Shadowing Practice: Learn German from the Streets of Cologne - Learn English Speaking with Video

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We are in Köln and Janusz, what do we want to know about the people?

We want to know what they have today before.

Let's go!

What do you have today before?

I have to go to the physio, to go and cook.

What do you cook today?

Today there are some of the schnitzels with Pommes frites and Salates.

Oh, that's good!

I'm going to post, then I'll go to post, and then I'll work in home office.

Do you want to post something to post or send something to you?

I want something to send.

I'm going to send my friend to my friend.

We want to make a visit.

Why?

For the Blumen?

Just so, on the Friday, for my friend, so that she's a lot.

What I have today for?

I'm on the way to buy two happy-wunsch cards.

And what else have I still for?

I'm going to go to my garden.

Oh, that's great.

Yes.

And drink beer and drink?

No, I'm looking for food.

I was just three weeks in the holiday.

That's great.

There's a lot to do today.

I'm with a friend in the Shrevegarden.

I'll see a football game.

I'm from Canada.

Canada is playing today.

Why do you speak so good?

I live here for 20 years.

I'm from now 45, but I wouldn't recognize your language.

Oh, that's a compliment.

Thank you.

I'm a Polish gentleman.

Ah, from Poland.

I'm driving now on the bike to the Kingwinter and then back.

Wow, that's a pretty good road, right?

I drive every week, one or two times.

How many kilometers are that?

90. So, overall?

Yeah.

Wow, sportlich.

I wanted to buy some gifts and eat some.

What for gifts? For his mother.

He's on the day in Luxembourg.

He's on Sunday, so he's in Germany.

And he wants to bring some gifts.

Have you already had any idea?

We were here looking, probably Socken.

That's always going on.

and little things like that.

I don't know yet.

I have a free day.

I asked myself what I'm going to do today.

Let's think together.

What would you like to do?

Something calm.

I thought maybe I'm going to go in a cafe.

A little chill.

A warm drink here.

What are you today for?

I'm going to visit a friend today.

Tell me a little bit more.

She has a birthday party and we're going to celebrate today.

And what do you do today?

I'm going to go out with my white blood.

I'm going to put some books on my own.

That's a good time to read a few books.

I'm going to work right now.

Where do you work?

RTL.

Ah, deshalb.

Und wie lange arbeitest du dann heute noch?

Heute Nacht bis um eins.

Okay, und was machst du da?

Wir machen noch um 0 Uhr die Spätnachrichten, das Nachtjournal.

Da bin ich Regie-Operator und wir hoffen, dass es heute gute Nachrichten gibt und beenden damit die Arbeitswoche.

Noch ein langer Tag dann.

Es geht.

Was habe ich noch vor?

Ich feiere heute Geburtstag I'm going to talk with my daughter.

Oh, how beautiful.

How old is she?

She is yesterday 12.

Can I see you in the camera?

What do you do today?

We celebrate with the family, there's a dinner, a coffee, a coffee, a coffee-clutch, and then we're still at the end.

What's to do with everything? In the cafe going.

What?

Probably this boxer here.

We've seen it, we wanted a little ketchup. And after?

What's best of anything else?

We'll see how long it's going.

We have a lot to tell.

It's a bit later.

What have you still before?

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I'm going to go to Pilates.

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How beautiful.

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Are you going to go there regularly?

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Yes, you have to fit. Have fun?

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Yeah, I would not do it.

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I like Pilates too.

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I'm making a pretty big shopping for an event on Saturday, and I'm here at a friend,

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to get some food for the grill.

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I'm still at Kaufland, I bought a lot of stuff.

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You're ready for the weekend?

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Yeah.

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I'm going to build a little bit of a little bit of a Bühne for music boxes and so on, we're all ready to do it.

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What's up to you today? To cook.

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What do you cook?

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Vongole and...

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What is Vongole?

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It's a lot of mushrooms.

