Shadowing Practice: How Germans Define True Friendship - Learn English Speaking with Video

Janusz, what is for you a real friend?

A real friend is someone who is just in my life there.

I talk with him, I tell him things,

we plan things, we take something together,

we deal together, we sometimes sometimes sometimes we can trust ourselves.

And that's a friend.

That's a nice word.

We want to know how people define friendship.

Let's go!

What is for you a real friend?

A person, on which you can leave and enjoy still.

I would also say that you have to say that you have to be very important.

that you're a person that's grundsätzlich totally as a person.

And a friendship can also be a crisis.

What is for you a real friend?

Oh, a real friend is someone with whom I can my real self show.

I can be honest and transparent and And I don't have any fear,

this person, my real personality,

and their weakness and strength to show.

A real friend?

Oh, there are a few of them.

But those who correspond for a long time with someone and who you feel like,

I can always say something like that.

What is for you a real friend?

Good question.

I have not found that.

It's not easy, right?

No. A real friend is for me someone, who I always trust.

If anything, regardless of what it is,

whether it's something beautiful or something,

I can call this friend and call it.

And he is for me there.

Someone who can't be held to you if it's not so good,

but also someone who can have a lot of fun in all life situations.

Egal if you go to eat or go to sport or in a club or on the street,

that you feel always well and and can spend time together.

A real friend is someone who can trust everything,

who can't judge you, who can't tell you his opinion.

Oh, that you can't take it personally,

because he's the best friend and he's not bad.

He gives a good feeling and a good feeling,

that he doesn't want anything to do.

He can laugh and he can spend time together.

A real friend is for me a person,

on which I can always count on my own.

And who is always for me and who is always for me.

And I also for the friend.

For me, a friend or a friend is someone,

regardless of what problem I have,

that I can also 20 times talk about it,

that I can always talk about it,

that I can be heuling in the arm,

in the arm and that you said.

So like us.

Aww.

And how many real friends have you?

Not so many.

Three, four, five.

Really good friends.

How many real friends have you?

If I count, say three friends, I would say three.

I would say that those are true friends.

More, but more, we don't need to do that.

How many friends have you here in Berlin?

Oh, a little.

I would say three.

But I don't have any more.

How many friends have you?

I think you said that the most of the time is seven, eight.

So I have my five girls, three girls.

And then I have some,

I have two or three times in my year.

And then there are two people.

Also not more than ten.

I would say even many people.

Because I go to different topics with different friends and friends and friends.

And then there are also many stations where you want to go.

So really enge friends would I say 10.

That's a lot.

And are those people from your childhood, from your school?

Yes, I think 3 girls,

since I'm 5, with whom I'm really happy,

then from studying a couple of friends and now from the age of baby.

So from every single episode.

How many friends have you?

Wow, it's hard to say.

But I have already had a birthday.

Everything is good.

I have been at home at home.

There were really many people there.

There were probably 40-50 guests there.

And that's all my really heart-people.

people, but really.

And there are people from wide,

from a lot of times,

a friend from Griechenland was completely surprised.

We were completely flipped.

I have many friends.

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I'm really grateful for that and I'm very grateful for that.

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To find new friends and to build a real connection is not always easy.

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Especially if you learn a new language.

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And maybe it's also so.

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And for that, I can recommend you our Easy German Mitgliedschaft.

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Because as Easy German Member,

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you can access our Discord-Server,

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where you can exchange people from the whole world.

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And I always find it easy to get with other people in contact,

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who have an interesting interest as me.

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And that's also on our server because we have many different channels,

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such as nature, sport, philosophy,

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and you can search for the most of us,

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who can use it to you with other Deutsch learning.

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And we have also a place for living in Germany.

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So if you live in Germany or plan to work here,

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then it's also a great way to come with other people.

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Try it just out.

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All the info you find in the Info box or at easygerman.org.

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What is the difference between a friend and a friend?

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A friend would not tell you anything.

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A friend would not tell you anything.

