Shadowing-Übung: Stop Scrolling, Start Learning English | English Every Day 🇺🇸 (A2-B2) - Englisch Sprechen Lernen mit Video

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Do you want to learn English?
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Well, you need to practice every day.
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Welcome to 365 Days of English.
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where I'm making a new video for you every day for the next year.
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Watch this video once now.
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and save it to watch it tomorrow and next week and your English will become very, very good, very, very quickly.
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I promise you.
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Today, we are talking about why social media is is bad for you.
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but how you can use it, to learn English.
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Everybody has social media.
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Everybody has TikTok, YouTube, Twitter, Snapchat, whatever.
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Everybody has social media.
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And we spend a lot of time.
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We spend a lot of time every day on social media and it's not good.
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for our health.
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It's bad for our mental health.
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It's bad for our brains.
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Because when we use social media so much, we turn our brain off.
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right on off.
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Meaning it stops working.
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Write in the comments if you agree with this.
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Spending a lot of time on social media, let's say Instagram, makes you insecure.
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Which means you see all of these people that are on vacations, that look so pretty or handsome,
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that are having so much fun, that have a lot of friends.
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You see all these people that have everything. But you don't.
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And so you become insecure or jealous.
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You don't feel good about yourself, even though the posts that you see on Instagram are not real.
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Because Many people have perfect Instagrams.
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Meaning it looks like they have perfect lives.
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Their lives are so good.
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They're so happy. But...
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It's not true, right?
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They're.. only posting what they want other people to see.
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they're only posting the good parts.
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when in life, There are a lot of bad parts, but you never see that on Instagram.
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And it looks like people have perfect lives.
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But nobody has a perfect life.
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Nobody has a perfect life.
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Although it looks that way, it seems that way.
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It's not true.
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So that's one thing.
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Social media makes us insecure or jealous because we want what other people have.
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But another thing is that it's not good for our brains.
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Okay, here are some new words for you.
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when you're on social media, when you're scrolling through social media, There's a lot of stimulation.
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Stimulation like there are a lot of crazy things that you see on social media.
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You see happy things and then you see sad things and then you're happy.
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Oh and then something's funny.
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And then you see something depressing and then you see something break your heart.
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and then you're happy again.
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and your brain does not know what to do.
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Your brain doesn't know to be happy or to be sad.
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Your brain does not know how to act because it's experiencing all of these new emotions all at once.
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It's experiencing so many new emotions.
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Happiness, sadness, sorrow, elation, depression, and then joy, and then excitement,
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and then back to sadness.
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Your brain is experiencing so much.
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That means there's so much happening.
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There's so much going on and your brain just turns off.
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But there is one thing that social media can actually be good for and that is learning new things.
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I mean, look at us.
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us right now you are learning English.
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and you are learning English from social media.
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Okay, learning English is not easy.
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It is not easy.
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But social media can help.
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Especially if you use it the right way, if you're watching Comprehensible Input, if you're following English creators,
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English accounts, and using your English on the social media.
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texting your friends in English, or commenting in English, or whatever.
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Social media is really, really, really good for that.
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So today we have spoken We talked about...
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why social media is bad for you?
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But.. how you can use it as your superpower,
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as your secret tool to learning English.
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Remember, save this video to watch again tomorrow or next week so you see the same words and remember them easier.
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Remember, with me, you learn English every day.
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Have a good day, my friends.
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Peace.

Für wen ist dieses Video geeignet?

Das Video richtet sich an Lerner*innen auf Level A2 bis B2, die täglich Englisch üben und so schnell Fortschritte machen wollen. Egal, ob du deine Sprachkenntnisse verbessern oder mehr Selbstvertrauen im Sprechen gewinnen möchtest – hier bekommst du praktische Tipps, um Social Media nicht nur zu scrollen, sondern zu lernen. Perfekt für alle, die Englisch lernen mit YouTube lieben und ihre Zeit effektiv nutzen wollen!

Wörter und Redewendungen, die du dir sichern solltest

  • Insecure: Unsicher. Beispiel: "Social media makes me insecure." (Social Media macht mich unsicher.)
  • Jealous: Eifersüchtig. Achtung: Nicht zu verwechseln mit "envious" (neidisch).
  • Stimulation: Reizung. Im Video wird es verwendet, um die vielen Bilder und Emotionen auf Social Media zu beschreiben.
  • Scroll through: Durchscrollen. Ein alltäglicher Begriff: "I scroll through TikTok every evening." (Ich scroll durch TikTok jeden Abend.)

Wie man den Akzent richtig beherrscht

Der Sprecher*in im Video hat einen klaren, verständlichen Akzent – ideal fürs Shadowing (auch "shadowspeak" oder "shadow speech" genannt). Achte besonders auf die Intonation bei Sätzen, die Emotionen ausdrücken, wie "It's not true, right?" (Das stimmt nicht, oder?). Hier steigt die Stimme am Ende, was eine Frage signalisiert. Übe, indem du den Text langsam nachsprichst und die Pausen zwischen den Wörtern beachtest. So trainierst du nicht nur deinen Mundmuskel, sondern auch das Hörverstehen. Probier es aus: Nimm ein kurzes Stück des Videos, pausiere und sprich es sofort nach. Mit der Zeit wirst du merken, dass dein Englisch flüssiger klingt – und das alles, während du lernst, Social Media smarter zu nutzen!

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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