Shadowing Practice: Do Berliners Think They Are Cool? | Easy German 478 - Learn English Speaking with Video

Janusz stellt heute die alles entscheidende Frage bei Easy German.

Bist du cool?

Ja und ich freue mich darauf, weil ich selber sehr uncool bin und deshalb werde ich vielleicht was lernen.

Das stimmt doch gar nicht Janusz.

Manchmal.

Schauen wir mal.

Los geht's.

Bist du cool?

Ich geb mir Mühe, ja.

Sollte sein.

Ob ich was bin?

Cool.

Ich bin cool.

Schon immer gewesen.

Are you cool?

I think so.

Are you cool?

Yes.

No doubt.

I don't know.

Yes.

Yes, yes.

Yes. Of course. Of course.

Of course I'm cool.

I don't know.

I would call you cool in combination with charisma.

It's always a bit of a eye of the eye.

Yes, you're cool.

Oh man, that's a difficult question.

We talked about it.

I thought I wasn't cool.

Because in school there were people cool, who had a certain picture.

But now I find myself cool.

And I hope that it goes so, that I find myself cooler.

Are you cool?

I'm pretty cool, but still happy.

I play guitar well, sometimes I'm cool.

Is it important to be cool?

No. Is it important to be cool?

No, that's not cool.

No. To be honest and a bit of a thing is very important.

I say that it's probably everyone's important.

It's a bit of a situation.

In some situations it's important, in some situations it's important.

When I speak with a woman in a bar, I'm probably cool.

And if I'm with my family, that's me pretty much egal.

What would you understand if you would explain to a young person, what would you say?

I think the young people know that very well, but I think they will be more tired and do not with it.

Cool is always...

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.

And then someone thinks like I'm a young person, the cool thing is.

I think it's just a self-conscious,

charmant, witz, it can be everything, nothing negative.

I'm a teacher, I work with young people.

I think that...

I thought that cool being means...

...to wear certain clothes, to know what is said, often also to be unfreundly to people or not so social.

And nowadays I find people cool, who make their own thing and make things that other people are stupid or funny or funny,

but they just are for themselves and they are doing their thing.

That's cool.

What do you want to do, to be cool?

That's not what I want.

I don't know.

I'm a joke, I'm cool.

It's always a thing, I'm like, I'm always a little bit back.

It's just easy to do.

What do you do to be cool?

Just give not much effort to be cool.

Just to be yourself and not to be forgiven.

I think that charisma makes you cool.

My opinion is to be happy with yourself as possible, without being negative to be negative.

That's the important thing for me.

Happy with you being, running like you are, not completely ignore what other people do and how they do it.

But still, you should always be careful not to give you a chance to give you a chance.

And I think if you have the most fun, people will have it with you.

Is there something you make aware of, to cool to come?

I think that clothing is something you make aware of, to cool to come.

The way you speak with people, is all just more aware.

Janusz, we're going to take a short break and I want to use this, to play a game with you.

Oh yeah, of course.

Cool is a adjective, comes from English and in German.

And that's a adjective that is connoted positive for most people.

And I want to see you now how many Adjectives we find, with which we can make a compliment together.

I'll start with you. And you are cool.

And you are cool.

You are nice.

And you are nice.

You are nice.

And you are hip.

You are cool. And you are authentic.

Thank you.

Now you have already 10 new words learned.

And if you want more of such words, you can do this with our interactive exercises, which you get every week.

We have a team that supports us.

For example, Eric, who has every week interactive exercises for every video.

And one of these exercises, the people who come here are synonyme or other things.

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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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “Do Berliners Think They Are Cool?”. This video has 200 sentences and 1798 words to shadow. The speech runs for 13:01. The speaker talks at a steady 138 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 82% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
adjective noun	/ˈæd͡ʒ.ɪk.tɪv/	A word that modifies a noun or noun phrase or describes a noun’s referent.
charisma noun	/kəˈɹɪzmə/	A gift or power of leadership or authority.
ciao	/t͡ʃaʊ/	Hello, hi.
filmmaker noun		A producer or director of films/movies.
interactive adjective	/ˌɪn.tɚˈæk.tɪv/	Interacting with or communicating with and reacting to each other; influencing or having an effect on each other; acting or capable of acting on each other or…
react verb	/ɹiːˈækt/	To act in response.
apropos adverb	/ˌæp.ɹəˈpoʊ/	By the way.
connote verb	/kəˈnoʊt/	To signify beyond its literal or principal meaning.
coolness noun	/ˈkuːlnəs/	Moderate chilliness.
synonym noun	/ˈsɪn.əˌnɪm/	A term (word or phrase) which is synonymous with others.
stressful adjective	/ˈstɹɛsfəl/	Irritating; causing stress.
compliment noun	/ˈkɑmpləmənt/	An expression of praise, congratulation, or respect.
impress verb	/ɪmˈpɹɛs/	To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably.
distress noun	/dɪˈstɹɛs/	Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
inclusive adjective	/ɪnˈkluːsɪv/	Including (almost) everything within its scope.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
go out verb	To leave, especially a building.
write down verb	To produce or set (something) down in writing; to record something.

Sentences worth repeating

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

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?

Grammar in this video

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

Structure	In the video
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	I've seen · have even produced
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	is said · is connoted · be impressed
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	people who come · kids who go · people who do
Superlatives the -est / the most … — the top or bottom of a group	the most fun · the coolest · the biggest

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 33 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, didn't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: cloth /klɒθ/, authentic /ɔˈθɛn.tɪk/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: emotionally /ɪˈməʊʃənəli/, conscious /ˈkɑn.ʃəs/
Long words — get the stress right: interactive /ˌɪn.tɚˈæk.tɪv/, emotionally /ɪˈməʊʃənəli/, differently /ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/

How to practise with this video

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

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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Key vocabulary in this video

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Sentences worth repeating

Grammar in this video

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

What is the Shadowing Technique?