Shadowing Practice: What do Germans Do on a Sunday? | Easy German 574 - Learn English Speaking with Video

Janusz, what do you do in Germany?

I really don't know and that's why I ask people to ask on the street.

Let's do it now!

Let's go!

What do you do in Germany on Sunday?

The cliche is that you do your car wash,

your garden cleanly, and brings this pietistic art of self -reinigung to outside.

And you eat with your family together on Sunday.

What does you do in Germany on Sunday?

To be quiet on the sofa sitting on the sofa or eating. To eat with friends,

to meet the park in berlin schläft man bis mittag also

nicht ich aber ich weiß von meinen kindern und dann geht

man zum frühstücken und nachmittags geht man irgendwo fährt man an

see oder man geht spazieren also man entspannt oder mit den

kindern auf dem spielplatz einen sonntag traditioneller weise ich weiß nicht ob ich

so traditionell immer irgendwas gemacht habe mit meiner familie Most of the time it was just to eat together, get some bread and get some bread.

Yes, definitely.

But traditionally, there was never anything to do.

Let's do something nice to eat.

And let's do something nice to eat.

That's a nice question.

A German Sunday?

So, morning a German Sunday is very calm.

The people sleep.

It's a very nice time to go to the morning.

In Germany you eat a breakfast egg.

That's a very German egg.

It's a soft egg egg.

You put it against the egg with a knife, and then you put it up there.

That's a very German egg.

Kaffee und Kuchen essen definitiv.

Sonntags Kaffee und Kuchen essen, Tatort schauen am Abend und dazwischen irgendwie noch wandern und spazieren gehen.

Oder weiß ich nicht, was fällt dir noch ein?

Das hört sich ziemlich gut an.

Das Problem ist, ich glaube wir sind nicht klassisch deutsch aufgewachsen.

Unsere Eltern waren, also mein Vater war aus Chile, meine Mutter Griechin, das heißt ich bin nicht klassisch aufgewachsen.

Ich bin 11 Uhr, 12 Uhr Frühstück, das ist nicht typisch deutsch.

Wie wird in Deutschland der Sonntag gefeiert?

Gute Frage.

Bei mir und meiner Familie eigentlich überhaupt nicht.

Meine Eltern haben immer viel mit Musik und Theatern so gearbeitet.

Das heißt, Sonntag war genau so ein Arbeitstag wie jeder andere auch.

Ehrlich gesagt, keine Ahnung.

Bei uns gab es das nicht.

Definitiv zu Hause.

Mit der Familie, wenn man noch welche hat.

I actually wash my clothes and just with my cat a little bit of the rest, but I often work on the weekends.

I'm not the classic German example, I often work on the weekends.

Flohmarkt were we often.

Flohmarkt.

Not here, not here.

Here in Berlin, very popular.

Flohmarkt.

You come from Austria, so I ask you, how will you take a traditional way a Sunday in Austria?

To sleep, a good breakfast, my partner and I always make a brunch.

Some weeks will visit the family, I come from a big family, That is always nice with my daughter and my daughter.

Or you can see friends and swim in the summer.

And BBQs at the end.

Also more outdoors.

Also go out, swim, rad.

Gerade in this weather?

Yes.

Berlin is right now.

And we are right now.

What do you usually do on Sunday?

I go with my daughter to Mauerpark and buy her playmobil.

What do you do next Sunday?

Oh, I can't say that, because I haven't done anything yet.

I don't know.

It could be that I go to a friend of mine and drink coffee in the garden.

Sunday is just an excitement.

I probably will visit some of the stores.

Neukölln, Mauerpark for example.

Friedrichshain is also a very nice place.

Yeah, that's cool.

Box eigener Platz.

Nice.

What else?

Maybe a beer in a park to drink or a coffee.

I'm going to fly to Griechenland, where my family comes from.

I'm already there when you come.

It's not going to look like the Samstag and the Freitag.

I'm in the study phase of the university and on Monday is the test, that means my Sunday is...

...Baukern.

Yeah.

Medizin, I study Medizin.

What do I do next Sunday?

I'll probably sleep a long time.

And if I don't sleep a long time, then I'll sleep a little late.

That's the other option.

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One of my children has a tennis tournament and then we're going to go to the tennis tournament.

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That's also something different.

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What's in Germany often is.

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The kids will go to a football tournament, a tennis tournament or something.

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That's fantastic.

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Fantastic.

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And how do you plan your next Sunday, your next Sunday?

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What do you plan?

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We're going to travel.

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That means we're going to travel tomorrow with the Ferry in Sweden.

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That means I'm going to spend in Sweden.

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Oh, how beautiful.

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What is in Sweden Sunday especially nice?

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That's what I'll find out.

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That's not so difficult and not so expensive, like you sometimes think.

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If you work with someone personally, you have a much higher motivation to come and continue to do it.

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And you can also very individual learn.

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What can't you do from the law at the end?

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I don't know.

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I don't know.

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Yes, that's right.

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There are many examples, but you can't work on itself.

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Yes, that's right.

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But sometimes we do the interviews sometimes.

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That means we do them illegally, right?

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Also, I've never done that.

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Ah, okay.

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What is legally forbidden on Sunday?

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Rasenmähn.

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Also, yes.

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Lärm machen.

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Lärm machen.

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Autowaschen.

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Also forbidden?

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Deutschland is very furchtbar with forbidden.

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What have we still?

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Can I tell you?

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Allgemein Arbeit.

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Arbeiten ist verboten.

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Es gibt natürlich viele Ausnahmen.

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You can't do it, if you look into the hospital.

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No, no. There are many, what must, what must.

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There are many, but actually, that is forbidden.

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You need an exception.

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Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, look at it.

