Shadowing-Übung: Shadowing Practice With Me! 🇺🇸 - Englisch Sprechen Lernen mit Video

Hello everyone!

I thought it was about time for another Shadowing Practice video since

so many of you have been requesting more in the comments, so I'll add this one to the playlist as well.

Specifically, you've been asking about when to drop the T's

and D's at the ends of words and and when to link them to the word that comes after.

So I'm going to specifically point those moments out to you in today's shadowing practice.

So let's jump right in.

And don't forget to like this video and subscribe to my channel so you don't miss any of my future videos.

English made easy with Claire.

So first, I'm going to read through this story slowly, and you can repeat after me.

And I will, of course, point out some pronunciation tips along the way.

And then I'll read through the story a little faster, without stopping, and you can shadow me.

So say it with me.

Ready?

Lately, I've been trying to eat healthy.

You'll notice that I pronounced trying to as try -na.

Try -na.

I've been trying to eat healthy.

It's like try na, right?

So we don't always have to pronounce the ing endings of words.

And of course, we also could drop the T at the beginning of to and pronounce to with a schwa sound,

which hopefully you have come across before to, to, to eat healthy instead of to eat healthy.

So yeah, here we can put trying to link it all together and say, try na, try na.

Lately, I've been trying to eat healthy.

So I decided to make a green smoothie with kale, chia seeds, yogurt, and lots of fruit.

So, I decided to make a green smoothie with kale, chia seeds, yogurt, and lots of fruit.

Decided to becomes decided to.

Decided to.

Okay, so the D ending could be described as linked with the word to,

or you could think of it as dropping the D sound here.

Decided to.

Decided to make a green smoothie.

So I decided to make a green smoothie with kale, chia seeds, yogurt, and lots of fruit.

Here, lots of fruit.

You'll notice that we have the V ending of of and then the F beginning of fruit.

Well, what ends up happening is we drop the F in of.

So the sound, the voiced sound gets completely dropped.

Lots of fruit, lots of fruit.

And also fruit, the T at the end, you could drop that as well.

A lot of US native speakers will completely drop that T ending.

Lots of fruit.

I shouldn't have added garlic.

Okay, here we have shouldn't have, and it becomes in very rapid speech, shouldn't.

Shouldn't.

I shouldn't have added garlic.

I don't know why I did it.

I don't know.

becomes I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know why I did it.

I think I read somewhere it boosts immunity.

Here we have the word boosts,

which a lot of you might find tricky to pronounce because we have an S -T sound followed by the S, boosts.

But in rapid natural speech,

we don't actually always pronounce T -S -S followed by an S.

Instead, it ends up sounding like boosts.

Boosts immunity.

I think I read somewhere it boosts immunity.

Anyway, I blended it.

Took one sip.

Anyway, I blended it, took one sip, blended it.

Link the D sound at the end of blended to the beginning of the word it.

You can drop the T at the end of it.

It becomes it and not it.

You can safely drop the T's at the ends of words.

I blended it.

Right?

The dit, dit, dit.

The D aligns with the word it.

I blended it.

took one sip and immediately regretted it.

Regretted it.

And immediately regretted it.

This one's similar to blended it.

The double T in the middle of these two vowels in the word regretted sound like Ds,

just like in the word blended.

But blended actually has a D.

Here you see double T.

But when we have a T or double T in between two vowels, it sounds like a D sound.

Regretted it.

And then you can put the end D of regretted over onto the word it.

Regretted it.

I regretted it.

I tried to drink some more, but I just couldn't.

Tried to becomes try to.

In very rapid speech, if we have this ed ending like tried, often that gets dropped completely.

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The d gets dropped.

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So here's another case.

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where you would drop the d ending.

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I tried to, I tried to, I tried to, I tried to drink some more.

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The m at the end of some and the m at the beginning of more gets squished together.

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So you can just say some more, some more, some more, but I just couldn't, but I just couldn't.

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So the t at the end of just gets dropped and becomes just.

