Shadowing-Übung: Robert De Niro on Acting - Michael Parkinson Interview [1981] - Englisch Sprechen Lernen mit Video

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Alec Guinness once said on the show
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that I asked him what he had to do before he got into a character
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and he said he had to get the walk right.
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Right.
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But you actually, you research them, don't you?
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You go and live like them before you do the part.
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Well, what he says is very true for me too because some actors work cerebrally, some work physically.
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I like to work physically a lot of times it helps me feel like, I mean clothes, putting on certain clothes can give you a feeling of another character,
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which it does to actual people who are characters.
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It helps them identify with the role that they want to play in life, be a businessman or whatever they want to, you know.
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And one thing can give it to you.
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A walk can give it to you.
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Just that one walk, you can play that one thing through a whole play or a movie and it can do it.
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So I agree with that, you know.
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The point I was going to make, of course, was that...
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I do the other two.
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Yeah, I mean, the way when you did Taxi Driver, for instance, I mean, you went and actually worked as a cabbie, didn't you?
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Yeah.
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Did anybody ever recognize you then?
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Only once or twice.
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Once I had an actor who wanted me to take him to the airport and he recognized me.
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So the whole thing was blown because I couldn't, you know, all we could do was talk about acting.
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And I didn't want him to pay me.
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But he insisted on paying me.
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I said, okay, pay me.
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No tip, though.
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And the other time I just, some people got out of the cab and I looked at his eyes.
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You know, you have a plaque with your name on it.
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I turned that around so nobody could see the name, which a lot of cabbies do anyway.
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And I looked him in the eye and the guy recognized me right away and just said, you were in Godfather II, he recognized me from that. And that was it.
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Otherwise, people don't even look at you, they don't know.
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You know, it's like a waiter in a restaurant.
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They don't, you know, you don't exist in a way.
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That was kind of...
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And in New York, New York as well, you actually learned how to play the instrument, the sax, didn't you?
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Although, I mean, you needn't have done because you could have mimed it because the music wasn't yours, was it?
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No, it wasn't mine.
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It was done by George Yeo, except that I wanted to learn the fingering, which I did.
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And I learned how to play everything in the movie.
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It wasn't, the whole point was not to learn how to play the sax to be,
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you know, I could never play it as well as he did or the way Jake fights and so on.
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But the movies are an illusion and the whole point is to be able to recreate this without looking like a fool.
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I didn't want to look like I didn't know what I was doing because when I look at a movie, I see, you know, somebody with the fingering, for example, they're all out of, you know, they're all on step, out of sync.
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Playing a jazz musician.
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And I want to throw it away.
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The point is to learn to throw it away the way a person who actually does know it, they don't over-emphasize it.
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It's like an actor who overacts because they don't really know the situation and don't have the confidence to just be, you know, be straight.
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Robert, you're at the top of the tree now.
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You've got a very strongly tip for a second Academy Award.
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Yet I do know for a certain fact that you don't like the thing about the, the traditional trappings of being a film star, do you?
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In some ways, yeah.
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You don't like them?
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Well, only that...
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as far as the.. being recognized in certain situations, you like a certain amount of privacy.
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And, no, but I enjoy it, don't get me wrong.
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I mean, certain things are drag, but that's part of it.
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I have no complaints whatsoever.
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What about your next project?
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What are you going to do?
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That's called The King of Comedy, and I'm doing it with Jerry Lewis, and Marty Scorsese is going to direct it.
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It's about a guy who kidnaps someone like yourself.
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A chat show host.
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Yeah, to get on the show and do his act, which turns out to be very good.
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You've not been doing any research while we've been sitting here, have you?
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No. No, you haven't?
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No. All right.
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But all success with that, all success too with Raging Bull.
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As I say, I do hope it gets a wider audience because it is a magnificent movie.
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It's not what you call family entertainment of its kind.
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I think it's one of the best movies I've ever seen.
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Robert De Niro.
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Thank you.

Sprachziele für diesen Clip

Dieser Dialog zwischen Robert De Niro und Michael Parkinson eignet sich perfekt, um dein Englisch sprechen üben zu verbessern – insbesondere wenn es um natürliche Flüssigkeit und die Fähigkeit, komplexe Gedanken auszudrücken, geht. Du lernst, wie man in einer Unterhaltung über berufliche Erfahrungen und Motivation spricht, und trainierst, zwischen informellem und halbformellem Ton zu wechseln. Ideal für Shadowing-Übungen, da die Sprache klar und lebendig ist!

Phrasenbank: Wiederverwendbare Ausdrücke

  • "It helps me feel like" – Ein einfacher Weg, um die Wirkung einer Handlung zu beschreiben (z. B. "Das Kleidungsstück hilft mir, mich wie eine Schauspielerin zu fühlen").
  • "The whole point was not to..." – Perfekt, um den wahren Zweck einer Aktion zu klären (z. B. "Der ganze Punkt war nicht, perfekt zu sein, sondern zu lernen").
  • "You don't exist in a way" – Ein bildhafter Ausdruck, um zu beschreiben, dass man unbemerkt bleibt (z. B. "Als Kellnerin in dem Restaurant existierte ich fast nicht").
  • "I want to throw it away" – Nicht wörtlich zu nehmen: Bedeutet, dass etwas so schlecht ist, dass man es nicht weiter betrachten will (z. B. "Wenn Schauspieler falsch fingern, will ich den Film wegschmeißen").

Deine Schwächen beheben: Aussprache und Rhythmus

Der Clip hilft dir, zwei wichtige Aspekte zu verbessern: Zum einen die Intonation bei längeren Sätzen – De Niro spricht oft in komplexen Strukturen, aber seine Stimme bleibt flüssig. Nutze ihn für Englisch Shadowing: Wiederhole seine Sätze direkt nach ihm, um den Rhythmus und die Betonung zu lernen. Zum anderen die natürliche Pause – beobachte, wie er zwischen Gedanken stoppt, ohne die Flüssigkeit zu verlieren. Eine Shadowing Site oder eine Shadow Speech-Übung mit diesem Video wird dir schnell helfen, deinen Sprachfluss zu steigern. Probier's aus – du wirst sehen, wie schnell du Fortschritte machst!

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.