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Herzlich willkommen zurück im Easy German Podcast.
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Heute mit Manuel, mit Kari und mit unserem wunderbaren, zauberhaften Gast, Lara.
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Hi, danke für die Einladung und danke, dass ich hier sein durfte und danke, dass es auch ganz flexibel an einem Samstag geklappt hat, würde ich auch nochmal sagen.
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We are today on a Sunday.
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And Lara, we have known you before a while ago and were very impressed with how well you speak German,
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almost accent -free German.
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And you told us, you have learned German actually very alone.
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No school, no teacher, only you and easy German.
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Yes, that's right.
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That made us kind of like a new one.
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So we have invited you today to speak with you about it, how you did it.
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And also, maybe, about your methods.
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Because there are probably many of you out there, who have to learn German or want and ask yourself what is the right method?
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And is it really good, if you just learn alone?
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Lara, tell us first, where you came from and how long you've already been in Germany.
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I'm Lara, I'm from Syriac, from Latakia, from the coastline of Syria.
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I'm now four and a half years in Germany.
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I've come 2022.
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I work here as a doctor.
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Do you live in Bremen, in the beautiful city?
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Yes, I already live in Bremen.
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How do you like it?
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I don't think I can compare it, because I was just anywhere else, maybe in Berlin, but I think Bremen is a small, sweet city.
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There you can also be directly in the water and it's actually very nice.
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What can you recommend to visit?
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Ja, es kann natürlich aber ein bisschen langweilig sein für Leute, die irgendwie in großen Städten gewohnt sind, aber ja, kann ich auf jeden Fall empfehlen.
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Nimm uns mal mit, du sagst, du bist seit viereinhalb Jahren in Deutschland und kommst aus Syrien.
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Wie war denn dein Leben vorher?
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Seit wann wusstest du, dass du nach Deutschland gehen möchtest und wann hast du angefangen, Deutsch zu lernen?
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My life was really just from medicine and I worked as a Dolmetscher.
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As a Dolmetscher?
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Yes, it was between English and Arab English and Tiere retten.
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That was really the center of my life in Syrien.
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And I think I told Manuel a little bit about it, that I was a Streber.
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That was my life between 18 and 24.
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Und dann nach Ende meines Studiums, ich wollte sowieso von Anfang an auswandern, schon seitdem ich ein Teenager war.
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Und ich wollte erst mal zu einem englischsprachigen Land, weil ich gar keinen Bock hatte, eine neue Sprache zu lernen.
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Und dann war es mir klar, so mit 24, 25, dass Deutschland eigentlich der einfachste und schnellste Weg vor allem für Ärzte ist.
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Warum?
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I think because the doctors are here needed.
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And the whole bureaucratic process is a bit, say I say, not so complicated,
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as for example if you want to go to the United States or Australia.
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It is a bit, it is of course a bit, but it is a bit a bit a bit a bit.
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Okay, the bureaucratic process is a bit a bit, but then there is still the language.
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Man muss schon gutes Deutsch sprechen, um hier als Ärztin arbeiten zu dürfen.
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Genau.
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Und ich habe ganz oft gehört, dass die Leute viele Schwierigkeiten mit der Sprache haben.
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Und deswegen hatte ich gar keinen Bock drauf am Anfang.
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Und ich dachte ja, ich könnte sowieso gut Englisch, dann kann ich einfach erstmal zu einem Englischsprachenland.
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Und ich muss sagen, warum ich mich dann letztendlich für Deutschland entschieden habe.
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Weil viele Freunde wollen auch nach Deutschland.
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Und ich dachte ja, es wäre cool, wenn man irgendwie mit seinen Leuten da ist.
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And then I thought, why not?
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Then we'll do it in Germany.
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What did you know about Germany?
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Well, honestly, what I knew about Germany was about Germany, were the typical consequences of the negative things.
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What do you mean?
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A lot of bureaucracy.
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A little Xenophobia.
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Also, a lot of weather.
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People are cold and have no emotions.
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so was in der richtung und dann dachtest du top das
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ist mein land genau hat mich ein bisschen erschrocken natürlich aber ich dachte mir
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so ja es wäre glaube ich in jedem europäischen land genauso
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also ich weiß nicht ob es jetzt krasse unterschiede gab aber ich dachte mir so naja wir probieren mal
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And then there is still the language, so you didn't speak German before 6 years, or when did you start?