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They are just in the season and we cook with Thai basilica, Knoblauch, Chili, Ingwer, butter and butter.

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That's the plan for today.

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And you work here and you are the cook in the kitchen?

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I am the cook here in the kitchen and Josie helps me always in the kitchen.

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Cool, so you cook today?

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Yes, we are open today and have a guest before the day before.

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Janusz, what are you doing today?

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I don't know, I don't know.

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If you don't know what you're doing today, I have an idea for you.

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Learn with us just a bit more German.

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As Easy German Mitglied you get to this and all the other videos.

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Because we find a structure to learn.

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You can use your level or search for a specific topic.

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And we will show you videos and exercises for you.

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And you can really improve your German.

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Try it out.

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It's on easygerman.org or in the Info Box.

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Janusz, we're going to go through Köln.

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That's it!

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What have you done before?

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Work and bought.

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What work?

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I have a company and have a workshop for next week.

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Tell us about your own business.

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We want more people with disabilities in the 1 market market.

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We are helping companies.

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Voll schön, right?

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What did you do today?

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I enjoyed the Regen.

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I spent a long time with the dog.

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I didn't like it.

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But we did a lot.

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We were shopping on the market.

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What did you buy?

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potatoes, tomatoes, a few tomatoes, a little bit of a Sunday menu.

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It's nice to hear from someone who the rain is enjoying, otherwise it's often like that.

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But you can't change that weather, right?

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Yes, that's right.

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I have a friend today, with her breakfast.

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I just met a investor, and now I'm going to go to the next meeting with the next investor.

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Wow, a very productive day.

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I didn't tell you about 9.00.

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I brought my cat to the hospital.

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Oh, yeah.

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And then I took it. And?

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Is everything in order?

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We'll see.

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Okay.

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I did.

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I washed my cat.

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What you do on Friday?

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Yes, when you have to leave.

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I read my book fast.

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What book?

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The Duchess and the Flame.

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Okay.

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Yeah, I'm very much driving a car.

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I was driving to school and then here.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Also, more I didn't do anything.

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We have also the whole day content produced.

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That's, I'm just sitting here the whole day before the camera and I'm talking about what we're doing.

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And what you did?

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What you did then produce?

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Videos?

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Yeah, videos for social media accounts etc. Okay.

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Very cool.

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What have you done today?

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I went to the shopping, I was meditating a little.

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That's it.

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Today I don't have to work.

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It's my chill day.

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How do you meditate regularly?

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I try it.

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If I have time, I try it.

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What have you done to do now?

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Today we were actually drinking a matcha at Starbucks.

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I slept really long ago.

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We're now on first.

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When did you sleep?

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My dinner was about 9.30pm, but then I slept at 11.30pm.

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But you slept?

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I would say that.

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But I'm going to hide my eyes.

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I was right at the second dish and I took my clothes out.

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Have I understood that right?

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Yes, it's Secondhand-Tausch-Laden.

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And what did I do?

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I had a therapy-terminal.

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And I started to get a very relaxed day.

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A good breakfast.

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Do you like therapy or is that a bit more a fight?

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No, it's good for me.

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Do you also meditize?

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Yes.

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That's great.

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What have you done now?

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I was on the market today.

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I was working on a building.

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I cooked dinner, I was a bit of a bit of a building, I was to do my building.

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And now I'm on the way, to do something for me and not for the building.

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What for a building, if I can ask?

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There is a deep flow, which will be taken from the terrace from the terrace

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and took off and the Dachdecker will be cleaned next week and sanitary.

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Oh je, but it's now going to be repaired?

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Yes, I hope.

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It's Friday, what are you doing at the end of the week?

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We're still thinking about the weather, it's not so much, but tomorrow is a good weather, we'll go a bit to go out and go out to the green.

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We're going to go into a musical tonight.

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Ah, which musical?

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In Moulin Rouge.

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Oh, I heard it was very nice.

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I heard it too.

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I can say more.

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I fly tomorrow to Munich on a retreat, to develop myself.

