Shadowing Practice: Do Berliners Think They Are Cool? | Easy German 478 - Learn English Speaking with Video
Les maken...
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Janusz stellt heute die alles entscheidende Frage bei Easy German.
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Bist du cool?
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Ja und ich freue mich darauf, weil ich selber sehr uncool bin und deshalb werde ich vielleicht was lernen.
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Das stimmt doch gar nicht Janusz.
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Manchmal.
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Schauen wir mal.
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Los geht's.
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Los geht's.
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Bist du cool?
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Ich geb mir Mühe, ja.
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Sollte sein.
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Ob ich was bin?
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Cool.
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Ich bin cool.
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Schon immer gewesen.
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Are you cool?
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I think so.
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Are you cool?
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Yes.
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No doubt.
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I don't know.
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Yes.
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Yes, yes.
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Yes. Of course. Of course.
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Of course I'm cool.
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I don't know.
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I would call you cool in combination with charisma.
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It's always a bit of a eye of the eye.
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Yes, you're cool.
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Oh man, that's a difficult question.
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We talked about it.
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I thought I wasn't cool.
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Because in school there were people cool, who had a certain picture.
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But now I find myself cool.
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And I hope that it goes so, that I find myself cooler.
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Are you cool?
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I'm pretty cool, but still happy.
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I play guitar well, sometimes I'm cool.
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Is it important to be cool?
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No. Is it important to be cool?
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No, that's not cool.
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No. To be honest and a bit of a thing is very important.
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I say that it's probably everyone's important.
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It's a bit of a situation.
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In some situations it's important, in some situations it's important.
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When I speak with a woman in a bar, I'm probably cool.
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And if I'm with my family, that's me pretty much egal.
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What would you understand if you would explain to a young person, what would you say?
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I think the young people know that very well, but I think they will be more tired and do not with it.
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Cool is always...
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I don't say something new, but I think someone with 80 can be cool if he makes a lot of trust in it, what he does.
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And then someone thinks like I'm a young person, the cool thing is.
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I think it's just a self-conscious,
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charmant, witz, it can be everything, nothing negative.
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I'm a teacher, I work with young people.
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I think that...
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I thought that cool being means...
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...to wear certain clothes, to know what is said, often also to be unfreundly to people or not so social.
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And nowadays I find people cool, who make their own thing and make things that other people are stupid or funny or funny,
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but they just are for themselves and they are doing their thing.
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That's cool.
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What do you want to do, to be cool?
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That's not what I want.
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I don't know.
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I'm a joke, I'm cool.
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It's always a thing, I'm like, I'm always a little bit back.
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It's just easy to do.
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What do you do to be cool?
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What do you do to be cool?
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Just give not much effort to be cool.
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Just to be yourself and not to be forgiven.
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I think that charisma makes you cool.
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My opinion is to be happy with yourself as possible, without being negative to be negative.
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That's the important thing for me.
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Happy with you being, running like you are, not completely ignore what other people do and how they do it.
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But still, you should always be careful not to give you a chance to give you a chance.
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And I think if you have the most fun, people will have it with you.
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Is there something you make aware of, to cool to come?
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I think that clothing is something you make aware of, to cool to come.
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The way you speak with people, is all just more aware.
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Janusz, we're going to take a short break and I want to use this, to play a game with you.
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Oh yeah, of course.
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Cool is a adjective, comes from English and in German.
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And that's a adjective that is connoted positive for most people.
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And I want to see you now how many Adjectives we find, with which we can make a compliment together.
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I'll start with you. And you are cool.
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And you are cool.
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You are nice.
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And you are nice.
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You are nice.
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And you are hip.
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You are cool. And you are authentic.
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Thank you.
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Now you have already 10 new words learned.
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And if you want more of such words, you can do this with our interactive exercises, which you get every week.
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We have a team that supports us.
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For example, Eric, who has every week interactive exercises for every video.
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And one of these exercises, the people who come here are synonyme or other things.
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So, Vokabellernen with Easy German is going to be under the stairs.
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You can do it for only 5 € a month.
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You can get to all our videos, Vokabellisten and Übungen and you can also help our work.
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We would like to try this out.
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And here is the link to our membership.
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And do you remember the moment you came to the show?
