Shadowing-Übung: This Is How You Become More Articulate - Englisch Sprechen Lernen mit Video

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You once said the most dangerous person is one who is articulate.
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What would you recommend to a one who wants to learn to speak in a more articulate manner?
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Well, articulate is an interesting word, eh?
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Because if your joints are articulated, and that means you can do things with them because they're articulated, right?
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They're not one solid, vague mass.
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They're differentiated.
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And someone who's graceful is articulated.
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And compelling because they're articulated.
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And speech is a form of articulation in that manner because the act of speech itself is extremely complicated.
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It's a very complicated motor activity, right?
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It's a very complicated action to dance with your tongue, let's say.
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And it is definitely the case
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that there is no more exceptional form of the capacity to be dangerous than to be articulate.
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And one of the things that really shocks me, part of the reason that my son and I and our co-workers developed this essay app,
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is that young men in particular are never taught this.
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It's like, well, why learn to, why be literate?
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well do you want to be
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do you want to be competent and dangerous or do you want to be vague and useless
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because those are your options
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and I don't care what your job is it doesn't matter what you end up doing if you're a plumber
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great respect for plumbers by the way
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and you're articulate you can negotiate with your clients you can
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introduce your co-workers you can make a case for your employees
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you can advertise your services you can think through your problems you're firing on all cylinders
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our whole culture is based on the idea of the supremacy of the word
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our whole culture is based on the idea
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that it is the word itself that extracts habitable order from chaos and possibility
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and the reason our culture is predicated on that is because it's a deep truth,
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and to the degree that our culture actually embodies that, it works.
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So, it's a great thing to be articulate.
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And it would be so lovely
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if our educators were wise enough to communicate this appropriately to young men who are striving forward,
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and to let them know in no uncertain terms that if they want to make themselves into forces to be contended with,
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that there's no surer route to that than an exceptional poetic literacy.
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Now, it's not like young people don't have an intuition of this.
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There are reasons they admire rap musicians,
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for example, who are often extraordinarily articulate in their performance and their capacity for spontaneous poetic utterance.
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And certainly, the greatest people I've met, including great warriors, you might say,
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are great in no small part because they're articulate.
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I know a former special services, special operations soldier, Jocko Willink.
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Some of you might know about Jocko.
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He's got a pretty decent online following, and you know, he's about four feet wide and about three feet thick, and he's one tough son of a bitch.
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I'll tell you, you don't want to mess with him, and he knows perfectly well and is very
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capable of articulating the fact
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that his success as a eminent warrior is in no small part dependent on his ability to communicate.
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Because he could communicate well, he could listen to the men who were under his command.
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Because he was articulate, he could explain to his superiors the situation on the ground.
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because he was articulate, he could make a case that the men under his command who were deserving would be promoted.
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Because he could think in an articulate manner, he could plan strategically and not lose battles.
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Okay, so that's the case for being articulate.
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And what's the alternative?
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You want to be inarticulate?
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You want to say ah and like and mmm and pause and stumble and be unable to formulate a strategy,
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be unable to elucidate a vision,
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be unable to compel and convince other people to entice them with your articulated vision of what might be?
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You want the opposite of that?
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That's, why would you want that?
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You would choose awkwardness over grace?
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That's, it's preposterous.
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It's beyond foolish.
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And I cannot understand for the life of me why this case isn't made in a compelling manner, particularly to young men.
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And I know it's not being articulated to young men because they're dropping out of the educational realm in droves. And it's unbelievably sad.
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So, how do you become articulate?
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Well, by paying attention to what you say, that's a good start and what do I mean by that?
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I mean pay attention to what you say.
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So you can think of this as an analogy.
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So imagine that you're trying to walk across a swamp and the swamp is murky, but you know there's a path.
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You know there's a path of stone under the water, but it twists and moves.
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And if you stay on the path, you won't drown.
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The crocodiles in the swamp won't devour you.
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And as you walk forward, you can feel with your next step where the stone might be.
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And then you feel it solid.
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Then you take that step, and then you do the same thing with your foot again.
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You search, and you find out what's solid, and you step on it and you move forward in that manner.
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That's what you do with your words.
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It's the same thing.
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You feel and you feel.
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Is this the right word?
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Is the fact that I'm uttering it putting me together and making me intact and stronger,
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or is it tearing me apart and making me dissolute and weak?
