Shadowing Practice: The Most Stupid Thing You Have Done | Easy German 565 - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Janusz, what is actually the worst thing you've ever done?

I've been thinking for a long time and it's actually a story that is so sad, so sad, that I'm not gonna tell you now,

but maybe if you're at the end of the show, then I'll tell you to tell you what a cliffhanger.

We ask people now what the worst thing they've ever done?

Spannende Frage.

Drei Wörter, dümmste, blamierend und peinlich.

Da in dieser Sprache arbeiten wir heute.

Los geht's.

Was ist das dümmste, was du je in deinem Leben gemacht hast?

Also es ist natürlich immer die Frage, worauf gezogen.

Was ich sehr bereue, ist auf jeden Fall, dass ich mir mal meine Augenbrauen abrasiert habe,

When I was little, I was very sad.

And sometimes sometimes, there are little mistakes that happen to me, which I could avoid.

That's how I can't answer.

There are many things.

Probably, I was a kid, I was a kid, my parents were going to hold up to me.

What was the worst you ever made in your life?

What was the worst I ever made in my life?

I was going to drive.

and I was going to drive.

My car was driving, but I had only 5 minutes of time.

I thought I would go to the store and eat something.

There was a car, and I was late.

That was pretty dumb.

What was dumb was, that I had married my husband now.

We were very long friends.

10 years.

It took a long time to understand, That's more for life.

That was very dumb from me.

That's why I needed to be a long time.

That's so sweet.

I got together with friends a piece of paper.

We wanted to build it as a community.

We spoke but before I didn't speak well.

That was in my hands.

We were then a few years ago not in communication.

Oh, how bad.

What was the worst you ever made in your life?

Oh, I think I was about 14 years old.

I tried to make my own tattoos with a needle, which was actually for clothes to sew.

I don't know what kind of Tint was that was.

It was just a Tint.

Then we tried to get a tattoo on it.

It looked really well and was gone away.

But I think that's just a bit of a thing.

That's really a bit of a thing.

That's the absolute dumbest...

I just wanted to say that I didn't have to do it before, as I did it, from home to home.

But that can't be dumb because it didn't really have a free decision.

I think I was...

I was...

I was like, I was like, I wanted to go to the club and was just a bit drunk.

I was not here because I couldn't even go even go down.

I wanted to go down and go down.

I went over the Zaun and he had to go to the back.

I got my whole head on and went to the back.

Then he saw me on the table and said no.

Then I went down and went down and came back to the police.

They have my personal account and then I lost my phone.

I was not so bad at all.

But it was a different experience.

What was the bad at all you ever made in your life?

Oh, God.

I was actually for a few months in the country.

I wanted to build a new life.

But I really regret it.

I came back and lived here in Germany.

What were the reasons for this?

What did you find not so cool?

And where did you go?

I flew to New Zealand and I felt very upset.

I couldn't identify with the culture.

I didn't even know a person.

I felt like I was in Germany and Berlin.

my friends, my family.

What was the worst you ever made in your life?

I think my priorities were to set up when I was younger.

To think that everything else is important than the school.

And also the main goal for the future.

I can always preach to all young people or my little cousins.

No matter how much it is, it's going to go and drink with his friend a beer.

First of all, it's just the same thing.

Okay, I have something.

It's not really dumb, I believe.

But my friends believe me all of them not, that it happened.

I've been following a horse on a horse.

I was on a horse and he was on a horse.

I've been there going on and saying, he's going to put my horse back.

That's not really dumb.

That's about the coolest ever.

Yes, that's about the coolest thing.

But that's why people think that it's dumb.

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When did you get yourself?

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When did you blame yourself?

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I gave myself the rhythm and played well.

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I passed my Einsatz.

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Everyone was waiting for me.

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I couldn't play.

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We had to start with the rest.

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There were 500 people there.

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I broke out of the Schweiß.

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Have you ever blamed yourself something?

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Yes.

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We had a Fähre with my whole school.

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I was flying around with a face, when everyone wanted to go to the Fähre.

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I was very close.

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It's very painful.

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Yes, actually.

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I had my own password as a child in the library.

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I had to ask myself that.

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It was very painful to say my password was told by the woman.

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But I don't want to tell what that password was.

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I asked my wife if she was pregnant.

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But I was younger, I was 14 or 13.

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I asked her if she was a little bit.

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She was a little bit...

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She was not a little bit.

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She said she was very clear.

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That was unangenehm.

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When I was in the 5th grade, I was on a school trip.

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We were going to take a trip with boat boat.

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The kids were on a sea.

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I tried to walk from one boat to another boat.

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The thing ended exactly like it was you think.

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And your friends had to laugh at your children?

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Yes, a girl took me out.

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When did you blame yourself in your life?

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We were young with a Moped to the disco, two girls, and then we were kicked out.

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That was so painless from the people there.

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But hopefully not really hurt.

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Yes, it's not hurt, but it's just a pain.

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That's a bit of a shame.

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I know what I'm doing.

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I worked as a student with a Fasching.

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I held a Faschings, a Bütten-Rede.

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I read it and there was no one laughing at the room.

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So it was very painless.

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You were not drunk enough, right?

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I don't know why I'm from the Rheinland, but from the preuces, from Berlin.

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I don't know if I didn't get the right tone.

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It was very painful.