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About 5 years, I would say.
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I was 25, I started with 25 and I came with 26 to Germany.
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So the whole learning process has been about a year.
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What did you do after a year?
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I already had the B2 -Prüfung.
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Wow.
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Also von 0 auf B2 in einem Jahr und bist du
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in der Zeit in eine Sprachschule gegangen in Syrien oder was hast du gemacht?
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Nee, weil ich wollte es, das war mir klar von Anfang an, ich wollte überhaupt nicht in eine Sprachschule.
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Diese ganze konventionelle Methode war für mich von Anfang an, also ich gebe euch ein Beispiel, ich könnte sehr gut Englisch und das lag glaube ich daran,
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dass ich als Teenager so viel Medien konsumiert habe.
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Und ich dachte mir so, okay, ich mache das genauso mit Deutsch, aber ich mache das ein bisschen intensiver.
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And that was my idea.
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I didn't want to go to a language school three times a week and then have a job.
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That didn't want to go.
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And then you just looked at YouTube.
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Yeah, I must say, at the beginning it was very chaotic.
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I was not structured.
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I had no plan.
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Mein Plan war, ich will nicht in einer Sprachschule.
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Und ich dachte mir so, okay, ich muss einfach ein kleines Deutschlands bei mir zu Hause bauen.
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Also ich muss einfach viel Exposition.
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Ich weiß, das ist der Schlüssel beim Sprachlernen.
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Und dann habe ich über YouTube geguckt.
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Ich habe nach einer guten Quelle gesucht und da gibt es eigentlich viele.
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Und dann bin ich über Easy German gestolpert.
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Und genau, das war, glaube ich, für mich erstmal der Vorteil beim Easy German war, so that you have so Unterdill -Funktion and that makes it much easier
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because I don't have to do it directly in a different window, because I had to learn with my laptop.
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And have you then just opened our Anfänger -Videos, our Playlist with the A1 -Videos and just started to look at it?
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Yeah.
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Also das erste Mal, ehrlich gesagt, als ich Easy German Videos aufgemacht habe, ich glaube ich B1.
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Also ich habe ein bisschen mehr fortgeschrittene Videos aufgemacht, nur um zu gucken, wie reden denn die Leute?
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Wie klingt die Sprache überhaupt?
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Und das finde ich wirklich super.
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Das finde ich wird oft unterschätzt, dass man erst mal so sich die Sprachmelodie anhört und erst mal schaut, wie klingt diese Sprache überhaupt?
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Das ist echt super.
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Genau.
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Wie klangen die denn für dich?
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Freundlich oder?
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Ganz kantig.
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Kantig, that's a good word.
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Kantig.
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But at the beginning, I can remember, there was a easy German video with Carrie at the beginning.
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And I thought, where do I start?
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I could...
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I don't understand.
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I thought, oh, that's going to be difficult.
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And then, as I said, it was not structured, I had no plan.
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It's not that I started with A1 and A2.
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Ich habe so ganz random, natürlich erst mal mit Anfänger -Niveau, wie zum Beispiel, wie sagt man Hallo, wie macht man so einen Smalltalk.
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Genau, und so habe ich angefangen.
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Ich dachte mir, Easy German ist dann die Quelle.
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Dann hast du also mit unseren Videos und ich vermute auch ein paar anderen Videos einfach jeden Tag geguckt oder wie oft?
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Wie viele Stunden am Tag hast du YouTube geschaut?
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More or less than Kari?
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More than Janusz or not?
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I don't know how much Janusz has been on YouTube.
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Well, eight hours.
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Okay, I think that was very different from the day to the day.
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But I would say that there were days where I had six hours spent, where I had time.
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How did I do that?
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For me, learning was for me either active or passive.
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And I thought that I had to do some kind of activity. About 40%.
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That's enough. And...
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40 % what?
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From the whole learning process.
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Because I really had 60 % passive learning.
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And 40 % active.
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Also passive means that you have watched videos, podcasts, heard.
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You have now not actively spoken or vocabulary learned.
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Right.
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Ohne actively doing something.
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I didn't really have to do anything merken.
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Und für mich aktives Lernen habe ich dann mit Easy German gemacht, indem ich, ich habe mir das Video vielleicht ein,
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zwei, dreimal geguckt, nur um erstmal zu verstehen, ganz grob, was wird da gesagt?