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Honestly, I was last week in the club on Halloween, on Saturday, and I had a really fat black Latex-Gasmaske on with a whole outfit in the club.
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I found it really cool because it didn't go for me.
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I had to wear masks, I couldn't see myself.
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Then I tried to make fun for everyone else, so that they had something to laugh.
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I found myself at the moment really cool.
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I don't know about it.
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I don't know.
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We were in Norway in vacation.
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He speaks Norwegian very well and had practical experiences, because we had to go to the hospital.
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And he talked super on Norwegian.
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That was really cool.
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In the school I often find myself cool as a teacher.
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Because if I feel like I can do a little quats and feel free.
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I think that's what happens to me is that when you just keep your mind, when it's stressful.
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That's what's in the name and in the word.
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That you don't stress yourself, you don't get stressed.
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And just in the way you can do something to do something.
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Yeah, totally, totally.
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I say to my wife, chill, man. Be cool.
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How do you feel it easier to tell us a story from your life in your life where you uncool was?
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Oh, I understand.
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I understand.
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What is your situation in which I was uncool?
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Yeah, I work with young people and when I have them, or the kids who go to my nerves or something.
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And if you react not cool and lazy, but then also meckering.
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That's actually pretty cool.
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By the way, my daughter was not cool.
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I think I'm always cool when I'm always curious about my husband's music.
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Because I find it bad and make my music loud. So similar.
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I would say, if I tried to try something or have something to try something, what didn't really pass to me, um other people to be impressed or for them to do something.
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If I'm going to do something for someone else's own behavior, for a specific moment, I would say,
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if someone's laughing, that's a good start.
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There were often moments where I thought that I didn't fit in the way I was.
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I use cool word now, but if I say something was uncool for me, then it's more than I was surprised by how I behave to a person
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and think about it next time I would do it differently.
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For example, to react emotionally and not say what's going on.
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And come from Berlin?
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Yes.
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Is Berlin cool?
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Yes, we just talked about it.
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Is it cool or is it cool to go to the country?
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Today it's cool because we can just go out and go to Japan in this big city.
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Actually it's really cool.
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Yes, she is loud, she is big, she is angry, she is anstrengend.
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But the food from the front was really good.
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Berlin was cool.
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Slowly, it's less cool.
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The more the people, the less the coolness. Is Berlin cool?
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Yes, Berlin is cool.
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Is Berlin cool?
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Yes, I would say it's one of the coolest places I've seen.
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Because it's not a real Berlin culture, but a mix of all of them is about who is cool for themselves and who are the individual.
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The club are cool on their own way, the park people are cool, the people who do sports.
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In Berlin is the biggest mix of people together.
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So many cool people have I not seen yet.
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Everyone is cool and is the biggest place I've seen here.
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I live here for three years.
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I would say yes.
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I come from Bayern.
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Everything is a bit conservative.
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I would say that this is a bit of the care side.
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It's very world-open, very friendly, diverse.
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There are so many great people with beautiful personalities, but also their own stories.
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For me personally, Berlin is cool
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because I found here places where I feel I feel very well and people with whom I feel very well.
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Generally, it's sometimes that kind of thing that of Berlin or why many people come to Berlin.
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But of course it's cool because everyone can find a place where they can be and feel very well.
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Which places are still cool in Berlin?
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Früher was even the Kastanienallee cool, Prenzlauer Berg, but now not yet.
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Yeah, today, Neukölln would I say, also Kreuz Köln, it's also a bit more cool.
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But what does it mean?
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It's a bit more inclusive and not so really and interesting and that's why it's not cool.
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Apropos cool, weißt du, wer gerade auch an seinem Image arbeitet?
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Ja, of course I know.
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I myself.
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Not only you, but also the country of Baden-Württemberg.
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They themselves call themselves the land.
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And how many places in Germany search for Fachkräfte?
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If you are an engineer or a doctor and you want to work in Germany, Then you can see maybe you in Baden-Württemberg in the chat.
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And to get you to get there, they have even produced a whole series of videos.
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A series that you want to watch on YouTube.
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And we will put it here today.
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We link it here.
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It's going to be a young filmmaker filmmaker, who tries to be the country of Baden-Württemberg.
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Check it out.
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We link it here.
