Shadowing Practice: Our Weekend in Slow German | Super Easy German 262 - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Hallo und herzlich Willkommen in unserem Wochenende.
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Janusz, wir zeigen unseren ZuschauerInnen heute, wie wir unser Wochenende verbringen.
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Was machst du?
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Ich chille grundsätzlich.
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Das zeigen wir euch jetzt.
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Los geht's!
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Janusz, we are at our weekend.
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What is actually a weekend?
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You explain it better than me, please.
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That word says it, the end of the week.
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Let's see what we are doing.
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Janusz, you go to your house and I go to mine.
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Okay, bye.
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Mein erster Programmpunkt am Wochenende ist Ausschlafen.
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Normalerweise ist mein Wecker unter der Woche auf 8 Uhr gestellt.
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Am Wochenende ist mein Luxus, dass ich den Wecker ausstelle und ausschlafe.
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Das Wort dafür ist ausschlafen.
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Das heißt, man schläft so lange, bis man aufwacht.
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Und das dauert manchmal bis 10 Uhr.
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Und dann fängt mein Wochenende an.
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Mal gucken, was Janusz macht.
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Janusz, wann stehst du am Samstag auf?
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Ich stehe auf, wenn ich aufwache.
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And this is then a bit later, probably around 12, so, like, right.
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Then there is a ritual, so I make a coffee,
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and I set myself up and I read my day one,
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Das ist eine Liste der Aufgaben und guck, was könnte ich heute dann machen, ja.
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Mein Samstagmorgen beginnt oft damit, dass ich mich um meine Pflanzen kümmere.
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Ich bin seit kurzem eine Pflanzenfreundin und versuche zu lernen,
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wie man diese Pflanzen am Leben hält.
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Bei diesem Basilikum habe ich es nicht geschafft.
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Die Pflanze ist gestorben.
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Hier im Garten haben wir eine Vollkatastrophe.
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Noch mehr trockene Pflanzen.
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Maybe we can help some of this.
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I'm going to make the dry leaves and make a lot of water on it.
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Look at what I plant here.
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This is a chili plant.
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And this is a Himbeere.
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It's time for my first chili to eat and to try it.
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Too much!
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Die Pflanzen die sterben!
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So, here is everything mega -trocken.
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And now we have another water -send.
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Eieiei!
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Oh, it hurts me.
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Kacke!
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Nein!
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Okay.
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Meine Pflanzen -Skills sind noch nicht so groß.
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Aber ich arbeite daran.
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Okay.
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Jetzt ist es Zeit zum Unkraut jäten.
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Das hier ist Unkraut.
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If I don't know how it goes, I'm calling my mom to my mom.
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Kochen is also a good activity for the weekend.
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Finally, you have time to have time.
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Let's see what Janusz kocht.
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So, at the weekend I have a little more time and that's why I also have a little more time to cook.
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I can only cook one thing and that is on German about a smorbraten.
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You smorst something?
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Okay.
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What do you cook now, Janusz?
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My ingredients are Hähnchenfleisch.
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Zwiebel, Reis und Gemüse.
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Janusz fängt an zu kochen.
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Er gibt das Öl in die Pfanne.
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Jetzt wartet er fünf minuten bis die
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pfanne heiß ist während janus wartet macht er musik
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so jetzt kommt das händchen fleisch da rein und es wird angebraten erst mal
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Janusz, you are making steps for cooking.
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What is that?
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That is a time clock.
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How is that in German?
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That is a timer.
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The timer is running for 21 minutes.
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Then...
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Then the rice is ready.
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Then the rice is ready.
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Janusz, do you get Chris and I something from your food?
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No, not.
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Schade, Janusz, that I don't get anything from your food.
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I'm going to play.
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Tschüss!
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Tschüss!
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While Janusz is cooking, we have a little time to talk about how you learn German.
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Easy German hat nämlich noch viel mehr im Angebot als nur Videos.
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Wir haben Videos und wir haben auch einen Easy German Podcast.
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Jede Woche nehme ich mit Manuel zwei Podcast -Episoden auf, hier im Easy German Studio und dann könnt ihr auch Deutsch hören,
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während ihr zum Beispiel in der U -Bahn sitzt, kocht oder putzt.
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Das Tolle ist, mit der Easy German Mitgliedschaft erhaltet ihr außerdem Zusatzmaterialien zum Üben und Lernen.
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Ihr bekommt Transkripte für unsere Videos und für den Podcast.
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Und beim Podcast ist das sogar ein interaktives Transkript, wo ihr jedes Wort, was gesprochen wird, seht und übersetzen könnt.
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Hallo Manuel!
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Frohe Weihnachten!
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Frohe Weihnachten!
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Willst du auch immer mitsingen, wenn du das Intro hörst?
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Probiert das mal aus.
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Der Easy German Podcast, den verlinken wir hier unten.
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Und den findet ihr auch in jeder Podcast -App.
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Und die Easy German Mitgliedschaft, die findet ihr unter easygerman .org.
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So Leute, jetzt seht ihr, wie ich mich richtig entspanne.
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Ich spiele gerne Computerspiele.
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In diesem Spiel muss ich eine Zivilisation aufbauen und andere Leute bekämpfen.
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Guck mal, der Mann wird jetzt Holz hacken.
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Und diese Menschen schlachten Ziegen.
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Und dieser Mann, der wird jetzt Häuser bauen.
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My food is cooked.
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I have now some time to read.
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I read very much, not only at the end of the week.
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I have about 3 .000 books, the most of them in my phone.
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But this time I read an analog book that a friend gave me gave me a gift.
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Am Wochenende verbringen Janusz und ich viel Zeit zu Hause in der Wohnung.
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Hier können wir gut entspannen,
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aber noch besser entspanne ich mich auf meinem Fahrrad und ich fahre gerne
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Fahrrad für zwei oder drei Stunden aus berlin einmal aus berlin
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raus das dauert schon eine stunde dann durch den wald und wieder zurück und das zeige ich euch jetzt
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hello janus hi was machst du denn da mache etwas sport etwas cardio Janusz trägt Socken in Flip Flops.
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Du machst Sport und spielst Piano?
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Ich weiß nicht, ob ich das Piano spiele, aber ich nutze das, um mich ein bisschen zu unterhalten.
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Ich spiele eigentlich gar kein Piano, aber ich kann ...
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Janusz, was machst du sonst noch, um dich am Wochenende zu entspannen?
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Yeah, I have in my room, actually the half of my room,
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is a fitness studio and I have a box, a box -bierne hanging.
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Rocky Balboa!
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I like this motorbike, I use it not really for boxing,
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but for cardio training, also I I move myself a lot. But I'm always afraid.
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Au!
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Then I have a handlebar. With two pieces?
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Yes, the pieces make sure that my back is better positioned.
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Okay.
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And so I stay healthy.
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Thank you, Janusz.
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So, welcome to our installation room.
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This room we also call the Kabuff or the installation room.
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Und eine Tätigkeit, die man gerne am Wochenende erledigt, ist Aufräumen und Ausmisten.
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Janusz, komm mal her.
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Ja?
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Ausmisten, kennst du das?
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Ja, ist ein scherzhaftes Wort.
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Ausmisten tut man einen Platz, wo Tiere stehen.
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But that's true, originally you mist a stall out.
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But what we do with Ausmisten is to look at, if we need something else.
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And if not, we throw it away.
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Microphone box.
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That could be in the room.
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No place in the room.
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Müll.
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Okay.
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What have we here?
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Oh, Müsli.
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That is in April, water.
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Look at this.
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Wow.
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This is a card from a Seedlang -Dreh.
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Hamerski live.
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Hä?
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Ja.
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I have two hands for the garden?
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Yes.
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They were mine and now they were yours.
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And what is that?
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That's your mother, I think, bought it.
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So you can see the trees.
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I don't know.
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Okay.
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What we have here is a wine collection, of course.
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I don't have too much of it.
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Janusz, this is my Backup -Bar.
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Yes.
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Kari, you can use water here.
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If you have water, I can still use my toilet.
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For example, I'm under the water. So, it's enough here.
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So, Leute, jetzt habt ihr gesehen, wie wir ein typisches Wochenende verbringen.
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Das Wichtigste haben wir noch vergessen.
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Janusz spielt Gitarre.
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Redest du noch mit uns, Janusz?
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Ja, ich könnte singen höchstens.
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Also, Janusz, eigentlich spielst du immer nur Gitarre, ne?
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Ja.
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Also a nice day.
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What do you do at the end?
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Write us a comment.
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We have not done everything from the end.
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What do we do?
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We meet friends.
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We watch films.
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We go to a restaurant.
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We go to dinner.
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Although we do something to do, that's our day. That irritates me total.
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Ich sage einfach Tschüss, Leute.
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Mich auch.
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Und bis bald.
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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 “Our Weekend in Slow German”. This video has 194 sentences and 1384 words to shadow. The speech runs for 14:49. The speaker talks slowly, about 93 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. Only 46% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