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Und dann habe ich angefangen, Sätze aufzuschreiben, wo ich merke, das könnte ein Satz, was ich irgendwann anwenden könnte.
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Ein interessanter Satz.
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Und ich habe die so irgendwie erst Sätzebausteine oder Sätzefragmente aufgeschrieben.
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Weil für mich war es wirklich wichtig, I can't learn with words.
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I have to learn everything in a relationship or in a context.
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And I thought it would be much easier if I...
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the whole sentence can, instead of having to give me the word in my head in my head.
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I have written the sentence in my head in my head.
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And then I have written the sentences off, and that is actually a very important point, to learn.
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I have written them off and then at the end, of course it was always for you to ask a question, then I have always tried to write my own answer to formulate.
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Okay, so our Straßinterviews, And then you looked at how Janusz the people interviewed and at the end did you do it, as if Janusz would interview you.
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Yes, and there comes a very important point, and that is this Monologue, so Selbstgespräche.
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You have to start from the beginning with active speaking.
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That's always been punished, because I have the feeling that Sprachlehrende can often much better understand than what they themselves produce.
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That is, I would say, the standard problem of many Easy German Fans.
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They have now a super understanding of our podcast, because they watch our videos.
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And then sometimes Angst vorm Sprechen.
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And you say, you have just spoken with yourself.
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Also, you can't have any of the German?
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No. I had to say, for example, if I have written my own answer, then I repeat it.
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And I was very excited about it, as I repeated it.
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I had the feeling, okay, so you speak German.
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But why did you know that, what you said, was right or wrong?
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I didn't know that.
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It was really a trial and error.
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I had no plan and I thought, I'll try it just so and I'll see if it works and it's just super working.
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Werbung This method, which you have just described us, which means just to speak,
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it works, if you are so motivated like you, maybe even just alone, but at best it works in a group,
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with a group of other learners.
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And Cari, for example, we have an offer for you.
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Was für eine Überleitung, Manuel.
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Ich war selber gerade überrascht von unserem Werbe -Jingle, aber es stimmt natürlich.
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Also viele Menschen schaffen das vielleicht nicht, ganz alleine zu lernen und dafür haben wir ein Angebot.
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Das gab es noch nicht, als du vor sechs Jahren Deutsch gelernt hast.
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Wir haben jetzt die Easy German Conversation Membership und da sind tatsächlich Menschen aus aller Welt, auch aus Syrien und die sprechen online zusammen.
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Wir haben täglich moderierte Zoom -Calls, wo man dann eine Fragestellung hat, oft auch aus unseren Videos.
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Also man guckt vorher ein Video und dann werden die Fragen
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aus den Videos in kleinen Gruppen immer mit drei bis vier Menschen diskutiert.
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Genau.
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Und das ist wirklich, wie du schon gesagt hast, total wichtig, dass man nicht nur passiv lernt,
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sondern sich zwingt, dann auch den Schritt ins aktive Lernen und ins Sprechen zu machen.
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Wenn ihr das mal ausprobieren wollt, werdet ein Mitglied auf easygerman .org slash Membership in der Conversation Membership.
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Man kann das auch einfach mal einen Monat lang ausprobieren, mal zwei-, drei-, viermal pro Woche zu unseren Zoom -Calls kommen und schauen, wie das funktioniert.
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Es ist wirklich eine tolle Gemeinschaft.
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Manuel, du hast ja auch dir mehrere Sprachen selbst beigebracht und ich glaube, du bist auch nicht so ein klassischer Lerntyp, der so in die Schule geht.
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Hast du das denn, hast du das so alleine gemacht, dass du wirklich mit dir alleine sprichst?
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Also ich habe schon immer auch viel alleine geübt, so wie du, aber ich hatte immer auch Sprachunterricht als Baustein.
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Also ich bin sehr beeindruckt, dass du in einem Jahr auf ein B2 -Niveau gekommen bist, ganz ohne, ja, Schulunterricht oder Lehrer.
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Ja, was ist deine Frage, Kari?
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Ob ich das auch kann?
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Nein.
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Ja, weil ich finde das faszinierend.
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Das muss, man muss ja auch einen gewissen, also es ist ja auch ein bisschen eine Charakterfrage, ne, ob man so glücklich ist mit sich selbst, alleine zu Hause.
