Shadowing-Übung: Speaking about Jobs in English for Advanced English Conversation - Englisch Sprechen Lernen mit Video
Lektion wird erstellt...
1
What's your job?
2
What do you do in life?
3
How do you make money?
4
How do you afford to live in that city?
5
How do you pay your bills?
6
Hold up, hold up!
7
While these sentences are grammatically correct, pragmatically speaking, they can be seen as nosy or even rude.
8
So today, I'm going to teach you much better ways to ask this question, which are pragmatically correct.
9
Hi, Advanced English Learners!
10
Mary Daphne here, and today we are talking about how to ask someone about their job.
11
As with most things in English, we have several ways of asking that question.
12
So, we don't say, what's your job?
13
We say things like, what line of work are you in?
14
What line of work are you in?
15
What do you do for a living?
16
What do you do for a living?
17
How do you make a living?
18
How do you make a living?
19
These questions are a bit more formal and can be used
20
when you don't know the person very well or if you are in a more professional context.
21
If you're speaking to someone close in age, more like a peer, a classmate, a colleague, or someone you think you'll be coming friends with,
22
you can ask this question the following ways.
23
So, what do you do?
24
What do you do?
25
It's kind of fun to say, right?
26
What do you do?
27
With this, it's implied that you're talking about work.
28
The more complete version of this question would be, so what do you do for a living?
29
So asked in the short way, so what do you do is completely fine.
30
They will understand what you are getting at.
31
Asking, so what do you do for fun is about a person's hobbies and interests.
32
So that is not about work.
33
You might also say when you're asking about their job, how do you spend your days?
34
How do you spend your days?
35
What are you working on at the moment?
36
What are you working on at the moment?
37
Or you can just say, what are you working on?
38
You might have also heard the term side hustle.
39
A side hustle is a passion project that can potentially turn into an income stream or something more full -time.
40
A side hustle is something that you work on, on the side, in addition to your main job.
41
So this could be something like a freelance gig,
42
starting a YouTube channel, creating crafts or handmade goods and then selling them online, like in a Netsy shop,
43
a lot of entrepreneurs start their companies as side hustles.
44
They pour their heart and soul into those passion projects and they make their living with their job.
45
If the side hustle is successful, it can become something more full -time and replace their job.
46
So how do you ask someone about a side hustle?
47
You can say, do you have a side hustle?
48
Do you have a side hustle?
49
What's your side hustle?
50
What's your side hustle?
51
Are you working on any passion projects right now?
52
Are you working on any passion projects right now?
53
Working on anything exciting at the moment?
54
Working on anything exciting at the moment?
55
So there you have it, advanced English learners.
56
As you can see, there are quite a few ways to ask someone what they do for their job
57
and what they do for their side hustle.
58
The next time you want to know someone's job, you'll have the right way to ask them that without seeming pushy, rude, or nosy.
59
Thank you so much for joining me for this lesson
60
and remember to subscribe for more advanced English lessons to improve your fluency, your confidence, and your clarity in English.
61
I will see you next time.
62
Bye for now.
Über diese Lektion
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.