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

WordPronunciationMeaning
cardio noun/ˈkɑɹ.di.oʊ/Exercise with the goal of raising the heart rate by walking or running on the treadmill.
guck noun/ɡʌk/The hybrid offspring of a goose and a duck.
hallo verb/həˈləʊ/To shout, or to call with a loud voice.
immer nounA bird in genus Gavia.
timer noun/ˈtaɪmɚ/A device used to measure amounts of time.
chili noun/ˈt͡ʃɪli/The pungent, spicy fresh or dried fruit of any of several cultivated varieties of capsicum peppers, used in cooking.
installation noun/ˌɪn.stəˈleɪ.ʃən/An act of installing.
handlebar noun/ˈhændəlbɑːɹ/The bar used to steer a bicycle, motorbike, or similar vehicle using the hands.
irritate verb/ˈɪɹ.ɪˌteɪt/To provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure in.
motorbike verb/ˈmoʊtɚˌbaɪk/To ride a motorbike; to travel by motorbike.
oyster noun/ˈɔɪ.stɚ/Any of certain marine bivalve mollusks, especially those of the family Ostreidae (the true oysters), usually found adhering to rocks or other fixed objects in…
microphone noun/ˈmaɪ.kɹəˌfəʊn/A device (transducer) used to convert sound waves into a varying electric current; normally fed into an amplifier and either recorded or transmitted over radio.
analog adjective/ˈænəlɔɡ/In which the value of a data item (such as time) is represented by a continuous(ly) variable physical quantity that can be measured (such as the shadow of a…
ingredient noun/ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/One of the substances present in a mixture, especially food.
stall noun/stɔːl/A compartment for a single animal in a stable or cattle shed.

Grammar in this video

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

StructureIn the video
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — something happening right now or around noware doing · I'm calling · are making
Future with “going to” be going to + verb — a plan or something you can see comingI'm going to make · I'm going to play

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 9 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

  • Long words — get the stress right: installation /ˌɪn.stəˈleɪ.ʃən/, ingredient /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/

How to practise with this video

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

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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