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What is forbidden on Sunday?

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komischerweise habe ich das gefühl dass die leute viel lärm empfindlicher sind und dass

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so lärm viel mehr verboten ist obwohl das ja eigentlich die familienzeit ist wo man eigentlich mal laut sein könnte

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so und was hältst du von den geschlossenen geschäften am sonntag

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ich finde das ist eigentlich gut dann können die leute auch

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entspannen die da arbeiten ich habe da auch mal gearbeitet und

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ist eigentlich sehr sehr cool wenn man dann auf jeden fall einen tag free hat in der Woche.

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Und irgendwo findet man immer einen Späti, oder?

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Ja, das ist in Berlin halt das Tolle, dass es immer was ist.

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Ich persönlich bin aber generell immer der Meinung, eigentlich ist jeder Mensch für sich selber verantwortlich und sollte auch die Möglichkeit bekommen, es zu entscheiden.

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Es gibt ja vielleicht auch Menschen, die würden sogar ganz gerne am Sonntag arbeiten.

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Man sollte halt nicht müssen.

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Aber ich habe prinzipiell kein Problem damit, wenn sich das Gesetz verändern würde und wenn man beschließt,

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Well, the companies and the employees themselves do also have to decide.

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Yes.

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But maybe it's a bit short -term thought.

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So maybe you can help more people.

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I think that's good.

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I would like to wish that this will be so and doesn't change.

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Because I think it's nice to see the city when the people have a pause and they don't have to work permanently.

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Totally, I think that it's not so bad.

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It's a christian tradition, I think.

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Probably, it's coming.

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The 7th day is the Ruhetag.

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God built 6 days the earth and everything else.

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And on the 7th day, he had to be quiet.

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God had to be quiet.

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I'm used to it.

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I think there's a little bit of quiet.

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Yes, and I think there's always a celebration, I think.

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Yes, and I've lived somewhere else, where you can go on Saturday.

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And for me, it makes a difference.

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I like it, if you don't do it for a day together.

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And the last question, how do you get clear

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that most of the businesses in deutschland sonntags zu sind sehr

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gute planung und das große glück dass mein wochenende montag anfängt

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das ist eine gute idee ich habe mich vor über 20

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jahren dafür entschieden zu arbeiten damit andere leute feiern gehen können

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also ich lebe sehr gut du bist ein engel dankeschön janus

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zum ende bleibt mir nur noch eine frage was machst du

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denn diesen sonntag ja zufälligerweise hast du We bought us cards for a concert.

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And we will go there.

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It sounds like you would like to be a bit of a bit.

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I really like that.

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It's a very old band.

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But we heard this music, as we met.

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That's right.

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That album is already 25 years old.

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And we also, yes. But that's very nice.

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We're going to a concert.

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I like that.

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I like that.

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For those who have already heard music before 25 years, the band is called Air.

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And they play my favorite album.

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Yeah, Janusz, what remains to say?

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Tschüss.

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The link is here below.

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See you soon and see you next time.

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Ciao.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This video has 213 sentences and 1695 words to shadow. The speech runs for 12:16. The speaker talks at a steady 138 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. Only 64% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
forbid verb	/fɚˈbɪd/	To disallow; to proscribe.
berlin noun	/bəˈlɪn/	A four-wheeled carriage with a separate sheltered seat behind the body.
tennis noun	/ˈtɛnɪs/	A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets.
tutor noun	/ˈtjuːtəː/	One who teaches another (usually called a student, learner, or tutee) in a one-on-one or small-group interaction.
hungry adjective	/ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/	Affected by hunger; having the physical need for food.
swim verb	/swɪm/	To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means.
sofa noun	/ˈsoʊ̯fə/	An upholstered seat with a raised back and one or two raised ends, long enough to comfortably accommodate two or more people.
bind verb	/ˈbaɪ̯nd/	To tie; to confine by any ligature.
knife noun	/ˈnaɪ̯f/	A utensil or a tool designed for cutting, consisting of a flat piece of hard material, usually steel or other metal (the blade), usually sharpened on one edge…
exception noun	/əkˈsɛpʃən/	The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule.
feedback noun	/ˈfiːdˌbæk/	Critical assessment of a process or activity or of their results.
celebration noun	/ˌsɛl.ɪˈbɹeɪ.ʃən/	The formal performance of a solemn rite, such as Christian sacrament.
outdoor adjective	/aʊtˈdɔː/	Situated in, designed to be used in, or carried on in the open air.
motivation noun	/ˈmoʊ.tə.veɪ.ʃən/	Willingness of action especially in behavior.
legally adverb	/ˈliːɡəli/	As permitted by law; not contrary to law.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
find out verb	To discover, as by asking or investigating.
go out verb	To leave, especially a building.

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	haven't done · I've never done · I've lived
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	is forbidden · is called
Future with “will” will + verb — a decision, promise or prediction	will you · will visit · I'll probably sleep
Future with “going to” be going to + verb — a plan or something you can see coming	I'm going to fly · It's not going to look · we're going to go

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 29 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, I'm, can't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: exception /əkˈsɛpʃən/, celebration /ˌsɛl.ɪˈbɹeɪ.ʃən/, motivation /ˈmoʊ.tə.veɪ.ʃən/, traditionally /tɹəˈdɪʃ.ə.nə.li/, cliché /kliˈʃeɪ/
Long words — get the stress right: celebration /ˌsɛl.ɪˈbɹeɪ.ʃən/, motivation /ˈmoʊ.tə.veɪ.ʃən/, permanently /ˈpɜː.mə.nənt.li/, traditionally /tɹəˈdɪʃ.ə.nə.li/, illegally /ɪˈliːɡəli/

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 forbid, berlin, tennis.

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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