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The N apostrophe T sound at the ends of words, if you ever see this at the end of a word, it's pronounced n.

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A very nasal n sound.

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Couldn't.

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Couldn't.

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But I just couldn't.

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I ended up throwing the whole thing away.

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I ended up throwing the whole thing away.

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Again, we can link the last D of ended to the word up.

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Ended up.

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Ended up.

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Ended up.

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I ended up throwing the whole thing away.

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I don't often throw food away, but I can't force myself to eat something I don't like.

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I don't often throw food away, but I can't force myself to eat something I don't like.

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Okay, here we have the word often, which can be pronounced both with the T and without.

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In very rapid speech, the T does get dropped because it's a T in the middle of a word,

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but both ways to pronounce the word are correct.

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You could either say, I don't often throw food away, or I don't often throw food away.

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Often.

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Often.

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But I can't force myself.

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But I can't.

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Can't.

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Now, this one's tricky because a lot of non -native speakers can't tell the difference between can and can't.

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Because in very rapid speech, the T ends up getting dropped.

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It's the same, I already mentioned, n apostrophe t ending.

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It's very short and abrupt.

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Can't.

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Can't.

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Can't.

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As opposed to the word can,

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which sounds like can, can, can in rapid speech.

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So we have can, can't. Can.

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can't.

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And I'm doing the thumbs down to signal that I'm saying the word can't, right?

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Not that it's wrong.

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So it's similar to that abrupt ending of couldn't, can't.

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I can't force myself to eat something I don't like.

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And now we have the word don't.

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We also have the N apostrophe T ending don't,

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don't, don't like, don't like.

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Next time, I'll just have my usual peanut butter on toast.

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Next time, I'll just have my usual peanut butter on toast.

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And last thing I'll point out here is next time.

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So we don't pronounce both T's.

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Next time.

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In rapid speech, we don't need them both.

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So we can link these words next time.

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Next time.

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Next time, I'll just have my usual peanut butter on toast.

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Okay, now I'm going to read through the whole story without stopping, and this time you are going to shadow me.

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So you're going to say it with me.

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Ready?

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Lately, I've been trying to eat healthy.

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So I decided to make a green smoothie with kale,

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chia seeds, yogurt, and lots of fruit.

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I shouldn't have added garlic.

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I don't know why I did it.

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I think I read somewhere it boosts immunity.

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Anyway, I blended it, took one sip, and immediately regretted it.

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I tried to drink some more, but I just couldn't.

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I ended up throwing the whole thing away.

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I don't often throw food away, but I can't force myself to eat something I don't like.

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Next time, I'll just have my usual peanut butter on toast.

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All right guys, I hope that video was helpful.

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Let me know in the comments what you think

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or maybe what you would like me to specifically cover in next video's shadowing practice.

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Don't forget to like the video, subscribe, share it with a friend who might find it useful, and I'll see you next time.

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Bye for now!

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I'm going to make a little bit more of a little bit more.

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Wortschatz und Sprechhinweise zu dieser Lektion

Dieses Video enthält 177 Sätze und 1480 Wörter zum Nachsprechen. Der gesprochene Teil dauert 14:33. Der Sprecher spricht langsam, etwa 102 Wörter pro Minute, sodass genug Zeit bleibt, jeden Laut nachzuahmen. Nur 78 % der Wörter gehören zu den 3.000 häufigsten im Englischen, der Wortschatz ist also anspruchsvoll.