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And we'll see you every week on your comments.
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to the topic of being cool.
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Write down, how you see it.
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Are you cool or not?
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And what have you done, to be cool?
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Thank you, Janusz.
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Thank you.
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Ciao.
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See you next week.
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Ciao.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau B1 is gebaseerd op de video “Do Berliners Think They Are Cool?”. Deze video bevat 200 zinnen en 1798 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 13:01. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 138 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. 82% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| adjective zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈæd͡ʒ.ɪk.tɪv/ | bijvoeglijk naamwoord, adjectief |
| charisma zelfstandig naamwoord | /kəˈɹɪzmə/ | charisma |
| filmmaker zelfstandig naamwoord | filmmaker | |
| react werkwoord | /ɹiːˈækt/ | reageren |
| apropos bijwoord | /ˌæp.ɹəˈpoʊ/ | terloops |
| synonym zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈsɪn.əˌnɪm/ | synoniem, evenwoord |
| stressful bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈstɹɛsfəl/ | stressvol |
| compliment zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈkɑmpləmənt/ | compliment |
| impress werkwoord | /ɪmˈpɹɛs/ | imponeren, indruk maken |
| distress zelfstandig naamwoord | /dɪˈstɹɛs/ | druk, stress |
| inclusive bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ɪnˈkluːsɪv/ | inclusief |
| behave werkwoord | /bɪˈheɪv/ | zich gedragen |
| cloth zelfstandig naamwoord | /klɒθ/ | doek, kleed |
| authentic bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ɔˈθɛn.tɪk/ | authentiek, echt |
| nowadays bijwoord | /ˈnaʊ.ə.deɪz/ | heden, momenteel |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Betekenis |
|---|---|
| go out werkwoord | naar buiten gaan |
| write down werkwoord | opschrijven, neerschrijven |
Zinnen om te herhalen
Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:
- I thought I wasn't cool.
- What do you want to do, to be cool?
- What do you do to be cool?
- What is your situation in which I was uncool?
- Are you cool or not?
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | I've seen · have even produced |
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | is said · is connoted · be impressed |
| Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding | people who come · kids who go · people who do |
| Overtreffende trap the -est / the most … — het hoogste of laagste van een groep | the most fun · the coolest · the biggest |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 33 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, don't, didn't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De “th”-klanken: cloth /klɒθ/, authentic /ɔˈθɛn.tɪk/
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: emotionally /ɪˈməʊʃənəli/, conscious /ˈkɑn.ʃəs/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: interactive /ˌɪn.tɚˈæk.tɪv/, emotionally /ɪˈməʊʃənəli/, differently /ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: adjective /ˈæd͡ʒ.ɪk.tɪv/, interactive /ˌɪn.tɚˈæk.tɪv/, inclusive /ɪnˈkluːsɪv/, behave /bɪˈheɪv/, nowadays /ˈnaʊ.ə.deɪz/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: adjective /ˈæd͡ʒ.ɪk.tɪv/, interactive /ˌɪn.tɚˈæk.tɪv/, react /ɹiːˈækt/, apropos /ˌæp.ɹəˈpoʊ/, mask /mæsk/
Zo oefen je met deze video
- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
- Spreek zin voor zin na op normale snelheid en herhaal elke zin tot je ritme gelijk is aan dat van de spreker.
- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als adjective, charisma, filmmaker.
Wat is de Shadowing-techniek?
Shadowing is een wetenschappelijk onderbouwde taalleermethode die oorspronkelijk is ontwikkeld voor professionele tolkentraining en gepopulariseerd door polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. De methode is eenvoudig maar krachtig: je luistert naar native Engelse audio en herhaalt het onmiddellijk hardop — als een schaduw die de spreker volgt met slechts 1–2 seconden vertraging. In tegenstelling tot passief luisteren of grammaticadrills, dwingt shadowing je hersenen en mondspieren om echte spraakpatronen tegelijkertijd te verwerken en te reproduceren. Onderzoek toont aan dat het de uitspraaknauwkeurigheid, intonatie, ritme, verbonden spraak, luisterbegrip en spreekvaardigheid aanzienlijk verbetert — waardoor het een van de meest effectieve methoden is voor IELTS Speaking-voorbereiding en echte Engelse communicatie.