Shadowing Practice: German Breakfast Vocabulary - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Oh, a typical German breakfast.
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We have a typical German breakfast.
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And in this video I show you something special in Germany.
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And we sometimes eat raw meat for breakfast.
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Sometimes we eat raw meat for breakfast.
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Okay, let's go.
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What have we here?
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First, what is this? That is...
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Brötchen.
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This is a normal, a light, a little bread.
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And this here is a Dinkel bread.
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That is a Dinkel bread.
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And this has also small sun-bloom-bloom-bloom.
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See you?
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That are sun-bloom-bloom-bloom-bloom.
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And what have we here?
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This is a Choco bread.
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This is mostly for children.
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Here we have butter, normal, and Honig.
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That is Blutenshonig.
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This is Marlade.
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And here we have the Schinken, the Kochschinken.
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And that is Käse.
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So, and here is the special.
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And it's called Met or Hackepeter.
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Hackepeter is called in Berlin, Sachsen, Brandenburg.
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And that is raw meat with potatoes.
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And most of the time is that with a little salt and pepper.
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A little salt and pepper.
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And that comes from Obstbrötchen.
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And here we have some salad, gourmet, tomato and Petersilie.
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We also have this here.
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That's also a bit of a And what do you
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is what do you think what this is
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that is a salad a salad so it's just a salad with eier
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and a little sauce and here we have we have another full corn
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and what we have here to drink that is a cappuccino
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so also this here is a German for breakfast on the bread look here is the bread
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that you do then so entweder hier noch mal trennen das brötchen
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so und dann mit dem messer nimmt man manche mögen es
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mit butter oder ohne butter ich mag butter also ich nehme
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auch ein bisschen butter und dieses verb kannst du dir auch
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merken das ist das messer und jetzt streicht man die butter auf das brötchen guck mal
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so genau also streichen oder man kann auch sagen schmieren schmieren
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und dann nimmt man ein bisschen was von dem und macht das hier drauf und dann kann man das
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so essen mit zwiebeln That's really typical German.
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It's a good food for breakfast.
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Or you can also put the cheese on it.
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See you?
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That's a piece of cheese.
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This is a piece of cheese.
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Perfect!
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And good food!
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dialogues just like this one you get a transcript subtitles in german
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and english grammar explanations and tons of exercises check out the link in the description
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 55 sentences and 430 words to shadow. The speech runs for 3:08. The speaker talks at a steady 137 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 65% 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
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
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| bloom noun | /blum/ | A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud. |
| butter noun | /ˈbʌtɚ/ | A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk). |
| salad noun | /ˈsæl.əd/ | A food consisting principally of raw vegetables (especially greens, e.g. lettuce), other savoury ingredients (typically cooked), fruit, or confectionary; often… |
| pepper noun | /ˈpɛp.ə/ | A plant of the family Piperaceae. |
| explanation noun | /ˌɛkspləˈneɪʃən/ | The act or process of explaining. |
| dialogue noun | /ˈdaɪəˌlɑɡ/ | A conversation or other form of discourse between two or more individuals. |
| ton noun | /tʌn/ | The short ton of 2000 pounds (about 907 kg), 20 hundredweights of 100 pounds avoirdupois each. |
| corn noun | /ˈkɔːn/ | Any cereal plant (or its grain) that is the main crop or staple of a country or region. |
| grammar noun | /ˈɡɹæm.ə(ɹ)/ | A system of rules and principles for the structure of a language, or of languages in general. |
| potato noun | /pəˈteɪ.təʊ/ | The edible starchy tuber of the plant species Solanum tuberosum. |
| tomato noun | /təˈmeɪ.toʊ/ | A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum, having edible fruit. |
| verb noun | /vɝb/ | A word that indicates an action, event, or state of being. |
| transcript noun | /ˈtɹæn.skɹɪpt/ | Something which has been transcribed; a writing or composition consisting of the same words as the original; a written copy. |
| messer noun | /ˈmɛsə(ɹ)/ | Someone or something who messes. |
| cappuccino noun | /ˌkæpəˈt͡ʃinoʊ/ | An Italian coffee-based beverage made from espresso to which milk that has been steamed or frothed is added. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| check out verb | To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.). |
Pronunciation to watch
- Long words — get the stress right: explanation /ˌɛkspləˈneɪʃən/, cappuccino /ˌkæpəˈt͡ʃinoʊ/
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 bloom, butter, salad.
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.