Shadowing-Übung: Your Assumptions About People Could Be Wrong, Here's Why | Reverse Assumptions - Englisch Sprechen Lernen mit Video

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Music Where do you work?
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I am a freelancer.
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I've been working in advertising for a little bit.
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What do you do for a living?
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I am a residential coordinator.
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My job is to help people with mental disabilities, maintain a sense of independence in the workplace and in the neighborhood.
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I work in a home with adults with mental disabilities.
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I've also worked as a teacher and with students with mental disabilities.
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What do you do?
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I teach voice lessons to people and I music direct children's musicals.
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What's your family like?
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I have a pretty big family.
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I'm the youngest.
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My brother was in a motorcycle accident a month after I graduated high school
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and he ended up losing his right arm and had a traumatic brain injury.
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I never thought about ableism or being an abled body person until this happened.
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I have a disability and throughout my life I had some insecurities about it.
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Like how was I supposed to like contribute in a world
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that I felt like everyone had the same abilities and I had different?
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Like I feel for your brother, you know?
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A wise woman she told me, you know, I shouldn't, don't feel sorry for them.
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They don't want that.
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They just want you to understand.
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I myself suffer from mental illness in a sense, and I hardly ever talk about it.
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It took me years to recover, literally recover my psyche.
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I've been working with people with disabilities since I was 17.
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But the things that I've seen, it made me so much more of an advocate.
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It's weird that growing up, I feel like my parents were always really fearful for me getting into adulthood.
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And I kind of always thought like, why don't you guys think I have a future?
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We live in kind of like a new world.
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Now we're talking about it.
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Now this is like an open thing.
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What do you like about yourself?
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I'm athletic.
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I mean, I work out.
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I try to get some cardio in, and I'm good at it.
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Yeah, well, you have that up on me.
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I hate exercise so much.
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I like the kind of exercise where you don't have to think about the fact that you're exercising.
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You sound like you're 25.
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I bet you got a blue shirt on, blue jeans.
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I bet you was born in Chicago.
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I bet you are a soprano, because I know you say as you're saying.
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You are some type of Hispanic background,
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between like 5'10", 6' tall, around your late 30s.
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I think you are 29.
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I think you're wearing a t-shirt and jeans.
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I think you're from the East Coast, maybe like Pennsylvania.
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Maybe mixed, maybe Asian.
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Kind of petite, short.
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I know you give small little hints at some kind of walking apparatus.
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Not in the chair, though.
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I feel like you're pretty young, 19, 20.
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Hey.
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Hey.
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What's up?
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I was right about a couple things.
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It's so weird having a couple conversations.
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I was visualizing you a whole different way.
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Oh, really?
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A whole different.
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I thought you had a blue shirt.
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You got the brown hair.
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I said you were 29?
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No, I'm not.
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I'm 23.
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Oh, what's all I?
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You said I was 25.
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I'm from the south.
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I'm from EFUS.
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I'm from EFUS, embassy.
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I'm from San Jose, Silicon Valley.
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Oh, okay.
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I am German, not Norwegian.
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You're not German in here?
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Sure, yeah.
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Like a lot.
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You said I was a soprano, I'm not.
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Oh, alto?
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Yeah, low voice.
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Alto, I was a tenor.
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That makes sense.
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You sound like a tenor.
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Let's just sing randomly.
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Sure, yeah.
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Let's sing a song.
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Alright.
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What you saying?
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What's all I going to say?
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We'll do that later.
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Hi.
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Hi.
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Finally I actually meet you.
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I feel like I know you.
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I did not expect you in a chair other than when you gave tiny little hints.
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It threw me off for a second.
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And I'm actually 29.
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29?
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Wow.
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I was really off.
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You were right.
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I actually am Asian, which no one guesses.
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So you guessed it without looking.
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In looking now, I was like, I was wrong.
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You gave me some inches, I was like, sweet, I'll take it.
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What do you got?
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I think you said five, eight, six.
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I'm like, oh my god, I'm like five, seven, on a good day, maybe?
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I said short, petite, so I was pretty spot on.
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I don't know how tall you would be.
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I don't think you would tower over me.
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No, 5'1".
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As we get older, things get harder, right?
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I'm just having to come to face with the fact that I think I'm a little sensitive.
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I think you're too hard on yourself.
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I think you just feel things and that's good.
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Yeah.
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You're like, I'm sensitive.
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You're just, you're a person with feelings. For sure. For sure.
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I gotta ask you, what's like the toughest challenge that I'm like? getting dressed, getting fed.
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No, so I'm actually not confined to the chair.
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I can do a little bit of walking, but I walked a lot as a kid, and I only started using the wheelchair when I was in high school.
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But I grew up with my parents being fearful of my future, you know?
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Like, I don't know how she's gonna make it in the world.
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And they would say things to me like, well, we wanna get a house that we can have like an apartment that you can live in, like a basement apartment.
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I'm like, I don't need to live with you.
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I can do this on my own.
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It was nice to meet you, Oshie.
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Yeah, it was nice to meet you too.
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Carolyn, it was really nice meeting you.
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I honestly had a great experience just talking to you.
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So I don't know if you're a handshaker or a hugger, but I still give you hugs.
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Yeah.
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That's just awesome.
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It was fun.
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It's nice to meet you, Albert.
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Likewise.

