Shadowing-Übung: Where Dollars Die and Are Reborn - Englisch Sprechen Lernen mit Video
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- Money.
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It's everywhere.
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But what happens when your bills get old and need to be replaced by new ones?
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That means old cash needs to be destroyed.
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A lot of cash.
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This is not, however, the story of money growing on trees, but of trees, growing out of money.
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Well, more like vegetables.
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- We are here at the Federal Reserve Bank in New Orleans, and this is where we shred millions of dollars.
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My name is Dean Wortha, I'm the lead business analyst for cash services here at the New Orleans Fed.
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We are the nation's bank.
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Our job is to make sure that we have a supply of currency.
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Also part of that is to ensure that we remove unfit, old dirty currency from circulation.
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So here on average, we shred about six million dollars in dirty money every day.
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This could be for any number of reasons.
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It could be because the note has rips in it, holes in it, tears in it.
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It could have tape on it, it could have graffiti written all over it.
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We don't want that note going back into circulation.
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If it has any sort of those qualities, it will be shredded.
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What we used to do is take all of these currency shreds and they would just wind up as waste, going to a landfill.
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Now, through a lot of work and effort, we finally figured out a way where we can take these shreds and ultimately recycle them.
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- So all that green leaves the Fed and heads to a compost facility where it turns into something quite useful.
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- What you're looking at right now is 24 million dollars.
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But the soil that is creates will be priceless.
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My name is Johnathan Christian.
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We turn cash into soil.
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It is definitely one of our secret ingredients.
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It's little in content, but it's huge in what it provides.
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Currency that's deemed unfit is brought to our facility at Wooden Materials.
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From there we go through a simple composting process where we convert that into a healthy soil.
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Our compost is used primarily by urban farmers in the greater New Orleans area.
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- One of these farmers is Simond Menasche.
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- And this is a million dollar farm.
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We are making fresh, local food accessible in New Orleans.
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We've grown veggies, herbs, cucumbers, tomatoes and peppers.
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The vegetables we grow here are made out of composted cash.
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It is very fulfilling to be growing, using a material that would otherwise go to waste.
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One man's trash is another man's treasure.
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- And that's the story of how we grow tomatoes out of cash.
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Wortschatz und Sprechhinweise zu dieser Lektion
Dieses Video enthält 38 Sätze und 436 Wörter zum Nachsprechen. Der gesprochene Teil dauert 2:51. Der Sprecher spricht in natürlichem Tempo, etwa 153 Wörter pro Minute, ähnlich wie im Alltagsgespräch. 84 % der Wörter gehören zu den 3.000 häufigsten im Englischen; den Rest solltest du dir vor dem Üben ansehen.
Wichtiger Wortschatz in diesem Video
15 weniger häufige Wörter aus dem Video, mit Aussprache und Bedeutung:
- currency /ˈkʌɹ.ən.si/ (Substantiv) — Währung. Money or other items used to facilitate transactions.
- soil /sɔɪl/ (Substantiv) — Erde, Grund. A mixture of mineral particles and organic material, used to support plant growth.
- farmer /ˈfɑɹ.mɚ/ (Substantiv) — Landwirt, Landwirtin. A person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock; anyone engaged in agriculture on a farm.
- circulation /ˌsɝkjʊˈleɪʃən/ (Substantiv) — Kreislauf, Zirkulation. The act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began.
- vegetable /ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/ (Substantiv) — Gemüse. A plant raised for some edible part of it, such as the leaves, roots, fruit or flowers, but excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, herb, or spice…
- tomato /təˈmeɪ.toʊ/ (Substantiv) — Tomate, Paradeiser. A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum, having edible fruit.
- unfit /ʌnˈfɪt/ (Adjektiv) — untauglich. Not fit; not having the correct requirements.
- primarily /ˈpɹaɪ.mə.ɹə.li/ (Adverb) — hauptsächlich, in erster Linie. Of a primary or central nature, first and foremost.
- trash /tɹæʃ/ (Substantiv) — Abfall, Mist. Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
- tear /tɛɹ/ (Verb) — reißen, zerreißen. To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate.
- rip /ɹɪp/ (Verb) — reissen, zerreißen. To divide or separate the parts of (especially something flimsy, such as paper or fabric), by cutting or tearing; to tear off or out by violence.
- leaf /lif/ (Substantiv) — Blatt, Laubblatt. The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
- accessible /əkˈsɛs.ɪ.bəl/ (Adjektiv) — zugänglich. Easy of access or approach.
- treasure /ˈtɹɛʒəɹ/ (Substantiv) — Schatz. A collection of valuable things; accumulated wealth; a stock of money, jewels, etc.
- pepper /ˈpɛp.ə/ (Substantiv) — Pfeffer, Pfefferstrauch. A plant of the family Piperaceae.
Phrasal Verbs, die du hören wirst
- figure out (Verb) — herausfinden. To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.
- look at (Verb) — schauen. To observe or watch.
- turn into (Verb) — sich wandeln in, sich verwandeln in. To become.
- wind up /waɪnd ˈʌp/ (Verb) — aufziehen. To wind (rope, string, mainsprings, etc.) completely.
Aussprache, auf die du achten solltest
Der Sprecher verwendet 4 Kurzformen und abgeschwächte Formen, zum Beispiel don't, I'm, we've. Sprich sie in der kurzen Form, so wie du sie hörst.
- Die Laute „sh“ und „zh“: circulation /ˌsɝkjʊˈleɪʃən/, trash /tɹæʃ/, treasure /ˈtɹɛʒəɹ/, shred /ʃɹɛd/
- Lange Wörter – auf die Betonung achten: circulation /ˌsɝkjʊˈleɪʃən/, primarily /ˈpɹaɪ.mə.ɹə.li/, accessible /əkˈsɛs.ɪ.bəl/, ingredient /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/
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- Höre dir das ganze Video einmal an, ohne zu sprechen, und notiere die Wörter, die du nicht kennst.
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- Nimm dich auf und vergleiche mit dem Original; achte dabei auf Wörter wie currency, soil, farmer.
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.