Shadowing Practice: Mein Leben ohne Freunde. - Learn English Speaking with YouTube
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Social media, movies, or a look in the lives of others often tell us
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Social media, movies, or a look in the lives of others often tell us
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that we have to go out and go out and go out
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and we are brought up by many people who want all our friends to be.
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For example, Belly from The Summer I Turn Pretty,
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who is only going to Paris and in the first night already new friends,
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who then also have a year after a while.
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That's a good idea, isn't it?
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Yes, it just looked at me different.
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Since I've been in a million years in a million town,
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I've been in a million years,
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I've been able to connect new friendships.
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There were people who met me and had fun,
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but they were always just just a few times.
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Echte friendships are not made out of this.
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This is not a romantic story about how happy I am as a man without friends.
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I want to talk about something I think that many of us are experiencing,
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but not necessarily about talking about it.
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I remember I always had a social person.
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I had never many, but most often friends.
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I would like to find myself as a problem.
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I was never a problem with school or work.
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I had to meet myself and spend a few years together.
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I would like to call myself as a fair and fair.
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I am interested in other people.
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Sure, I have also my Ecken and Kanten, like everyone of us.
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Why also have I not friends today?
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I know that
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I'm a person who works best in small groups.
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person with a whole group and while I had to go to a party
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or do things on which I didn't so much have had to do I actually do not anymore.
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I had a phase where I just tried it to try to prove something to me
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but I had to do it every time actually have to do it
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that it that it didn't really have to be so much appreciated.
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And when I meet someone,
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I always care about whether the focus on,
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if this person asks me questions,
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if this person opens me, if I do it.
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It's usually about whether we are on a level of length and how this person looks like the world,
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and if we just understand ourselves.
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It's also so that I live in a large town
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and I'm currently living here for years the experience that it is so that when you meet these friends,
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that it has already been a few months or months before and that there is no spontaneity in any way.
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In fact, it is something that is not only my friend,
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but also always always me.
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As young people have always more time,
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we have a full calendar,
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we have maybe even families and then it makes it just simply that it doesn't feel like it before.
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But for me, it feels like it's just a little bit of a natural
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and it is not even my sense of friendship,
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this stentic eintakten and einschieben of treffen.
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And when I break it so so,
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then I feel like I can just call this feeling I can just call someone and ask,
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hey, do you have you today you have to spend the time.
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It's a little bit of time.
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It's something that is just something that is just about the old age.
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But I have the impression that some aspects of it are a sort of phenomenon.
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It's also so that the friendship,
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as probably every kind of relationship, is always working.
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And I would say that we,
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we have more or less energy capacity for life.
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I personally must say that I have in my current life phase
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not the desire and not the time to bring me up to my own life.
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I live with my partner together and it is definitely so,
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that he is a big part of my social life.
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And that's why I spend my free time with him or alone.
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I read a lot, I started to write,
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I make videos here, and to be honest,
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it's actually really that I feel like a Mangel,
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but actually like a Erholung.
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I think that it can not really be healthy,
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because I think, regardless of how and love to be a relationship with a relationship,
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it's always a bigger social network.
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It must not be a big issue,
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especially as introvertising person, I don't need it.
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But I think that it is important,
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especially as a woman, as a woman,
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as a friend to have.
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And yes, so long-term is it something that I always have in the back of the day and where I know,
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okay, I must work on it.
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But as I said, it's actually very good to me.
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That's so nothing where I would make me great big worries about it.
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I'm convinced that it will just happen again,
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especially when I'm here away,
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because I feel in this city at all and I have not really been able to find anyone else.
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Yeah, and I have often felt that feeling that there is not to be a person in the world just like that.
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But that is of course a observation that goes from myself.
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I have noticed over the last years,
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that I will get faster ungodly,
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that I also lose that interest in a person when it doesn't click.
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I don't have to invest more time or energy in someone to get started,
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if I feel that it just doesn't fit.
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It's also not so that I would not try it.
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I've been very often with someone who has been treated,
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although I didn't really feel the connection to the beginning,
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but that I gave it to me.
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If that's a mistake, I don't know.
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not.
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Then when I think back to people with whom I have to do a deep connection,
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even if we don't see us often,
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then it's always so that it's always from the beginning to go well and that it's just from the beginning to click.
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And that's but of course,
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although at the beginning Smalltalk has been found,
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so if you know, that I already know that I have a lot of deep-sinnical conversations,
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but it's not so that I not even an overall part of my own.