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When did you blame yourself?

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Oh, I was in a big glasshouse with a big glass glass.

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I went to the open side and went to the closed side.

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I understood that the glass door on the one side is closed.

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I was completely gone and made my nose kaputt.

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Wow.

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That was very sad.

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I was like, how bad I was going to go against this.

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I think I'm...

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That's a bit lame.

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I think it was a lot of people.

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I was also on the stage, because I sung.

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I packed myself up and I fell on the floor.

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It was very unpleasant, because I was very comfortable with a lot of people.

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But nobody knew that.

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Well, it was a little bit of a pain.

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Have you done something that was very pained?

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Oh my God, it was very pained.

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I was thinking about the Alexanderplatz on the one building.

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so that a greater number of people my Genital saw to see.

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But that was to these people's painfully than me.

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And what is it to you today?

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Also young people have me my grandma asked, who should you buy the car?

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And then we said, they should go there.

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And then we are then laughing away.

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And that's to me today's pain.

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How can you tell an old woman?

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I feel like I'm feeling a bit of pain when someone's a bit of a critic and wears my mistakes.

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What I can always take as feedback to improve.

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But I always get the feeling that I've made something wrong.

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And then it's me painless.

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That's totally normal.

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Have you done something that was you then later totally was really pained?

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Hmm.

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Well, I have to think about it.

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What was I'm doing?

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I think, when I was younger, my hair was just because I had my hair cut off.

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And that looked really not good.

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I wanted a little bit of a pony to have.

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The pony looked like this.

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That was a little bit of a pain.

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But I mean, if I think about it now, I think about the little things that are not really pained.

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I had a long time with very short hair, which I also think very pained.

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But yeah, I think that's it.

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Janusz, we have waited for a long time.

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Now we want to know what you've done.

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What was the most saddest thing you've ever done?

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Actually the most saddest thing.

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Okay, what was the most saddest thing you've ever done?

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I got a series of lectures to document with a video.

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lectures in the university?

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Yes, lectures in the university.

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That was a meeting of Statists.

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Statistica or Statistica?

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Statistica.

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And they spoke German, but still I didn't understand anything.

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It was so closed.

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They used so much vocabulary, it was totally fremd.

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I was surprised, but the camera was on the way, the micros were good.

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And suddenly someone's got me.

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I was asleep and I was still sleeping.

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And the whole room...

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...he heard.

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...he laughed very strongly.

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Okay.

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Janusz should document the statistics meeting and instead of snarling.

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That's a nice story.

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What do you say?

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What are you feeling?

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What are you feeling?

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Tell us your stories in the comments.

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And we hope to see you next time again.

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Abonniere our channel and learn German.

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Bye Janusz!

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This video has 235 sentences and 1925 words to shadow. The speech runs for 14:20. The speaker talks at a steady 134 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. Only 81% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 less common words from the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

painful /ˈpeɪn.fl̩/ (adjective) — Causing pain or distress, either physical or mental.
lecture /ˈlɛk.t͡ʃə/ (noun) — A spoken lesson or exposition, usually delivered to a group.
password /ˈpæs.wɜɹd/ (noun) — A word relayed to a person to gain admittance to a place or to gain access to information.
tattoo /tæˈtuː/ (noun) — An image made on a body part, usually the skin with ink and a needle.
pony /ˈpoʊni/ (noun) — A small horse; specifically, any of several small breeds of horse under 14.2 hands at the withers.
tone /ˈtəʊn/ (noun) — A specific pitch.
strongly /ˈstɹɔŋli/ (adverb) — In a strong or powerful manner.
cousin /ˈkʌz(ə)n/ (noun) — Chiefly with a qualifying word: Any relation (especially a distant one) who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of a person's extended family; a…
priority /pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/ (noun) — An item's relative importance.
regret /ɹɪˈɡɹɛt/ (verb) — To feel sorry about (a thing that has or has not happened), afterthink: to wish that a thing had not happened, that something else had happened instead.
asleep /əˈsliːp/ (adjective) — In a state of sleep; also, broadly, resting.
discount /ˈdɪskaʊnt/ (noun) — A reduction in price.
feedback /ˈfiːdˌbæk/ (noun) — Critical assessment of a process or activity or of their results.
grandma /ˈɡɹænmɑː/ (noun) — Grandmother.
micro /ˈmaɪ.kɹoʊ/ (adjective) — Very small in scale or scope.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

go down (verb) — To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one.
think about /ˈθɪŋk əˌbaʊt/ (verb) — To ponder.
play in (verb) — Of a batsman, to settle and become comfortable with the conditions at the beginning of his innings.
wait for (verb) — To wait until the specified event occurs.
come back (verb) — To return to a place.
cut off /ˌkʌt ˈɔf/ [ˌkɐɾ ˈɔf] (verb) — To remove by cutting.
fall on (verb) — To experience; to suffer; to fall upon.
go against (verb) — To violate; to breach; to break.

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 34 contractions and reduced forms, such as didn't, I'm, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: rhythm /ˈɹɪð.əm/, cloth /klɒθ/
Long words — get the stress right: priority /pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/

How to practise with this video

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

Grammar in this video

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

Structure	In the video
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on	I've been thinking · I've been following
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	you've ever done · they've ever done · I've been
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	was told · were kicked · were not drunk
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	needle, which was · one who had

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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