Shadowing-Übung: Matthew Dicks at The Moth GrandSLAM Championship | A Masterclass in Storytelling - Englisch Sprechen Lernen mit Video

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Please welcome Matthew Dix to the stage.
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Thank you.
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I'm standing on the playground behind my school.
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It's recess duty.
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When my son was very little, he asked me, is recess duty like duty?
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Like poop?
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And I said, yeah, actually, it is just like that.
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And I sent him away.
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I am sure that conversation created enormous problems for him at some point in his life, but it was an accurate description of recess duty.
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I waste my precious time putting band-aids on cuts that are not cuts, pretending to listen to stories about cousins' birthday parties,
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and telling mean children that they have no one to play with because they are mean.
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And so I'm standing there doing all of these things when I hear these four words that strike fear into my heart.
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Never have I ever.
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And I look over and I see three of my students, 10-year-old girls, on the sidewalk, and apparently they are playing this game.
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So now I am running, because I have played Never Have I Ever.
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I understand the dynamics of this game.
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This is not a benevolent game where we acquire knowledge about our friends.
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This is social combat.
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This is...
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We extract information from foolish children, and then we sharpen it, and we stab them with it later on.
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So I'm running over.
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Like 1985, Jimbo Powers' birthday party.
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Melissa says, Matt, never have you ever kissed someone?
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And immediately I have to figure out, do I tell the truth?
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Basically what I'm wondering is, is everyone else in this room kissed somebody?
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Because if so, now I have to lie and say yes, and I have to prepare myself for the questions that will come, which will undoubtedly be, who did you kiss?
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And since no one has ever kissed me in my school, and probably never will, I have to make up a story about the time my parents took me to the far-flung land of or Pawtucket,
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Rhode Island, or Woburn, and I was in a candy store, and I had a tryst by a licorice stand with a girl.
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A story that did not work.
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A kid once asked me, never have you ever gone to third base?
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And I knew it wasn't about baseball, but that is all I knew about that question.
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So I am running to these girls, and as I get close, I hear one of them say, never have I ever gone to bed without brushing my teeth.
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And I sort of grind to a halt, because this is not 1985 sex and drugs, never have I ever.
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This is like Paw Patrol Never Have I Ever.
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It's fine.
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There's nothing wrong here.
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And as I turn to walk away, the girls say, Mr. Dix, you want to play Never Have I Ever?
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And they explain to me that their game's a competition.
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They stand on the sidewalk, and if you've never, ever done something, you take a step forward, and whoever gets to the bench first wins.
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And now I'm all in, because I love competition.
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I love to crush small children in games
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that are utterly meaningless They're utterly meaningless so I can feel better about myself as a human being.
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So I'm standing there on the line with the girls and the first girl says, never have I ever climbed a mountain.
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And all three of them step forward.
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I'm like, are you kidding me?
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You're 10 and you've never gone up a mountain?
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Like no lie, when I'm 12 I get lost in the white mountains of New Hampshire for two days and nobody cares including me.
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They've never climbed a mountain before?
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And the next girl says, never have I ever gone to bed without a nightlight on.
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And I think, oh my god, lady, don't say that, because we're all going to make fun of you for it.
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And then I realize, oh my god, I'm the only one who's going to make fun of her for this.
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Like this group of children that I'm taking care of, they're so different than I was.
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Like they've taken all their daggers and put them away.
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They're sweet.
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They're accepting.
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It's not all good.
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No, no, it's not all good.
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Like they, this generation of children can't get ten feet from a water
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bottle without being They're the most hydrated group of kids I've ever met in my entire life.
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It is a nightmare.
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They can't go through my math lessons without a squishy thing or a stuffed animal.
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I had a girl last week in my math lesson with a blanket wrapped around her.
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I said, what's up with the blanket?
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She said, it makes me happy during math.
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I said, math isn't happy.
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It's awful.
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It's hard.
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It's onerous.
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I would have loved to have a water bottle and a blanket
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and a stuffed animal during math when I was a kid.
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All I had was angst and despair.
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It made me who I am.
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I can't stand these kids.
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And I'm losing the game because I have done everything and they've done nothing.
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So they're nine steps ahead of me.
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And then the tallest girl says, never have I ever met my father's expectations.
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And I think that is nonsense because I know your fathers.
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They're all fine men.
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What are you talking about?
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And one of the girls says, well, I'm a swimmer and when I get a PR in the pool and I come out, my dad's happy for me.
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But then he says, but just imagine how much better you could have been
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if you had nailed the kick turn on the third lap.
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And the next girl says, well, I mastered my multiplication facts last month, and when I came home to my dad, he said, that's great, but why didn't you do it in October when you were supposed to?
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And the third one says, my dad always tells me how I can be better, and I know he does it because he loves me, but it never feels like love.
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And now I'm panicking, I'm thinking, what about my children, Charlie and Clara?
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Have I ever told them that they've met my expectations?
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They never have.
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I mean, they don't even come close.
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But how have I at least fooled them into believing that they occasionally meet my expectations?
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And so as I'm panicking about this situation, the tall girl says, Mr. Dix, have you ever met your father's expectations?
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And I catch for a minute.
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I don't know what to say.
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But then I know exactly what to say, because I've been working with kids for 25 years as a teacher, and I know they're more capable than we all know.
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And so I tell her, I say, my father left when I was seven and he never came back.
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And so I don't think he ever had expectations for me.
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And three hands reach out and they grab my wrist and they pull me forward.
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And that girl says, that counts, Mr. Dix.
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And then she tells me, I'm sorry your father abandoned you when you were a kid.
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And it is crazy, but from the age of 7 to 52,
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I have basically been waiting for my father to come back.
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And it is not until I'm on a sidewalk with a 10-year-old girl
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that I understand for the first time that he is not coming back.
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It is the first time I have ever in my life heard the word abandoned used to describe what happened to me.
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And it is the first time ever that a human being has ever said to me, I'm sorry that happened to you.
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My friends have said, that sucked, it was terrible.
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I know that my wife hates what happened to me as a boy.
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But that 10-year-old girl, she was the first person to tell me, I am sorry for what happened to you when you were seven.
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When people ask me today why I am still a public school teacher after 25 years, with all of the unspeakable,
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ridiculous, nonsensical, impossible things that school teachers go through today,
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and with, quite honestly, all the other opportunities I have to leave a classroom and go do other things with my life,
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my answer is always immediate and simple.
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I love kids, but far more important than that,
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kids understand me, and they speak truth to me, and they love me.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Matthew Dix.

