Shadowing Practice: 01| Deutsch Dialoge – (🇩🇪 In der Schule) - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Deutsch Dialog 1 Schau mal, da ist ein neues Mädchen.
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Ja, sie sitzt morgen neben mir.
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Lass uns Hallo sagen.
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Hallo, ähm, ich bin Sarah.
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Ähm, ich heiße Lena.
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Schön, dich kennen zu lernen.
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Ah, ähm, und ich bin Max.
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Willst du mit uns sitzen?
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Gerne.
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Ich kenne hier niemanden.
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Oh, kein Problem.
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Wir helfen dir.
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Hast du heute Mathe?
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Ja, in der dritten Stunde.
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Was ist dein Lieblingsfach, Sarah?
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Ich mag Kunst sehr.
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Und du?
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Ich mag Deutsch und um Musik.
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Hahaha!
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Mein Lieblingsfach ist Sport.
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Habt ihr heute Englisch?
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Nein, heute haben wir Mathe, Bio und Geschichte.
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Oh, ich finde Geschichte langweilig.
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I also, but the teacher is nice.
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Yes, Mr Weber is always friendly.
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When will the school begin?
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Um 8 Uhr.
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Our first time is Mathe.
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And how many hours have you on Monday?
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6 hours.
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Oh, that's a lot.
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Am Friday have we only 4.
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Have you also homework every day?
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Yes, almost every day.
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But sometimes they are easy.
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Who is your Mathe -Lehrer, Sarah?
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Herr Klein.
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He is a bit of a fair.
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I had him last year.
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I find him good.
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And who does teach German?
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Frau Berg.
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She is very nice.
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I like her.
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She explains well.
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Yes, her days are fun.
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But at Frau Meyer is always still.
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She is a bit of a bit of a bit, right?
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Yeah, but she is also help.
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What do you like in school, Lena?
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I like the pause.
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I speak with my friends.
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I find the hall.
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Cool.
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I like the music room.
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I hate the job.
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I also, but I like the work.
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Gruppensarbeit is sometimes stress.
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Yeah, if no one works.
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And what do you like, Sarah?
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I like the long days.
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We have a third hour.
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I'm happy to do it!
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I love Sport!
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What do we do today?
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I think we play basketball.
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Super!
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I'm good at working!
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I don't, but I'm going to play.
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After the training is a pause.
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I buy a sandwich.
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I have a bread from home.
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Let's sit.
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Have you tomorrow a test?
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Yes, in biology.
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I haven't learned yet.
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I don't.
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No worries, it's just a small test.
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Have you done the job?
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Yes, yesterday.
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I make them in the pause.
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I write them from you.
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Hmm, this time.
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In this week we make a project in German.
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Yes, Frau Berg said that we should write about our hobbies.
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That's good.
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I have many hobbies.
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We should make a card and show it in the class.
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I write about computer and video.
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I love music.
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So I make my card about music.
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I play football.
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That's my topic.
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Ah, yeah, a picture is good for the Plakat.
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We have time to go to the Freitag.
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We can work tomorrow together on the other day.
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We're going to go to school. Where are we going?
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I forgot it.
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We're going to go to the zoo.
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That said Herr Weber yesterday.
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I'm glad I'm not going to go to the zoo.
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I love animals, especially elephants and elephants.
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I want to make photos and my favorite animal.
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We have to go to school at 8am, right?
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Yes, and we need a lunch package.
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I take water, bread and an apple with.
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Hopefully it will be nice.
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So, the education is now over.
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Endlich!
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Today was a long day.
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Yeah, but it was also nice.
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I found the German teaching today very interesting.
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And I was going to talk about the flight.
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I'm happy that I have new friends found.
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We also.
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You're good to us.
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Will we go to school tomorrow?
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Gerne.
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I'll wait for the door.
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Super, until tomorrow.
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Tschüss, until soon.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

The speaker keeps coming back to these words: ich, Mathe, und, Sarah, tomorrow. This video has 121 sentences and 619 words to shadow. The speech runs for 5:07. The speaker talks at a steady 121 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. Only 68% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding. 19 of its 121 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.

Key vocabulary in this video

12 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
pause noun/pɔːz/A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
elephant noun/ˈɛlɪfənt/A large mammal of the family Elephantidae in the order Proboscidea, having a trunk, and native to Africa and Asia.
hobby noun/ˈhɑ.bi/An activity that one enjoys doing in one's spare time.
topic noun/ˈtɑpɪk/A subject; a theme; a category or general area of interest.
package noun/ˈpæk.ɪd͡ʒ/Something which is packed, a parcel, a box, an envelope.
biology noun/baɪˈɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/The study of all life or living matter.
homework noun/ˈhoʊmˌwɝk/Exercises assigned by a teacher to a student which review concepts studied in class.
sandwich noun/ˈsæn(d).wɪd͡ʒ/A dish or foodstuff where at least one piece, but typically two or more pieces, of bread serves as the wrapper or container of some other food.
distress noun/dɪˈstɹɛs/Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
ditch noun/dɪt͡ʃ/A trench; a long, shallow indentation, as for irrigation or drainage.
hahahahaha (an onomatopoeic representation of laughter).
lass noun/læs/A girl; also (by extension), a young woman.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

  • Have you also homework every day?
  • What do we do today?
  • Have you tomorrow a test?
  • Have you done the job?
  • Will we go to school tomorrow?

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

StructureIn the video
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters nowhaven't learned · Have you done
Advice with “should” should + verb — saying what is a good ideashould write · should make
Future with “going to” be going to + verb — a plan or something you can see comingI'm going to play · We're going to go · I'm not going to go
Future with “will” will + verb — a decision, promise or predictionwill the school begin · will be · Will we go

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 13 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, we're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

How to practise with this video

  1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
  2. Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
  3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like pause, elephant, hobby.

What is the Shadowing Technique?

Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.

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