Wortschatz und Sprechhinweise zu dieser Lektion

Diese Sprechübung auf Niveau B2 basiert auf dem Video „Your Assumptions About People Could Be Wrong, Here's Why“. Diese Wörter kommen am häufigsten vor: disabilities, mental, meet. Dieses Video enthält 136 Sätze und 1005 Wörter zum Nachsprechen. Der gesprochene Teil dauert 5:59. Der Sprecher spricht in natürlichem Tempo, etwa 168 Wörter pro Minute, ähnlich wie im Alltagsgespräch. Nur 78 % der Wörter gehören zu den 3.000 häufigsten im Englischen, der Wortschatz ist also anspruchsvoll. 21 der 136 Sätze sind Fragen – gut, um Frageintonation und kurze Antworten zu üben.

Wichtiger Wortschatz in diesem Video

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

WortAusspracheBedeutung
alto Substantiv/ˈæl.toʊ/Alt
petite Adjektiv/pəˈtiːt/zierlich, zart gebaut
soprano Substantiv/səˈpɹænoʊ/Sopran
tenor Substantiv/ˈtɛnə(ɹ)/Tenor
fearful Adjektiv/ˈfɪəfəl/furchtbar
hint Substantiv/hɪnt/Hinweis, Tipp
ableism Substantiv/ˈeɪ.bə.lɪ.zəm/Ableismus, Disablismus
cardio Substantiv/ˈkɑɹ.di.oʊ/Cardio, Cardiotraining
confine Verb/ˈkɑnfaɪn/beschränken
freelancer Substantiv/ˈfɹiˌlæn.səɹ/Freiberufler, freier Mitarbeiter
visualize Verb/ˈvɪʒuəˌlaɪz/veranschaulichen
insecurity SubstantivUnsicherheit
adulthood SubstantivErwachsenenalter
apparatus Substantiv/ˌæp.əˈɹeɪ.təs/Apparat
traumatic Adjektiv/tɹɔˈmætɪk/traumatisch

Phrasal Verbs, die du hören wirst

WortAusspracheBedeutung
end up Verbsich herausstellen, am Ende irgendwo / etwas sein
grow up Verbaufwachsen, erwachsen werden
work out Verb/ˌwɝk ˈaʊt/ausrechnen

Sätze zum Wiederholen

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

  • What do you do for a living?
  • What's your family like?
  • What do you like about yourself?
  • What's all I going to say?
  • I gotta ask you, what's like the toughest challenge that I'm like?

Grammatik in diesem Video

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

StrukturIm Video
Present Perfect Continuous have/has been + -ing – eine Handlung, die früher begann und noch andauertI've been working
Present Perfect have/has + Partizip Perfekt – eine vergangene Handlung, die jetzt noch wichtig istI've also worked · I've seen

Aussprache, auf die du achten solltest

Der Sprecher verwendet 51 Kurzformen und abgeschwächte Formen, zum Beispiel I'm, you're, don't. Sprich sie in der kurzen Form, so wie du sie hörst.

  • Lange Wörter – auf die Betonung achten: ableism /ˈeɪ.bə.lɪ.zəm/, apparatus /ˌæp.əˈɹeɪ.təs/, motorcycle /ˈmoʊtɚˌsaɪkəl/

Laute, die Deutschsprachigen schwerfallen:

  • /w/ — mit runden Lippen, nicht wie das deutsche „w“ (/v/): wheelchair /ˈ(h)wilt͡ʃɛɹ/, workplace /ˈwɝkˌpleɪs/, likewise /ˈlaɪkˌwaɪz/
  • Stimmhafter Auslaut — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ am Wortende nicht verhärten: jeans /d͡ʒiːnz/, visualize /ˈvɪʒuəˌlaɪz/, likewise /ˈlaɪkˌwaɪz/, hug /hʌɡ/
  • /æ/ — offener als „ä“: alto /ˈæl.toʊ/, soprano /səˈpɹænoʊ/, freelancer /ˈfɹiˌlæn.səɹ/, apparatus /ˌæp.əˈɹeɪ.təs/, traumatic /tɹɔˈmætɪk/

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. Beginne mit 0,75-facher Geschwindigkeit, sprich Satz für Satz nach und wechsle zur normalen Geschwindigkeit, sobald es leichtfällt.
  3. Nimm dich auf und vergleiche mit dem Original; achte dabei auf Wörter wie alto, petite, soprano.

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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