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What is that?

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It's mainly with body and energy.

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Okay, very interesting.

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Yes, it's definitely.

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I'm invited to Friday.

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On Sunday morning I sing in Chor.

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At the end of the afternoon we are invited to another round of birthday.

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What do you sing in Chor?

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Kumbaya or Bach?

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Both, but it's a church direction.

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We sing in Gospel.

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I am probably with friends.

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We wanted to go to Köln in a bar.

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That was our plan.

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Is this what you do typically do at Köln?

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I would say that many people go to a bar, a few people go to a party or go to home.

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My uncle had a communion.

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And on the Saturday I had to prepare for it.

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Wow, that's how you are here.

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First kindergarten, then communion.

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I have 7 children from 3 children.

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Yes, and then it's all right.

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But it makes fun and fun.

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And the kids, they always build up.

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Yeah, it's pretty cool.

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What do you do at the end?

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I go to work again.

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Oh!

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Tomorrow is then the 24-h-hour run in Le Mans.

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I go a little through the night and have maybe Sunday free.

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I want to watch with friends in the Stadtgarten football.

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That's what I'm doing.

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Tomorrow I have two nice neighbors to go to the evening.

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On Sunday I will be like always to go to the dinner table and then go to the Tierhain,

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to play with my husband Bobby a round of rounds.

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That's what I do every Sunday.

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It's a full weekend.

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Yes.

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Who rasteth, rosteth.

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Who rasteth, rosteth.

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Very nice.

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I'm now at the Süd-Süd Festival in Mannheim.

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What is that?

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That's from Oce Kimo.

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That's a German rapper, who has a festival in Mannheim.

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Cool.

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I'm going to cook.

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At the restaurant, it's open to the whole time.

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So I'm going to make more of the Knollenselleriespieße.

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And then I'm going to cook.

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Okay, and now we're going to go in.

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Thank you.

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Janusz, how was your day in Köln?

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Fantastic, just fantastic.

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It was fun and interesting and farbful. And...

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Toll.

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Now we're going to know what you're doing today.

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Write down a comment below.

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See you next time.

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Bye.

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What You'll Practice in This Lesson

This lesson uses a lively street conversation from Cologne to help you improve your English speaking and listening skills. You'll practice understanding casual, real-world dialogue—complete with natural pauses, slang, and everyday activities—and learn to mimic the rhythm and tone of native-like speech. It's perfect for english speaking practice as it reflects how people actually talk, not just textbook phrases.

Key Vocabulary & Phrases to Master

Physio: Short for "physiotherapy," a common casual term for physical therapy.
Home office: Refers to working from home, a widely used phrase in global English.
Happy-wunsch cards: Though specific to the context, this shows how compound words are used in casual speech (similar to "greeting cards" in English).
Sportlich: A German word meaning "sporty," but used here to highlight how loanwords can appear in everyday dialogue—useful for understanding mixed-language conversations.
Blumen: German for "flowers," a reminder to recognize common foreign words that might pop up in international settings.

Practice Tips for Shadowing Success

Shadowing—repeating speech immediately after the speaker—is a proven technique to boost fluency. For this video, start by watching without sound to observe mouth movements, then play short 5-10 second clips and repeat. The dialogue is conversational, so focus on matching the shadow speech speed and relaxed tone. Use a shadowing app or shadowing site to slow down clips if needed, but aim to keep up with the natural pace over time. Pay attention to phrases like "I'm going to post, then I'll go to post"—these repetitions are common in real speech and help you learn to self-correct. Practice daily for 10-15 minutes, and you'll notice your English sounds more natural and confident. Remember, learn english with videos like this one bridges the gap between classroom learning and real-world communication.

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	Have you already had · We've seen · have you done
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	will be taken · will be cleaned · be repaired
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	someone who the · flow, which will
Past continuous was/were + -ing — an action in progress at a moment in the past	were shopping · was driving · was meditating

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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