Kontext & Hintergrund

Matthew Dicks ist ein talentierter Geschichtenerzähler, der im Rahmen seiner Aufführung beim Moth GrandSLAM Championship einen fesselnden Einblick in die Herausforderungen des Lebens als Lehrer gibt. In seinem Vortrag beschreibt er humorvoll, wie er mit den Interaktionen seiner Schüler umgeht, insbesondere mit dem Spiel "Never Have I Ever". Diese Geschichten sind nicht nur unterhaltsam, sondern bieten auch wertvolle Lektionen in Bezug auf soziale Dynamiken und Selbstwahrnehmung, die für das persönliche Wachstum und die zwischenmenschliche Kommunikation wichtig sind. Für Englischlernende kann dieser Kontext nicht nur die kulturelle Perspektive erweitern, sondern auch eine authentische Sprachpraxis bieten.

Die 5 besten Phrasen für die tägliche Kommunikation

  • „Never have I ever“ – Ein häufiger Satz, der in sozialen Spielen verwendet wird, um Geheimnisse zu entdecken.
  • „Have you ever...?“ – Eine Frage, um persönliche Erfahrungen auszutauschen und Gespräche zu fördern.
  • „I have to figure out“ – Nützlich, um Entscheidungen über das Teilen von Informationen zu treffen.
  • „This is not about baseball“ – Ein witziger Kommentar, um Missverständnisse aufzulösen.
  • „I love competition“ – Eine Möglichkeit, Begeisterung für Wettbewerbe auszudrücken und Spannung zu erzeugen.

Schritt-für-Schritt Shadowing-Anleitung

Um die Inhalte dieses Videos effektiv zu nutzen und Ihr Englisch mit einer shadow speech Übung zu verbessern, befolgen Sie diese Anleitung:

  1. Video anschauen: Sehen Sie sich das Video von Matthew Dicks an und hören Sie genau zu, um den Kontext und den Tonfall zu erfassen.
  2. Wichtige Phrasen herausfiltern: Markieren Sie die oben genannten Phrasen und notieren Sie deren Bedeutungen.
  3. Nachsprechen: Spielen Sie die Abschnitte des Videos erneut ab und versuchen Sie, den Sprecher zu imitieren. Achten Sie auf Intonation und Aussprache – nutzen Sie Englisch lernen mit YouTube für zusätzliche Ressourcen.
  4. Wiederholung: Wiederholen Sie diese Übung regelmäßig, um Ihre Sprachfähigkeiten zu festigen und neue Vokabeln zu integrieren.
  5. Feedback einholen: Nutzen Sie Shadowing-Sites oder Sprachpartner, um Feedback zu Ihrer Aussprache und Ihrem Sprachfluss zu erhalten.

Durch die Methode des Englisch Shadowing können Sie nicht nur Ihre Aussprache verbessern, sondern auch Ihre Hörverständnisfähigkeiten ausbauen. Nutzen Sie diese Techniken, um selbstbewusst in Gesprächen zu werden und fließend Englisch zu sprechen.

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.