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Es ist aber vielleicht auch eine finanzielle Frage manchmal oder auch eine logistische Frage, weil viele Menschen leben an einem Ort,
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wo sie vielleicht nicht jederzeit mit jemandem sprechen können.
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Ich finde das aber interessant, weil du hast dich ja bewusst dafür entschieden, dass du sagst, okay, ich gehe jetzt nicht in eine Schule, da wird mir langweilig.
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Ich möchte das alleine selbst machen und ich kreiere mir sogar eine kleine deutsche Welt bei mir zu Hause.
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Vielleicht kannst du uns noch mal so ein paar Tipps geben, wenn jetzt jemand zuhört und sagt, boah, das möchte ich auch besser machen, dass ich mir ein bisschen,
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dass ich mir wirklich Struktur gebe.
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Hattest du Have you made yourself a plan of teaching?
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You said you have these 60 -40 rules, passive -active rules.
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What rules did you have for yourself?
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I didn't have rules for myself.
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My rule was, I want to bring so much German content into it.
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That was really the plan.
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And I had to look every day, how much time I had for German.
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And then, I think for me it was so, I had motivation.
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I loved it, learning German.
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And so I could really sit there for hours.
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And I think that's really the key.
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I had no plan, so yeah, okay, today I sit two or three hours, and tomorrow...
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I didn't.
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It was every day.
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I looked at how much time I had for German.
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And I, like I said, I had a lot of time invested in it.
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And what was your motivation?
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You probably knew you wanted to go to Germany.
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Yeah.
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Hattest du noch andere Tricks, wie du dich motivieren kannst?
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Weil das ist etwas, was ich bei mir selbst merke, dass ich eine sehr starke Motivation habe, zum Beispiel Französisch zu lernen, wenn ich weiß, in drei Wochen fahre ich nach Paris.
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Ja.
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Aber sobald ich dieses Ziel nicht mehr habe oder diese Reise, ist bei mir auch die Motivation weg, wieder mehrere Stunden am Tag zu lernen.
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Ja, du hast aufgehört wieder mit Französisch.
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I have only then Motivation, when I know that I'm soon in the country.
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Yes, that's right.
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For me, it was the motivation.
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I heard only how many people have problems with integration with the language.
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And I thought, I would like to make my country in Germany so nice as possible.
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That was of course a great motivation. And secondly, for me,
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it was a whole new world where I could look at YouTube videos about different teams that have been interested in
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and I could see them.
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That was also a big motivation.
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There was a lot of cool content on German, on YouTube.
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And I thought, that was actually a moment where I noticed, that everything has paid.
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I could see videos about scientific teams and see everything and see everything.
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That was, I think, one of the goals.
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And have you then not missed your own normal media?
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Because so it's for me then.
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I watch two videos easy French, if I learn French, but then I see on YouTube, there are all the German or English -speaking content, which I look at.
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Also, how did you manage that?
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You said you had a little German on it, the other things then to ignore.
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I have to say that I was not a medium consumer.
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I have not consumed so much medium in other languages.
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But in English?
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In the time I didn't.
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I had as a teenager so much music, so many films watched.
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But I was not the...
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I was not the...
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I didn't use YouTube.
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I didn't watch YouTube videos on English or so.
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And that's why I didn't miss anything.
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Yeah, I have then, I think, through German discovered that there are so many cool contents,
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I can give them all of them and yeah.
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For those who are at home and think, okay, YouTube I have, Easy German, already abonniert.
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I have time to give us some concrete, three or four methods, which you have used.
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Because you have not only looked at, you have also also actively learned, or you have also actively learned.
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Exactly, that was the first point I already said.
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Really, all the words.
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Not only words.
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Not with words.
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That's not what I did.
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The second point was, I didn't start with Grammatics.
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Also Grammatik habe ich gar nicht, ich habe erst mal, ich dachte, ich muss einen Wortschatz haben und irgendwann habe ich,
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glaube ich, ab B1 ein bisschen mehr auf Grammatik konzentriert, ich habe mich konzentriert, aber es ist ein Phänomen, ich weiß nicht, ob es auch bei jedem so,
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aber irgendwann entwickelt man so ein Gefühl für die Sprache, so eine Intuition und man weiß, wenn sich ein Satz falsch anhört,
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man weiß, ich muss das nicht unbedingt erklären können, aber ich weiß, es ist falsch, because I've heard
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No, I don't have to worry about Grammatics.
