Shadowing-Übung: Repeat-After-Me + Shadowing Practice | Contractions with Would - Englisch Sprechen Lernen mit Video

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Hello and welcome or welcome back to my channel.
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I'm Claire, a native speaker from the United States and an English teacher.
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Today's video is a huge request.
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It's another shadowing practice video.
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And if you are interested in seeing more videos like this, I have a shadowing practice playlist here on my channel.
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So you can find more shadowing practice videos there.
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And there's even more to come because they have been such a big request from you all.
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If this is your first time selecting a shadowing practice video and you're not sure what to expect, it's pretty simple.
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Shadowing helps you improve your pronunciation and intonation and overall fluency of the language by mimicking a native speaker,
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myself, and by doing so it instills in you good pronunciation habits and how to phrase certain things,
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the inflection and tone of our voice when speaking a language
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that is not our own is really important to being understood by other people.
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So it's not so much about getting rid of any accent you may have, although this will help you if you want to achieve an American accent,
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but it's more about improving your overall pronunciation of English so that you can become more fluent,
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you can be understood by other people, and you can feel confident speaking in English yourself.
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For today's shadowing practice I took a request from one of my channel members
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and that is to focus on contractions with the word would.
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So the story
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that we're going to shadow together today has several contractions of pronouns with the word would that you can practice pronouncing.
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If you have a burning request of anything that you want me to focus on in an upcoming shadowing practice, write it in the comments.
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Of course, my channel members get priority reply to their comments.
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So I always read those ones first.
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If you're interested in joining, click the join button below.
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So I'm going to read through a short story that has, as I said, multiple contractions with pronouns and would.
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And after each phrase or sentence, I'm going to pause, give you time to repeat after me.
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I'll take some time to point out certain pronunciations to you, and then we'll shadow the whole story together.
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So you will say it at the same time as me.
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All right, let's get started.
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English made easy with Claire.
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When I was a kid, you repeat.
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When I was a kid,
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my family and I'd, my family and I'd spend every summer at my grandparents' house.
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Spend every summer at my grandparents' house.
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Good.
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So we have our first contraction with would in this sentence.
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I plus would becomes I'd.
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I'd.
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My family and I'd.
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Let's say the whole sentence together.
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So shadow me.
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When I was a kid, my family and I'd spend every summer at my grandparents' house.
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Every morning.
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Every morning.
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We'd wake up early.
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We'd wake up early.
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And my grandpa would make breakfast.
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And my grandpa would make breakfast.
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We have our second contraction with wood here.
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We plus wood becomes weed.
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Weed.
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Now it would also be possible to contract wood with grandpa,
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you could say, and my grandpa'd make breakfast.
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You could actually contract would with a word that's not a pronoun.
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So sometimes you might hear native speakers do that.
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I personally would even in rapid speech, not make this contraction.
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If I was telling a story, I'm pretty sure I would just say my grandpa would make breakfast, but you might hear it, or you might try it for yourself.
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My grandpa'd make breakfast.
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My grandpa'd make breakfast.
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He'd usually make us pancakes.
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He'd usually make us pancakes pancakes.
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Good, so here we have he plus would becomes he'd.
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He'd.
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Okay, let's shadow these two sentences together.
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Here we go.
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Every morning, we'd wake up early, and my grandpa would make breakfast.
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He'd usually make us pancakes.
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After breakfast, after breakfast, we'd go for a walk in the woods with my grandma.
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We'd go for a walk in the woods with my grandma.
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She'd show us different plants and animal tracks.
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She'd show us different plants and animal tracks.
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Good.
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She plus would becomes she'd.
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She'd.
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She'd show us.
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She'd show us.
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Okay, let's shadow this section together.
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After breakfast, we'd go for a walk in the woods with my grandma.
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She'd show us different plants and animal tracks.
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In the evenings, in the evenings,
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we'd sit on the porch, We'd sit on the porch
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And they'd tell us stories until it got dark
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And they'd tell us stories until it got dark
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they plus would becomes they'd.
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They'd.
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Pay attention to when I link words like for example until it got dark.
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Until it got dark.
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That whole phrase you can combine in your brain as one inflection.
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So try and mimic the inflection that I say it in.
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Until it got dark.
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Until it got dark.
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So the T's at the end of it and got become stopped.
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So we don't hear them very much.
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Or it sounds like a D sound maybe.
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Until it got dark.
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Got, got, got dark.
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Especially with the D of dark coming after the word got, you can think of it as dropping that T completely.
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Got dark.
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So we just have that D sound and we've dropped the T.
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But like I said, it might be easier to think in one fluid phrase until it got dark.
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And you can practice that exact inflection.
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And you can do that for a lot of the phrases that I go through on your own.
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You can pay attention to the way I say it and my inflection and mimic that exactly.
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So repeat these parts of the video as many times as you need to really match that.
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Okay, let's say this sentence together, shadow me.
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In the evenings, we'd sit on the porch and they'd tell us stories until it got dark.
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Those summers were some of the best times of my life.
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Those summers were some of the best times of my life.
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I'd give anything to relive just one of those days.
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I'd give anything to relive just one of those days.
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Another phrase you can completely think of linked together is one of those,
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one of those days, one of those days, one of those days.
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So we can link the ending of one to the beginning of of because it starts with a vowel.
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And then we can drop the v sound at the end
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of of as we often do in rapid speech to link with the next word.
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One of those days.
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One of those days.
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And the same goes for the phrase in the sentence before, some of the, some of the.
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We can drop the v sound in of.
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Some of the best times of my life, of my life.
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There we do have the v sound.
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Now I naturally pronounce the v sound in of with the phrase of my life,
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but it wouldn't be unheard of to hear a my life to also drop that sound.
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But basically it wouldn't be wrong if you pronounce that.
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If you said some of the, some of the, and you did pronounce the sound or just one of those,
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one of those days, obviously it wouldn't be wrong.
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But if you do find that sound particularly difficult or you want to achieve this natural linked speech,
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That's definitely one of the sounds you can drop.
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Okay, let's say this final section all together.
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Those summers were some of the best times of my life.
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I'd give anything to relive just one of those days.
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So the contractions with would are pretty simple
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because it's basically just adding a d sound to the end of the pronoun
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and the pronoun keeps its same pronunciation that it would have without the contraction at the end.
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So I becomes I'd, we becomes we'd, he he'd, she she'd, they they'd.
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If you found this video helpful so far, one of the best ways you can support my channel is by clicking the thumbs up button and giving it a like,
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of course subscribing to my channel, or sharing this video with someone else that might find it helpful.
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Now let's say the whole story together without stopping.
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You are going to shadow me.
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When I was a kid, my family and I'd spend every summer at my grandparents' house.
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Every morning, we'd wake up early and my grandpa would make breakfast.
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He'd usually make us pancakes.
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After breakfast, we'd go for a walk in the woods with my grandma.
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She'd show us different plants and animal tracks.
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In the evenings, we'd sit on the porch, and they'd tell us stories until it got dark.
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Those summers were some of the best times of my life.
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I'd give anything to relive just one of those days.
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All right, guys, so repeat
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that part of the video as many times as you like until you feel confident
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and comfortable getting out all those phrases and pronouncing those contractions correctly.
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Let me know in the comments how it went for you and I will see you in the next shadowing practice.
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Bye for now!

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