Wichtiger Wortschatz in diesem Video

15 weniger häufige Wörter aus dem Video, mit Aussprache und Bedeutung:

blend /blɛnd/ (Verb) — mischen, mixen. To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other.
regret /ɹɪˈɡɹɛt/ (Verb) — bedauern, bereuen. To feel sorry about (a thing that has or has not happened), afterthink: to wish that a thing had not happened, that something else had happened instead.
boost /buːst/ (Verb) — schieben, drücken. To lift or push from behind (one who is endeavoring to climb); to push up.
pronounce /pɹəˈnaʊns/ (Verb) — verkünden. To declare formally, officially or ceremoniously.
rapid /ˈɹæp.ɪd/ (Adjektiv) — schnell. Very swift or quick.
immunity /ɪˈmjuːnəti/ (Substantiv) — Immunität. Protective resistance against disease.
shadow /ˈʃædəʊ̯/ (Substantiv) — Schatten. A dark image projected onto a surface where light (or other radiation) is blocked by the shade of an object.
butter /ˈbʌtɚ/ (Substantiv) — Butter, Anke. A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk).
seed /siːd/ (Substantiv) — Samen, Saat. Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.
toast /toʊst/ (Substantiv) — Toast, Röstbrot. Bread that has been toasted (cooked lightly by browning).
garlic /ˈɡɑɹlɪk/ (Substantiv) — Knoblauch. A plant, Allium sativum, related to the onion, having a pungent bulb much used in cooking.
peanut /ˈpiˌnʌt/ (Substantiv) — Erdnuss. A legume resembling a nut, the fruit of the plant Arachis hypogaea, native to South America.
yogurt /ˈjɒɡ.ət/ (Substantiv) — Joghurt. A milk-based product stiffened by a bacterium-aided curdling process, and sometimes mixed with fruit or other flavoring.
subscribe /səbˈskɹaɪb/ (Verb) — abonnieren. To write (one’s name) at the bottom of a document; to sign (one's name).
tricky /ˈtɹɪk.i/ (Adjektiv) — schwierig, heikel. Hard to deal with, complicated.

Phrasal Verbs, die du hören wirst

end up (Verb) — sich herausstellen, am Ende irgendwo / etwas sein. To bring to a conclusion.
followed by — gefolgt von. And then, and after that.
point out (Verb) — hinweisen. To identify among a group of similar subjects, or in a scene where the subject might not be readily seen or noticed, with a gesture of the body.
come across (Verb) — wirken, vorkommen. To change sides; to cross over to work for the opposition.
come after (Verb) — nachstellen. To pursue or follow; to pursue with hostile intent.

Aussprache, auf die du achten solltest

Der Sprecher verwendet 85 Kurzformen und abgeschwächte Formen, zum Beispiel don't, can't, couldn't. Sprich sie in der kurzen Form, so wie du sie hörst.

Die „th“-Laute: thumb /ˈθʌm/, smoothie /ˈsmuːði/
Die Laute „sh“ und „zh“: shadow /ˈʃædəʊ̯/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, schwa /ʃwɑ/
Lange Wörter – auf die Betonung achten: immunity /ɪˈmjuːnəti/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, apostrophe /əˈpɑs.tɹə.fi/

So übst du mit diesem Video

Höre dir das ganze Video einmal an, ohne zu sprechen, und notiere die Wörter, die du nicht kennst.
Sprich Satz für Satz in normaler Geschwindigkeit nach und wiederhole jeden, bis dein Rhythmus zum Sprecher passt.
Nimm dich auf und vergleiche mit dem Original; achte dabei auf Wörter wie blend, regret, boost.

Grammatik in diesem Video

Die Strukturen, die der Sprecher am häufigsten verwendet, mit den genauen Worten aus dem Video:

Struktur	Im Video
Present Perfect Continuous have/has been + -ing – eine Handlung, die früher begann und noch andauert	have been requesting · you've been asking · I've been trying
Passiv be + Partizip Perfekt – wichtig ist, was geschieht, nicht wer es tut	could be described · can be pronounced
Relativsätze who / which + Satz – eine Zusatzinformation über eine Person oder Sache	often, which can · friend who might
Ratschlag mit „should“ should + Verb – sagen, was eine gute Idee ist	shouldn't have

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.

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Wortschatz und Sprechhinweise zu dieser Lektion

Wichtiger Wortschatz in diesem Video

Phrasal Verbs, die du hören wirst

Aussprache, auf die du achten solltest

So übst du mit diesem Video

Grammatik in diesem Video

Was ist die Shadowing-Technik?