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I don't have to worry about it.
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I have to worry about Selbstgespräche, Monologe, that's all very important.
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What have you done so?
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Okay, we have already said that you have sometimes the question from the street answered yourself.
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What can you do as Selbstgespräche?
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I have then, for example, when I wrote the sentences, I tried every day before I started to look at the list
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and look at what I wrote
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and I try to describe them in the context to say or to use them in one sentence.
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If it's just one sentence, then I try to say one, two sentences. So a Phantasy -Dialog?
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Yes.
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And before my study was so, I focused on the most common themes, such as Klimaschutz or Gleichberechtigung.
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And then I looked at videos or I looked at texts, darüber gelesen und ich habe versucht, das auswendig zu lernen.
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Also wirklich den ganzen Text auswendig zu lernen.
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Das ist natürlich aufwendig, aber ...
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Wie eine Schauspielerin.
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Ja.
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Aber was hilft dir das dann, wenn du einen Text zum Beispiel von irgendeiner Nachrichtenseite oder so auswendig lernst?
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Weil du willst ja nicht in der Prüfung den genauen Text schreiben.
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Oder hilft dir das dann quasi Strukturen or phrases to use, which you can use in such a text?
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No, I would not have the whole text, my head would not have to call it, but I could have a few sentences,
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I could have a few sentences in the moment, what I could say directly.
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I don't have to call it the whole text, but I had a few things, which I could say.
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And so I was a little bit nervous, because I knew that I know a few things about it and that was for me the case.
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In my B2 Proofing was the topic of Gleichberechtigung.
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And I had, I think, to that topic really so many things read and looked at it.
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And I was very nervous before the Proofing and especially the demutical Proofing.
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And then I saw that this is Gleichberechtigung.
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And then, I think, I have so, I have in the moment so good spoken and I could like, I could be in many things erinnern.
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It was not in the same Reihe or in the same episode, but I could be in many things erinnern and I have so, also, they were all so beeindruckt by the Prüfung.
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Then they said to me, you don't need to say anything, everything is good.
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I have also so schnell gered.
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So like now?
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Yeah.
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I have that super often as a tip heard, that you don't who doesn't learn any other words so much and then try to build new words,
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but rather start with all the words.
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The words will get you later out of each other.
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But that gives you a self -sicher.
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But Lara, you were then, after this year, that you were in Syria alone Deutsch learned, actually moved to Germany.
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What did you change then?
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Then you had...
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And how good was your Deutsch, as you came here?
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I think that was good enough, at all, because I landed directly in a WG.
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In a German WG?
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Yes, we were five and they were all German.
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They were all so fascinated and impressed by my language.
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That gave me of course a lot of consciousness.
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The Hemmings of the speaking was already gone.
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I had no more fear about the German speaking obwohl du
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mit deutschen ja nie gesprochen hast genau außer vielleicht in der
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prüfung ja sogar in der prüfung waren sie nicht deutsch die
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waren ja das war in jordanien und das heißt du kommst
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dann an in deutschland hast die ganze zeit nur alleine zu
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hause in deinem zimmer gesprochen und plötzlich bist du in einer
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deutschen wg und du hattest keine angst zwar auf jeden fall
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am anfang aufregend weil man hat natürlich man macht sich so viele gedanken wie komme Now I'm going to go over, I'm going to speak good German.
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And then it was so good.
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And the reaction of the other people gave me a lot of self -consciousness.
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And then later it was made it easier.
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That's interesting, because I also know this story from the other direction.
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At the beginning someone made a comment, you speak not good enough, For example, the same thing.
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And that led to the same thing, that the person didn't trust to speak.
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And for you, it was so that you had at the beginning, you received a lot and then realized, okay, I can trust myself.
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And I also noticed that there were many difficulties that other people had.
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Sprachly I didn't have any difficulties.
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And There was for me, I was already with B2 here and directly,
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I came to Germany and then was for me the second phase, was the Fachspracheprofung.
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I had to focus on the medicine language
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and there I had only three months learned and I had the Prüfung in three months.
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Also das heißt, du hattest Medizin ja in Syrien studiert und kanntest die Fachbegriffe auf Arabisch und du musstest dann jetzt erstmal anfangen,
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die medizinischen Fachbegriffe auf Deutsch zu lernen.