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He would make things together,

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he would go to the cinema or to the sport.

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But he would not have a trust basis like with a real friend.

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I think a friend is really always for one.

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And a friend is someone who knows,

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who is not so deep,

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when you sit with them and talk about certain topics or talk about emotional issues,

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that's not always so deep.

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I like it because I like it because I'm not sure if I'm in a way,

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but when I'm in a way,

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something weird happened or something,

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I know I immediately know that I can call him and I know that he knows me best.

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And I think that with a friend,

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it's not so that the one.. well,

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he knows himself already, but he doesn't know that he's not in a deep connection.

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I would say that you're with a friend on a more surface level.

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That you might say that you're eating,

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but it's not so deep-growing.

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That you're really with friends,

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friends and friends, really about everything, about every feeling.

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And that would I personally with a friend's friend not make.

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There is more everything positive.

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And with friends and friends it's also negative.

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Well, I'm expecting a friend more.

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I have other expectations for a friendship.

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And I myself am, I think,

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more prepared for a friend to do.

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I have time for him to take care of him.

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And with a friend's friend,

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I help myself too often.

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But then it's not so important.

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Or then it's not so important.

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Or if it's a friend of mine bad,

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I try to keep myself up.

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And then it would be a friend of mine.

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Maybe that's a good example.

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Also, a friend of mine is a good friend.

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I would say that.

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And then it's also really nice.

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And with friends you can do things like to go to IKEA or something.

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You tell yourself that you have often difficulties in Germany to find a real friend.

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That the Germans are a bit reserved.

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Have you experienced something like that?

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Yes, I notice that sometimes,

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compared to my friend who is hollandish,

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that the connection is a bit easier to build a connection,

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when you're not German, because you're not German.

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But if you have won a German friend,

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then it's very, very true and very true.

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But it's always a distance that you need as a German.

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Many, who come to Germany,

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say it's always difficult to find friends in Germany.

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What do you think about that?

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Or maybe they don't even know what to do?

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Or maybe it's your experience?

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I think that's the point,

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if I start to start,

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I think that the Germans,

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if I can say it,

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but they are from the mentality of the mentality,

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not so communicative as people who are just more likely to act together and communicate.

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And I think we Germans are a bit of a bit

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of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit

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And so it's sometimes difficult to overcome this firewall.

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But if it's overwended, it matches it most well.

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I think a big part is maybe the language barrier,

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because I've lived in Lissabon and had to deal with German because I couldn't just Portuguese.

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And so I was in the German bubbles and not Portuguese.

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I think that when you try to get a few words to know a word,

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or you say, let's talk to English, then it could work.

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I can remember my first days in Germany.

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It was really difficult.

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Yeah, this so-called Kokosnuss against this physical culture.

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Explain, I don't understand that.

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Ah, the Kokosnuss has a hard skin and a sweet, a sweet inner.

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And it lasts a little,

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until you break through the hard skin.

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And that's the Germans, right?

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That's the Germans.

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And the Americans, they have this white,

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outside and a hard yellow in the middle.

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The two really long to understand.

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One is not better than the other.

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You just need to know that the process is always a problem for me.

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Many of the new coming to Germany say that it's hard to find friends in Germany.

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What is that?

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Well, I don't think so.

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But maybe it's something that I do.

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I'm a artist, I'm a dancer.

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I've been working for a long theater and I've been working for a lot.

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And I think, you always project the other's fault,

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why something happens to me not.

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Instead of looking at yourself and looking at myself,

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how do I do it,

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how do I do it,

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how do I do it.

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Of course, it can always be difficult in a new city.

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But it has a change effect,

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how I myself give myself.

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And I never had a problem.

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Have you any tips for people to find friends?

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Just keep on going on and not so quickly give up.

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I would say, as you said,

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try to meet each other and be together.

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And if it's inconvenient for someone,

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you have to give at the beginning more than the other person.

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I used to use Bumble Friends for friends and friends.