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And you can learn to do that.
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I learned this in part from reading Carl Rogers,
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who's a great clinician, and Rogers believed that the integration of language
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and action was a necessary precondition for operation as an effective clinician.
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That you had to align what you said with who you were.
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And that one of the things that your clients would be evaluating you for was that capability.
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And you might say that someone with that capability manifests themselves as genuine and trustworthy.
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and more than that I would say also as compelling and interesting
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although that can be gamed but the entire combination
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that emerges out of the domain of articulate communication can't
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be gamed it's not easily you feel your way I noticed 40 years ago
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when I started thinking these things through that much of what I said actually made me feel weak.
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I didn't know why exactly, but sometimes some of the things I said didn't have that effect.
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They weren't accompanied by a sense of shame, let's say.
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They weren't accompanied with a sense of vulnerability.
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They were solid.
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And at the beginning, that was probably only about 5% of what I said.
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The rest of it was instrumental.
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You know, it was language I was using to get my way in the manner
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that Tammy described when she introduced me tonight There was an arrogance in my use of language
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that had to do with the desire to attain proximal victories, right?
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To appear smart, let's say, to win an argument, something like
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that A very different idea than merely feeling my way along to see what word was appropriate for what moment
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But you can learn to do that
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and you can listen to yourself and you can stop humming
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and hawing and using like and you know and fillers
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and you can take the time necessary to craft your words carefully
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and you can practice merely saying what you believe to be true
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and you can read and you can read great writers and you can write
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and you can write about what you think about the problems that obsess you
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and you can become articulate as a consequence and there'll be nothing about that that isn't the adventure of your life.
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And so it's a moral endeavor in some real sense.
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To become articulate is to become the master of your own tongue and to become properly articulate is to
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is to make the Word divine and to treat it in that manner
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and to decide whether or not you believe that it is the case
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that the divine Word creates the order that's habitable and good.
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And if you do believe that, well, if you don't believe that, then what do you believe?
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And if you do believe that, well, go all in.
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See what happens.
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see what happens
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if you become
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articulate I'll
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give you one more small example Tammy touched on this in the introduction too she said she'd learned to pause.
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You can pause.
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It's a prayerful pause in some sense.
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When you're in a discussion with someone, you can ask yourself, they might present you with a question or a conundrum or a proposition,
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and instead of responding with what you know to be right, so to speak, you could just ask yourself, what do I actually think about that?
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But it has to be a real question.
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It has to be the kind of question that you pose to someone you didn't know.
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It has to be a question predicated on the idea that you might not know who you are.
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And that you could ask.
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And so someone will present you with a question, you think, okay.
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What do I think about that?
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But you have to want to know the answer, and then the answer will make itself known.
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Because that's how thought works, and then you can just communicate that answer.
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and if you do that you'll be interesting right away
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you'll be interesting to the person that you're talking to and
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if they do that to you they'll be interesting too
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and then if you both do that you'll have an interesting conversation
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and if you have an interesting conversation you'll both grow as a consequence
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and that's actually the pathway to growth and you just wait,
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you can wait you can open yourself up to the possibility that what needs to be said will make itself manifest
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if that's what you are striving for, if that's what you're asking for.
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And then you can merely communicate that.
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You have to abandon instrumentality to do that.
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So one of the reasons Joe Rogan is so successful, by the way, is that that's what Joe does.
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He just asks questions.
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He isn't trying to get something from his guests.
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He's not trying to become more famous.
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he doesn't need any more money, there's no instrumental utilization of language in his discourse.
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He's just a humble lunkhead, you know, in the most profound sense, who would like to know more than he knows,
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and who asks all the stupid questions he can think up.
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And it turns out that he's actually very, very smart, and very well educated now, after talking to hundreds and hundreds of people and listening.
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And so the stupid questions he asks aren't stupid, and they're questions that are shared by virtually everyone who's listening.
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And he takes his listeners along on this process of exploratory endeavor, and it's the pathway to success.
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And the same thing can be true of your life.
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The pathway to success is much...
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It's a...
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If you're guided by the spirit of honest inquiry
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and every word you say is reflective of what you believe to be the truth, then the pathway that you walk on is a golden pathway to success.
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And I know that, I know that to be true.