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Genau, und es ging natürlich in der Prüfung nicht nur um die Begriffe an sich, sondern man musste auch Anamnese machen, man musste auch mit den Ärzten, da waren auch Prüfe.
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Anamnese Entschuldigung, ich habe es vergessen Das sind die Fachbegriffe Anamnese ist das
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Gespräch mit den Patienten wo man nach Symptomen fragt und das
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war für mich auch eine andere Herausforderung da musste ich direkt mich drauf konzentrieren Und mit echten Patienten sprechen?
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Habe ich gar nicht Ich habe zu Hause In der Prüfung musstest du zeigen theoretisch kann ich dann mit Patienten sprechen Genau,
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da hat ein Arzt die Rolle des Patienten genommen und der hat mir dann Symptome erzählt und der wollte gucken, wie würde ich darauf reagieren, was würde ich da fragen und ja.
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Wahnsinn.
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Heute arbeitest du in einem Krankenhaus in Deutschland, bist jeden Tag in Kontakt mit anderem medizinischem Personal,
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mit Ärztinnen und Ärzten und PflegerInnen, PatientInnen.
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How is that for you?
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What role is the language for you today in the everyday life?
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I think as a nurse, that is actually the A and O.
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I think and I have the feeling that the patients have much more trust in the doctor, when they realize that he can speak good German.
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Because as a patient, I don't have the feeling that I'm not understanding oder mir würden die Sachen nicht genug ausreichend erklärt.
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Und das kann ich verstehen.
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Und von daher eigentlich ist die Sprache wirklich das A und O, wie man bei den Patienten rüberkommt.
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Hattest du denn auch mal Probleme, dass Patienten dich nicht verstanden haben?
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Oder vielleicht Vorurteile hatten und gesagt haben?
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Eigentlich nicht.
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Das war, würde ich sagen, ich hatte so ein paar Situationen, wo ich den Namen von dem Patienten falsch ausgesprochen habe, because there was an Ü or Ü.
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And then they corrected me, and they were a little bit embarrassed.
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But in general and in general, I had actually no negative experiences with the patient.
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They ask me always the question, which is a landfrau?
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Which is a landfrau?
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So they say that.
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I think, which is a landfrau, which is a landfrau?
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That means, where are they coming from?
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Yeah, but I think the people have heard often, you should not ask, where they come from and now...
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But it's also...
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It's probably older people, right?
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That's true.
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It's an older word, right?
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What are you doing for a landsman?
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What are you doing for a landsfrau?
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Right, and when I tell you, I come from Syrien and when they know how long I'm in Germany, then they also...
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We talk then about language learning and that's always a nice relationship.
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Yeah.
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Schön.
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Wir sind jetzt leider schon am Ende, liebe Lara.
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Ich habe noch so viel mehr Fragen, aber die besprechen wir gleich in der Aftershow, Manuel.
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Ja.
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Sag uns doch noch zum Abschluss, wo du so viel Content konsumiert hast.
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Easy German hast du jetzt viel hier gelobt und beworben,
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aber die Leute freuen sich immer auch über Filmempfehlungen, Serienempfehlungen, Musikempfehlungen.
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Hast du da was gefunden, was du so richtig mal empfehlen möchtest?
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Also Filme, ich kann mich noch an einen Film erinnern, Die Welle heißt das.
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Oh ja, das ist ein guter Film.
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Das ist ein sehr guter Film.
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Musik ist ein bisschen schwierig leider auf Deutsch.
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Wieso?
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Was soll das denn heißen?
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Also ich fand damals, was mir empfohlen würde, war tatsächlich nur Schlagermusik.
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Und damals wusste ich gar nicht, dass Schlagermusik, dass es so einen Begriff gibt.
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Und das ist eigentlich peinlich, Schlagermusik zu hören.
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Du dachtest, das ist das, was die Deutschen hören.
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Many Deutsch learners love Schlagermusik.
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But do they love Schlagermusik, or have they just nothing else known?
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We have made us here often about Schlagermusik.
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And every time E -Mails received from people who said, I'm a Helene Fischer -Fan.
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Oh God, that Helene Fischer would be me directly.
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Atomless, blah, blah, blah.
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Also, the thing is...
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That's a good song.
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For me, as someone who didn't know the language, I loved it, of course, but now I know, it's peinlich to say, I've heard the whole thing about Therine Fischer.
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I found it at the same time.
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Everyone should listen to what he wants.
