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Maybe not in like a ultimate, ultimate meaning way, but in a,
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the way that we actually find and build meaning as humans based on how we interact with our circumstances and our, how our values interact with our circumstances.
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Like that's what these biblical writers were doing all along.
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And suddenly it just, it kind of comes alive to me.
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Like I always, I always thought, I don't understand these biblical scholars who aren't Christians.
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Like it was fascinating.
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Like you study this for a living and you don't believe it, But now I get it.
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Yeah.
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I get it.
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You know, not only because it was so personal to me and foundational to who I am, but because it really is this story of the human struggle to figure out what the hell is going on.
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Yeah.
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Context is always key with any kind of art and in a way the gospels can be considered like a, they're not art per se, but the sort of artistic elements,
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the beauty, the truth, the poetry, the, the meaning that jumps out.
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A lot of that has got to do with contextualizing.
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a piece of art like
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so much of it is right has has got to do with
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that um that's something i clocked
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when i you know you know the book ways of seeing by john berger
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or is it burger i don't know i haven't read it
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but he um he's got this tv show as well
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that he did
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and um one of the things he does is he shows this picture he says just look at this picture
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and you know see what you think about it
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and then turn the page and you turn over the page
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and it's the same picture
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but it's got a caption now it says this is the
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last painting van goff made before he killed himself it's like how has
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that changed the way that you interact with this painting
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and some people want to say it kind of shouldn't know the art should stand for itself
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but it clearly does context plays a massive massive part and
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when you consider the first century jewish context in
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which jesus is is working so many of his claims are transformed
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and this is something christians always want to do
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when it comes to things like uh his claims to divinity
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and stuff it's like no you have to understand to a
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jew at the time this would have been a really significant thing right say.
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Claiming to be the Lord of the Sabbath would have been huge.
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Invoking the I am statement would have been absolutely massive.
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But I think we do need to do that writ large.
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And maybe some of the good stuff needs to be contextualized as well as the bad stuff.
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Yeah.
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Because they're willing to jump on it.
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If you say, what about what the Bible said?
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What about when Paul's talking about women or slavery in the Old Testament?
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It's like, oh, it's context, context, context.
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That doesn't apply today.
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It's totally different.
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You've got to understand there's the cult of artemis
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and women were getting power that they shouldn't have
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and they were bond servants okay
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but with a lot of the rest of the stuff it's
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just quite flatly like yeah the bible gives us a guide
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as how to live today it's eternal truth like what do
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you mean you need to reinterpret it what are you talking about
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and i just kind of think we should look for a bit more consistency on
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that front maybe if you enjoyed
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Wortschatz und Sprechhinweise zu dieser Lektion
Dieses Video enthält 145 Sätze und 1816 Wörter zum Nachsprechen. Der gesprochene Teil dauert 9:13. Der Sprecher spricht schnell, etwa 197 Wörter pro Minute – rechne mit verbundenen und verkürzten Lauten. 86 % der Wörter gehören zu den 3.000 häufigsten im Englischen; den Rest solltest du dir vor dem Üben ansehen.
Wichtiger Wortschatz in diesem Video
15 lernenswerte Wörter aus dem Video, mit Aussprache und Bedeutung:
| Wort | Aussprache | Bedeutung |
|---|---|---|
| interact Verb | /ɪn.təˈɹækt/ | interagieren |
| crude Adjektiv | /kɹuːd/ | roh |
| biblical Adjektiv | /ˈbɪblɪkəl/ | biblisch |
| spiritual Adjektiv | /ˈspɪɹɪt͡ʃuəl/ | geistig |
| possession Substantiv | /pəˈzɛʃn̩/ | Besessenheit |
| clip Substantiv | /klɪp/ | Klips, Clips |
| gospel Substantiv | /ˈɡɑspəl/ | Evangelium |
| verse Substantiv | /ˈvɝs/ | Vers |
| subscribe Verb | /səbˈskɹaɪb/ | abonnieren |
| nationalism Substantiv | /ˈnæʃ(ə)nəˌlɪzəm/ | Nationalismus |
| circumstance Substantiv | /ˈsɝ.kəmˌstæns/ | Umstand |
| accumulation Substantiv | /əˌkjuːm.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/ | Anhäufung |
| consistent Adjektiv | /kənˈsɪs.tənt/ | beständig, beharrlich |
| rescue Verb | /ˈɹɛs.kjuː/ | retten, bergen |
| element Substantiv | /ˈɛləmənt/ | Element |
Phrasal Verbs, die du hören wirst
| Wort | Bedeutung |
|---|---|
| come up Verb | erscheinen |
| figure out Verb | herausfinden |
| jump out Verb | vorspringen |
| turn over Verb | umdrehen |
Grammatik in diesem Video
Die Strukturen, die der Sprecher am häufigsten verwendet, mit den genauen Worten aus dem Video:
| Struktur | Im Video |
|---|---|
| Passiv be + Partizip Perfekt – wichtig ist, was geschieht, nicht wer es tut | was nearly assassinated · were nearly assassinated · can be considered |
| Present Perfect have/has + Partizip Perfekt – eine vergangene Handlung, die jetzt noch wichtig ist | you've helped · haven't read |
Aussprache, auf die du achten solltest
Der Sprecher verwendet 35 Kurzformen und abgeschwächte Formen, zum Beispiel don't, they're, haven't. Sprich sie in der kurzen Form, so wie du sie hörst.
- Die „th“-Laute: atheist /ˈeɪ.θi.ɪst/, brethren /ˈbɹɛðɹən/, rethink /ɹiːˈθɪŋk/
- Die Laute „sh“ und „zh“: possession /pəˈzɛʃn̩/, nationalism /ˈnæʃ(ə)nəˌlɪzəm/, accumulation /əˌkjuːm.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/, establish /ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ/, accomplish /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ/
- Lange Wörter – auf die Betonung achten: nationalism /ˈnæʃ(ə)nəˌlɪzəm/, accumulation /əˌkjuːm.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/, uncomfortable /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/, presidency /ˈpɹɛzɪdənsi/, applicable /əˈplɪk.ə.bəl/
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- Nimm dich auf und vergleiche mit dem Original; achte dabei auf Wörter wie interact, crude, biblical.
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.