Wortschatz und Sprechhinweise zu dieser Lektion

Diese Sprechübung auf Niveau C1 basiert auf dem Video „This Is How You Become More Articulate“. Dieses Video enthält 161 Sätze und 1940 Wörter zum Nachsprechen. Der gesprochene Teil dauert 14:20. Der Sprecher spricht gleichmäßig mit etwa 135 Wörtern pro Minute – ein angenehmes Tempo fürs Shadowing. 85 % der Wörter gehören zu den 3.000 häufigsten im Englischen; den Rest solltest du dir vor dem Üben ansehen.

Wichtiger Wortschatz in diesem Video

Die 15 anspruchsvollsten Wörter aus dem Video, mit Aussprache und Bedeutung:

WortAusspracheBedeutung
articulate Verb/ɑːɹˈtɪk.jə.leɪt/artikulieren
pathway Substantiv/ˈpæθˌweɪ/Bahn, Pfad
compel Verb/kəmˈpɛl/bezwingen, unterwerfen
pause Substantiv/pɔːz/Pause
swamp Substantiv/ˈswɑmp/Sumpf, Moor
clinician Substantiv/klɪˈnɪʃən/Klinikmitarbeiter, Klinikangestellter
habitable Adjektiv/ˈhæbɪtəbəl/bewohnbar, habitabel
plumber Substantiv/ˈplʌm.əɹ/Klempner, Klempnerin
predicate Substantiv/ˈpɹɛd.ɪ.kɪt/Prädikat, Satzaussage
endeavor Substantiv/ɛnˈdɛv.ɚ/Bemühung, Bestreben
manifest Substantiv/ˈmæn.ɪ.fɛst/Ladungsliste
poetic Adjektiv/poʊˈɛtɪk/dichterisch, poetisch
strive Verb/ˈstɹaɪv/streben, sich bemühen
accompany Verb/əˈkʌm.pə.ni/begleiten
vague Adjektiv/veɪɡ/nebelhaft, schwach

Phrasal Verbs, die du hören wirst

WortBedeutung
end up Verbsich herausstellen, am Ende irgendwo / etwas sein
find out Verbherausfinden, erfahren
think through Verbdurchdenken
turn out Verbsich herausstellen als/dass, sich erweisen als

Sätze zum Wiederholen

Kurze, vollständige Sätze aus dem Video, die du im Alltag wiederverwenden kannst:

  • You want to be inarticulate?
  • You want the opposite of that?
  • That's, why would you want that?
  • You would choose awkwardness over grace?
  • What do I think about that?

Grammatik in diesem Video

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

StrukturIm Video
Bedingungssätze if + Satz, will/would + Verb – eine Bedingung und ihre Folgeif you do that you'll be · if they do that to you they'll be · if you both do that you'll have
Passiv be + Partizip Perfekt – wichtig ist, was geschieht, nicht wer es tutare articulated · is articulated · are never taught
Relativsätze who / which + Satz – eine Zusatzinformation über eine Person oder Sacheone who is · one who wants · men who are

Aussprache, auf die du achten solltest

Der Sprecher verwendet 44 Kurzformen und abgeschwächte Formen, zum Beispiel you're, they're, don't. Sprich sie in der kurzen Form, so wie du sie hörst.

  • Die „th“-Laute: pathway /ˈpæθˌweɪ/, trustworthy /ˈtɹʌst.wɜː.ði/
  • Die Laute „sh“ und „zh“: clinician /klɪˈnɪʃən/, exceptional /ɪkˈsɛpʃənəl/, articulation /ɑɹˌtɪk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/, precondition /ˈpɹiːkənˌdɪʃən/, intuition /ˌɪn.tjuːˈɪʃ.ən/
  • Lange Wörter – auf die Betonung achten: articulate /ɑːɹˈtɪk.jə.leɪt/, habitable /ˈhæbɪtəbəl/, accompany /əˈkʌm.pə.ni/, instrumental /ɪnstɹəˈmɛntəl/, exceptional /ɪkˈsɛpʃənəl/

Laute, die Deutschsprachigen schwerfallen:

  • /w/ — mit runden Lippen, nicht wie das deutsche „w“ (/v/): pathway /ˈpæθˌweɪ/, swamp /ˈswɑmp/, consequence /ˈkɑn.sɪ.kwəns/, trustworthy /ˈtɹʌst.wɜː.ði/
  • Stimmhafter Auslaut — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ am Wortende nicht verhärten: pause /pɔːz/, strive /ˈstɹaɪv/, vague /veɪɡ/, contend /kənˈtɛnd/, reflective /ɹɪˈflɛktɪv/
  • /æ/ — offener als „ä“: pathway /ˈpæθˌweɪ/, habitable /ˈhæbɪtəbəl/, manifest /ˈmæn.ɪ.fɛst/, instrumentality /ˌɪnstɹʊmɛnˈtælɪti/, arrogance /ˈæɹ.ə.ɡəns/

So übst du mit diesem Video

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

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