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Do you have no Lieblingsband in Germany?
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Oder im deutschsprachigen Raum?
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Nein, leider nicht.
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Ich sage euch, aber ich hatte ein Lieblingslied schon.
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Das ist eigentlich, ich glaube, die heißen Die Atzen.
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Die Atzen, oh Gott.
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Das ist, also die haben so ein Lied, glaube ich, das heißt Was geht ab?
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Hey, was geht ab?
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Wir feiern die ganze Nacht.
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Genau, ein bekannter Party -Song.
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Ja, verlinken wir euch in den Shownotes.
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Manuel, hast du dazu auch schon getanzt?
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Also ich glaube, man kommt da kaum drum rum, wenn man in Deutschland lebt.
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Irgendwann, wenn alle richtig besoffen sind, dann kommt dieses Lied.
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Deutsche haben auf jeden Fall einen, sag ich mal, interessanten Musik - und Partygeschmack.
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Also, ja.
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Spannend.
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Lara, danke, dass du bei uns warst.
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In der Aftershow quatschen wir gleich noch ein bisschen weiter.
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Zum Beispiel darüber, machst du überhaupt noch Fehler im Deutschen oder nicht?
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Wann hast du damit aufgehört?
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Und was quatschen wir noch?
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whatever you want.
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I can also music recommendations give.
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Oh, okay.
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As Easy German Mitglied in the Learner - oder Conversation -Membership you get a special podcast feed with our Transkript,
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Vokabelhelfer and the Aftershow after every episode.
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Thank you, that you were there, Lara.
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Thank you for the invitation.
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And it was very fun.
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Tschüss, people.
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Ciao.
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Thank you.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “She Learned Accent Free German On Her Own”. This video has 515 sentences and 5163 words to shadow. The speech runs for 31:31. The speaker talks at a natural 164 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. Only 53% 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:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| muss verb | /mʌs/ | To rumple, tousle or make (something) untidy. |
| hause noun | /hɔːs/ | A col, a lower neck or ridge between two peaks: a mountain pass. |
| immer noun | A bird in genus Gavia. | |
| ditch noun | /dɪt͡ʃ/ | A trench; a long, shallow indentation, as for irrigation or drainage. |
| passive adjective | /ˈpæs.ɪv/ | Being subjected to an action without producing a reaction. |
| paar noun | A hypothesized shifting of four geologic blocks: northeast Africa west of Red Sea and north of the Ethiopian valley, the Arabian Peninsula, the Sinai… | |
| teenager noun | /ˈtiːnˌeɪ̯d͡ʒə/ | A person between thirteen and nineteen years old (inclusive). |
| podcast noun | /ˈpɑdˌkæst/ | A program, especially an audio program, produced on a regular basis, delivered over the Internet in a compressed digital format and designed for playback on… |
| angst noun | /ˈæŋ(k)st/ | Emotional turmoil; painful sadness; anguish. |
| bureaucratic adjective | /ˌbjʊəɹəˈkɹætɪk/ | Of or pertaining to bureaucracy or the actions of bureaucrats. |
| diesis noun | /ˈdaɪ.ə.sɪs/ | Any of several intervals, smaller than a tone, in ancient Greek music. |
| klar noun | In Karen animism, one of the thirty-seven spirits that are said to embody every individual. | |
| learner noun | /ˈlɜɹnəɹ/ | One who is learning; one receiving instruction. |
| mâche noun | Valerianella locusta, a small dicot annual plant of the family Caprifoliaceae often cultivated as a salad green or herb. | |
| seine noun | /seɪn/ | A long net having floats attached at the top and sinkers (weights) at the bottom, used in shallow water for catching fish. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| go over verb | To look at carefully; to scrutinize; to analyze. |
| think through verb | To fully consider, so as to understand all the consequences of. |
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 known · have learned · have invited |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | those who are · question, which is · think, which is |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | was not structured · been punished · was made |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 44 contractions and reduced forms, such as didn't, don't, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: verstehen /və(ɹ)ˈʃteɪ.ən/, consciousness /ˈkɑnʃəsnəs/, recommendation /ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/, invitation /ɪnvɪˈteɪʃən/, emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: bureaucratic /ˌbjʊəɹəˈkɹætɪk/, recommendation /ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/, invitation /ɪnvɪˈteɪʃən/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like muss, hause, immer.
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.