Shadowing-Übung: Oprah Winfrey: The Secret of My Success - Englisch Sprechen Lernen mit Video

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My life is fueled by my being.
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Yep.
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And the being fuels the doing.
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So I come from a centered place.
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I come from a focused place.
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I come from compassion.
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It's just my nature.
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I come from a willingness to understand and to be understood.
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Right.
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And I come from wanting to, to, to connect.
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I mean, the secret of that show for 25 years is that people could see themselves in me.
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All over the world, they could see themselves in me.
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And even as I became more and more financially successful, which was a big surprise to me,
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I was like, oh my God, this is so exciting.
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You mean you got more than that 30,000?
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I got more than 30,000 by the time I was 30.
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So, so my, but what I realized is through the whole process,
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because I'm grounded in my own self, that although I could have more shoes,
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my feet stayed on the ground, although I was wearing better shoes.
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These are kind of cute today too.
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So I could keep my feet on the ground even though I could get more shoes.
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And I could understand, I could understand that it really was because I was grounded.
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I've, I've done the, was doing and continue to this day to do the consciousness work.
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I work at staying awake.
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And being awakened is just another word for spirituality, but spirituality throws people off and they think you mean religion.
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When I was hiring people for my company for own, looking for presidents, when people would come in, I'd say, tell me what is your spiritual practice?
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And literally, people would go, well, I'm not religious.
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I said, I didn't ask you about your religion.
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I asked you what's your spiritual practice.
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What do you do to take care of yourself?
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What do you do to keep yourself centered?
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What do you do to the, and one woman started crying.
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You know that's not the person.
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Right?
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That's a sign.
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That's a sign.
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So, so to answer your question, everything is fueled that comes from me really wanting to be a better person on Earth.
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And this is what I know to be true.
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The reason why the show worked is because I understood that that audience,
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my viewers, the people who watched us every day and would come and just like you all did, get tickets and they would come with their family.
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You all just came across campus, but that's good too.
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But people would come from all over the world just to be there with their aunts
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and their mothers and they'd come with their cousins and there'd be a few men in there going, what the hell
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or saying well I went to Oprah with you I went
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to Oprah at all at least get me clear for three
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or four weeks I went to Oprah with you I had such regard for
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that and I just had a conversation with John Mackey who runs Whole Foods
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and has written this fabulous book you should get it called conscious capitalism.
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And he was talking about how the investment in the stakeholders, the people who you are serving,
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that connection between the people who you're trying to serve
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and sell to is equally as important as the people who you're buying from, equally as important as the people who are, you know, supporting you financially,
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as your stockholders if you are, you know, you know, a public company.
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So I always understood that there really was no difference between me and the audience.
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At times I might have had better shoes, but at the core, the core of, of, of what really matters,
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that we are the same.
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And you know how I know that?
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Because all of us are seeking the same thing.
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You're here at this fabulous school and we'll go out into the world
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and each pursue based upon what you believe your talents are, what your skills are, are,
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maybe your gifts are, but you're seeking the same thing.
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Everybody wants to fulfill the highest, truest expression of yourself as a human being.
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That's what you're looking for.
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The highest, truest expression of yourself as a human being.
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And because I understand that, I understand that if you're working in a bakery and that's where you want to be, and that may be the,
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that may be what you've always wanted to do is to bake pies for people
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or bake cakes for people or to offer your gift, then, then that's, that's for you.
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And there's no difference between you and me, except that's how, that's your platform.
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That's your show every day.
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So my understanding of that has allowed me to, you know, to reach everyone.
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And, and there's no way that you wouldn't, because that's, that's what I truly feel.

Warum mit diesem Video sprechen üben?

Das Üben des Sprechens mit Videos wie "Oprah Winfrey: Das Geheimnis meines Erfolgs" bietet eine hervorragende Möglichkeit, Ihre Englischkenntnisse zu verbessern. Durch das Nachahmen ihrer Sprechweise können Sie nicht nur Ihre eigene Aussprache verfeinern, sondern auch Ihr Hörverständnis stärken. In diesem Video spricht Oprah über persönliche Erfahrungen, die sowohl inspirierend als auch lehrreich sind. Diese Art des shadowing oder shadow speech ermöglicht es Ihnen, sich in realistische Gesprächssituationen einzufügen. Das Besondere an Oprahs Art zu sprechen ist, dass sie Emotionen und verständliche Ausdrucksweisen verwendet, die es den Zuhörern erleichtern, sich mit ihrem Inhalt zu identifizieren.

Grammatik & Ausdrücke im Kontext

In diesem Video verwendet Oprah mehrere Schlüsselausdrücke, die für das Verstehen und die Anwendung im Alltag wichtig sind:

  • „Ich komme von einem Ort des Mitgefühls“ – Hier wird die Wichtigkeit von Empathie betont, was in vielen Gesprächen hilfreich sein kann.
  • „Ich wollte mich mit Menschen verbinden“ – Diese Aussage zeigt das Bedürfnis nach zwischenmenschlichen Beziehungen und ist ein häufiger Ausdruck im Englischen.
  • „Ich bin geerdet“ – Ein Ausdruck, der darauf hinweist, dass man in sich selbst stabil ist, was für alle, die ihre Englische Aussprache verbessern wollen, von Bedeutung ist.
  • „Ich arbeite daran, wach zu bleiben“ – Der Fokus auf persönliches Wachstum ist ein zentraler Gesprächspunkt, den man in verschiedenen Kontexten verwenden kann.

Häufige Aussprachefallen

Bei der Nachahmung von Oprah kann es einige herausfordernde Wörter und Ausdrücke geben:

  • „Compassion“ – Achten Sie darauf, den „c“ klar auszusprechen und das „sch“ sanft zu betonen.
  • „Grounded“ – Dies kann leicht als „gron-did“ ausgesprochen werden, während die korrekte Aussprache „graund-id“ ist.
  • „Spirituality“ – Bei dem Wort kann der Rhythmus schwierig sein. Üben Sie, die Silben richtig zu betonen.

Indem Sie diese Worte in die Praxis umsetzen und sich auf das shadow speak konzentrieren, haben Sie die Möglichkeit, Ihre Sprechfähigkeit deutlich zu verbessern und sich in verschiedenen Gesprächssituationen sicherer zu fühlen.

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.