Shadowing Practice: Learn to Talk About Food in German (for absolute beginners) - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Today we are talking about eating.
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I brought food with you and Janusz will try it.
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I'm excited!
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Lecker!
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Janusz, I have typical German food.
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Here is your plate, this is the knife and this is the table.
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Okay, we start with a schnitzel.
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Good choice.
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Do you like schnitzel?
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I really like schnitzel very good.
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Sehr gut.
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Sehr gerne.
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Sehr gerne.
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Ich mag Schnitzel sehr gerne.
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Was ist auf dem Schnitzel drauf?
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Auf dem Schnitzel ist ein Stück Zitrone.
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Und?
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In Deutschland isst man ein Schnitzel mit Zitrone often.
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The Zitrone is written on the schnitzel.
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Janusz, now you try the schnitzel.
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The schnitzel is aus Fleisch.
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Das ist Kalbsfleisch.
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Es gibt auch Schnitzel mit Schweinefleisch und Hähnchenfleisch.
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Janusz, wie schmeckt es?
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Es schmeckt sehr lecker.
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Fleisch ist hier drinnen, aber draußen ist noch diese die panade ja es gibt einen
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teich das fleisch ist in der panade zum schnitzel
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gibt es beilagen janus was ist das das ist sauerkraut passt sauerkraut gut zum schnitzel hundertprozentig
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Das ist Sauerkraut, sehr populär in Deutschland.
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Wie schmeckt Sauerkraut?
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Schmeckt es sauer oder schmeckt es süß?
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Es schmeckt eindeutig süß -sauer.
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Okay.
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Janusz, das Sauerkraut, ist das warm oder kalt?
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Es ist warm, gemacht worden.
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Ich habe noch eine passende Beilage.
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Die Beilage zum Essen.
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Was ist das?
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Das sind Bratkartoffeln.
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Das sind Kartoffeln, die in einer Pfanne gebraten wurden.
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Magst du Bratkartoffeln?
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Natürlich.
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Bratkartoffeln sind lecker.
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Wie schmecken Bratkartoffeln?
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mmmm Sind die Kartoffeln gewürzt?
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Ich glaube, ja.
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Ein bisschen, ja.
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Schmecken sie salzig?
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Die schmecken nicht salzig.
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Sie schmecken einfach lecker.
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Okay.
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Kartoffeln sind in Deutschland sehr populär.
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Es gibt auch Kartoffelsalat.
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Janusz.
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So that's not so much.
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Not so much?
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No, we have a lot of other items.
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It tastes a little weird.
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It tastes a little sour. And...
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I find it delicious.
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This is a potato salad with an essence genau mit
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einer essigsauce und es gibt gurken und radieschen voll
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gut lecker wir haben noch mehr was ist das und
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das ist da sind drei bockwürste das ist eine wiener A Wienerwurst.
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A Wienerwurst.
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A Wienerwurst.
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A Wienerwurst.
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Janusz probiert ein Stück Wienerwürstchen.
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Aber kein Wienerwürstchen ohne Senf.
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Ich habe auch Senf gekauft für dich.
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First mal am Rand von meinem Teller, danke.
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Janusz probiert die Wienerwurst mit Senf.
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Janusz, isst man die Wurst warm oder kalt?
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Actually always warm, but our Wurst is cold.
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You can eat a Wurst warm and cold.
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I don't like it, cold.
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Not to empfehlen.
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Janusz, we make a little quiz.
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Der, die oder das Kartoffelsalat?
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Der Salat.
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Der Kartoffelsalat.
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Die Kartoffelsalate.
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Right, Janusz.
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Next word.
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Der, die oder das Gabel?
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Die Gabel.
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Die Gabel, die Gabeln.
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Ich bin gut.
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Janusz, der, die oder das Schnitzel?
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Der Schnitzel.
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Das Schnitzel, die Schnitzel.
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Richtig.
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Manchmal verwechselt man in der deutschen Sprache die Artikel.
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Das passiert auch dir noch nach vielen Jahren in Deutschland.
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Nach 42 Jahren in Deutschland und ich rate bis heute.
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And I'm really excited about this training, because I need it myself.
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We have just tried the Gender -Trainer from C -Lang.
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C -Lang is a great app, with which you can learn German on your phone.
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And Janusz and I are even in the app.
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You can download this app in the Google Play Store
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and the App Store of Apple
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and then you can just learn on your phone interactive German with videos and many great functions and with us.
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Viel Erfolg!
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Sucht einfach nach Siedleng.
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Was ist das?
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Das sind Matjes.
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Das ist Fisch, oder?
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Ja.
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Ich mag gar keinen Fisch.
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Und sind das Heringe?
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Matjes is a young Hering.
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Wow, young.
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Hering is the fish type and Matjes means young Hering.
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So like Rind.
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Baby Hering.
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Oh, the poor Hering.