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Dating apps are always good,

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you don't have to always find romantic levels.

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And try to jump in the cold water.

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There are often events where Newys in the United States meet.

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I would recommend it, if you think that.

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But it's certainly not.

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Yeah.

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How do you get friends in Napoli?

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What do you do in Napoli?

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Do you buy a bottle of wine?

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No, you don't have to do it.

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Friendship is a form of love.

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It comes or it doesn't.

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It works or it doesn't.

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That's for me, for example.

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I come from Poland.

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I've never found friends in my life.

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They came with their life.

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So it's like love.

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Do you have any tips for friends to find?

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Oh gosh.

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Just to have people to speak and not to worry about it.

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I am so, I am always very free,

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I am always talking with everyone,

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regardless of the Obtagsroman on the street,

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but not to worry about it and everyone to speak.

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Janusz, what is your tip to find a new friend?

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I don't know that really,

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because I have never been in my life for a friend.

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They just gave me a little bit of a friend.

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But I've heard a very nice tip,

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namely, go to a sport.

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Make a sport with other people,

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go to a sport with them,

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there will be something to do with them.

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And don't worry about new people speaking.

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Now we want to know what a real friend is.

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Write it down in the comments.

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See you next time.

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Bye.

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Deze spreekles op niveau B1 is gebaseerd op de video “How Germans Define True Friendship”. Deze video bevat 269 zinnen en 2072 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 15:13. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 136 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. 86% 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
mentality zelfstandig naamwoord	/mɛnˈtæləti/	mentaliteit
firewall zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈfaɪ(ə)ɹˌwɔl/	brandmuur
inconvenient bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/ˌɪn.kənˈviːni.ənt/	ongemakkelijk, storend
correspond werkwoord	/ˌkoɹəˈspɑnd/	corresponderen
gosh	/ɡɑːʃ/	gossie
expectation zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/	verwachting, afwachting
dancer zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈdænsəɹ/	danser, danseres
transparent bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/tɹænsˈpæɹənt/	doorzichtig, transparant
namely bijwoord	/ˈneɪmli/	namelijk
barrier zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈbæɹi.ə/	barrière, versperring
bubble zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈbʌbəl/	bel
cinema zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈsɪn.ə.mə/	bioscoop, cinema
weakness zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈwik.nɪs/	zwakte
communicate werkwoord	/kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/	meedelen, mededelen
overcome werkwoord	/ˌəʊ.vəˈkʌm/	overwinnen

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

Woord	Betekenis
give up werkwoord	zich overgeven

Zinnen om te herhalen

Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:

Janusz, what is for you a real friend?
What is for you a real friend?
How many real friends have you?
How many friends have you?
Have you experienced something like that?

Grammatica in deze video

De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:

Structuur	In de video
Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding	someone who is · those who correspond · Someone who can
Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt	have not found · have been · have won
Overtreffende trap the -est / the most … — het hoogste of laagste van een groep	the best · the most of
Verplichting: must / have to / need to zeggen dat iets nodig is	have to say · need to do · had to deal

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 40 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals don't, I'm, you're. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

De klanken “sh” en “zh”: gosh /ɡɑːʃ/, expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/
Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: mentality /mɛnˈtæləti/, communicative /kəˈmjuː.nə.keɪ.t̬ɪv/, inconvenient /ˌɪn.kənˈviːni.ənt/, expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/, communicate /kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: communicative /kəˈmjuː.nə.keɪ.t̬ɪv/, correspond /ˌkoɹəˈspɑnd/
/æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: mentality /mɛnˈtæləti/, dancer /ˈdænsəɹ/, transparent /tɹænsˈpæɹənt/, barrier /ˈbæɹi.ə/
/w/ — met ronde lippen: firewall /ˈfaɪ(ə)ɹˌwɔl/, weakness /ˈwik.nɪs/

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 mentality, firewall, inconvenient.

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Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

Zinnen om te herhalen

Grammatica in deze video

Uitspraak om op te letten

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