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Smalltalk is something that I think is a bit of a bit of a way to get into it,
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whether you like it or not.
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And if we want to know someone to know,
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then there are just certain questions that are overall,
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which are now but not so bad.
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In my experience, it was always the problem that it never really changed.
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That also was about every meeting an overall part of and when I tried to make a little initiative,
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it was often happened to me,
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it was just a little bit of a problem.
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And so I often had many trips
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as a challenge and I was always just tired and happy
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that I had to be able to get it and that should friendship just not be I think.
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And if I reflect that,
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I think that it also kind of like I'm the surface person because I often give people the chance I don't give.
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Also, do I kind of criticize what I'm not sure?
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I don't know.
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Are we all kind of paradoxes?
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I don't know.
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But to this Zeitgeist is my general impression that we are more or more of a more,
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that we also often look at what we can get from someone.
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Sei das jetzt die Befriedigung unseres Egos oder teilweise auch materielle Dinge,
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statt eben auf tiefe Verbindungen und echte Gespräche zu setzen.
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Ich denke, dass unsere Beziehungen zu anderen Menschen immer auch ein Spiegel unserer eigenen Welt sind.
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Mein Leben ohne enge Freunde ist nicht das,
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was ich mir langfristig wünsche.
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Aber ich bin ehrlich genug,
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um zuzugeben, dass ich gerade auch nicht weiß,
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ob und wie ich es ändern will.
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Wenn wir zwar Menschen um uns herum haben,
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aber trotzdem das Gefühl niemanden zu haben,
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können wir uns folgendes fragen.
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Verbringe ich mit Person X gerne Zeit,
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weil wir eine echte Verbindung haben oder will ich einfach nur nicht alleine sein?
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Der Mangel an Freundschaften muss nicht zwangsläufig bedeuten,
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dass mit uns etwas nicht stimmt.
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Jeder Every person has his own time.
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I think that's all.
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Maybe some of the phases are like a window.
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Sometimes they are open, sometimes they are closed.
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And sometimes we don't know what's behind it.
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If we don't have a sleep phase without friends, it's not a problem.
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Because if you're alone and have a friend,
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at the end of the day we are all still social beings
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and we have to be more than je to be careful not to be upset.
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The first step is perhaps exactly what we are doing.
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Think about it and talk about it.
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Thank you for the opportunity and if you like,
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let me give you your thoughts or thoughts about it.
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Why practice speaking with this video?
This video, titled "Mein Leben ohne Freunde", offers a unique perspective on friendship and social isolation through personal storytelling. Engaging with this content allows English learners to practice speaking in a relatable context. By reflecting on the speaker's experiences with friendships, viewers can not only improve their English speaking skills but also gain insight into emotional expression and conversational depth. Utilizing the shadowing technique—where learners mimic the speaker's words and intonation—can enhance fluency and confidence in speaking. As you shadow this video, you’ll find opportunities to practice everyday expressions and phrases that reflect social interactions, which are crucial for real-life conversations.
Grammar & Expressions in Context
In this video, several key grammatical structures and expressions can enhance your understanding and speaking abilities:
- Comparative Structures: The speaker compares feelings and experiences, such as “not necessarily about talking about it”. This helps learners understand how to express contrasts or comparisons effectively in conversations.
- Past Tense Narration: The use of past tense is prominent, as in “I had a phase where I just tried it”. Practicing this structure will benefit learners in narrating personal stories or experiences.
- Conditional Clauses: Phrases like “if this person asks me questions” showcase how conditional sentences work in English. Mastering these will aid learners in expressing hypothetical situations.
- Expressing Emotions: The use of emotive language, such as “it feels like it’s just a little bit of a natural”, allows for more nuanced communication, essential for effective speaking.
Common Pronunciation Traps
While shadowing this video, learners might encounter certain pronunciation challenges:
- Emphasizing Contractions: Pay attention to contractions like “I’ve” or “it’s”. These are often spoken quickly, and mastering them can enhance the natural flow of your speech.
- Word Stress: Important words may have different stress patterns. For example, phrases such as “real friendships” require a focus on the correct syllables to be understood clearly.
- Intonation Changes: Note the speaker's rise and fall in pitch, especially when expressing doubt or contemplation. Practicing this can add emotional depth to your English speaking practice.
By focusing on these aspects while engaging with the video, learners will not only develop their speaking skills but also gain a richer understanding of the language, making their practice sessions more effective. Utilizing any shadowing site or resources like shadowspeak will further enhance your learning experience, facilitating a smoother and more enjoyable journey towards fluency.
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