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There is Rind meat and there is a cow.
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Cow is the young Rind.
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Janusz, I don't like fish.
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I think the fish smells also not good.
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What's with you?
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Do you like fish?
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I like fish very much, also in this form, it's special, but this sauce tastes like me not.
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This is fish in a dill sauce.
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Is this a remoulade sauce?
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It doesn't taste?
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It tastes good, but it's too sweet.
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The sauce is too sweet.
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Janusz, enough is enough. That looks good.
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What is this?
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This is a green soup.
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This is a herb soup.
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Herbs soup is in Germany very popular.
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I've never eaten it, honestly.
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Hey!
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It's a bowl.
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Janusz, try the Erbsensuppe.
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Janusz, how tastes the Erbsensuppe?
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The Erbsensuppe tastes good.
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It would help, I think, if it was warm.
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The Erbsensuppe, the we ordered.
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The Erbsensuppe was warm delivered, but now it's cold.
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Does it taste?
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It tastes great.
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As last, we try a typical German snack.
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What is that?
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This is a Brezel.
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When you eat a Brezel?
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When you want.
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Morgens, mittags, abends?
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Nachts.
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Immer.
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Immer.
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Allerdings is this Brezel a little lactose -free.
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No, this Brezel is gluten -free.
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Right, and you can see this Brezel a little bit.
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This Brezel is gluten -free, so it doesn't look so good and tastes not so good.
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I wouldn't believe that, the arme Brezel.
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Do you want to try it?
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Yes.
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Mmm, totally good.
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It's a bit hard.
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But it doesn't lie at the hotel, because you have already taken a few days here.
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Finally, we will show you all the things we tried.
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Very good.
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the schnitzel and the schnitzel that schnitzel i thought it was the schnitzel no,
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the schnitzel.
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Janusz, what did you taste best?
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with a bit the schnitzel with a bit the schnitzel then the sauerkraut the sauerkraut
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the sauerkraut, then the potatoes,
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then the soup, then the maties,
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then the bockwurst,
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yes that's wiener würstchen wiener würstchen dann der das kartoffelsalat
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der salat der kartoffelsalat mit der kartoffelsalat und und der die
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leckeren brezeln die brezeln waren der letzte platz ja aber immer noch sehr lecker naja den senst haben wir vergessen
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Janusz, what is your message to the end?
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My message is, people, eat yourself healthy and healthy.
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That would be good.
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No peanut butter, no bread, no potatoes.
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But Salate are good, right?
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Yes, maybe not necessarily a German potato salad.
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Yeah, it's not a salad, it's a hot salad, but...
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If you want more videos about eating, click here.
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Janusz and I have taken a lot of other videos, for example one, where we test more typical German products for you.
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Look here.
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Bye!
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Ciao!
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Would you like to prefer pretzels?
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yes and...
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Ah, you got food out of the mouth.
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That happens sometimes.
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Especially when you talk about it.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Learn to Talk About Food in German”. This video has 192 sentences and 1115 words to shadow. The speech runs for 12:39. The speaker talks slowly, about 88 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. Only 51% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding. 35 of its 192 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 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… |
| soup noun | /sup/ | Any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock, with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute the food… |
| potato noun | /pəˈteɪ.təʊ/ | The edible starchy tuber of the plant species Solanum tuberosum. |
| herb noun | /hɜːb/ | A plant whose stem is not woody and does not persist beyond each growing season. |
| gluten noun | /ˈɡluːtən/ | The major protein in cereal grains, especially wheat; responsible for the elasticity in dough and the structure in baked bread. |
| necessarily adverb | /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/ | Inevitably; of necessity. |
| knife noun | /ˈnaɪ̯f/ | A utensil or a tool designed for cutting, consisting of a flat piece of hard material, usually steel or other metal (the blade), usually sharpened on one edge… |
| butter noun | /ˈbʌtɚ/ | A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk). |
| delicious adjective | /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/ | Pleasing to the sense of taste; tasty. |
| 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… |
| essence noun | /ˈɛsəns/ | The inherent nature of a thing or idea. |
| ditch noun | /dɪt͡ʃ/ | A trench; a long, shallow indentation, as for irrigation or drainage. |
| peanut noun | /ˈpiˌnʌt/ | A legume resembling a nut, the fruit of the plant Arachis hypogaea, native to South America. |
| snack noun | /snæk/ | A light meal. |
| sour adjective | /ˈsaʊ.ə/ | Tasting of acidity. |
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 just tried · I've never eaten · have already taken |
| Future with “will” will + verb — a decision, promise or prediction | will try · will show |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 9 contractions and reduced forms, such as doesn't, don't, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: delicious /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/, schnitzel /ˈʃnɪts(ə)l/
- Long words — get the stress right: necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/, interactive /ˌɪn.tɚˈæk.tɪv/
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 salad, soup, potato.
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.