Shadowing Practice: What Germans Think About Turks (Street Interviews) - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Germany and the Turkey have a long history of cooperation.

So we are going to see with the Easy German Team and with Damla from the Easy Turkish Team Heike Semmel,

how it works in everyday life.

We will interview people from Germany and people with Turkish background in the future and see how it works in everyday life.

Are Germans and Turks together together?

What do they learn from each other?

I'm excited about this episode.

I'm too!

Let's go!

What comes to mind when you think about Turkish culture?

The beautiful oriental markets.

I think that's good.

Do you have one?

Yes, in Istanbul.

What comes to mind when you hear the term Turkish culture?

Turkish culture.

You have to be biased because you have already spoken of Turkish tea.

So now there is a lot of tea in my mind.

And with this connection, the little glass glass and this stuff.

Vielseitigkeit.

Why?

Explain that.

Well, the Turkish culture is the opposite to the modern -ländical culture, which we have, for us exotic,

fremd and in my opinion is very -septive.

What do you think first about the Turkish culture?

I think I'm a dance, a Turkish dance.

I find that I'm nice.

Have you any experience with it?

No, I don't have a lot of Turkish people in my friend's house, but somehow I don't know.

Gastfreundschaft.

Leckeres Essen.

Have you a few examples?

Kebab.

My neighbor, when I have time to drink coffee, she thanks for being a coffee.

It's a bit special when they celebrate a holiday.

There is a lot of food, sweet food, rice.

Or when they grill it.

In Berlin would I think of the first thing I think of the dinner and kebab.

Absolutely, yes.

I'm a vegetarian, but I still eat them with halomi, for example.

There's also some of the seitan.

Otherwise I would think of the food.

That's a big issue.

I would say that I would think of the food.

I love this.

Lecker, really good.

Börek.

It's something else.

I thought I had a Börek.

Döner.

Döner makes it look better.

Gute music.

Do you hear Turkish music?

Selten, but I already have a connection with it.

What comes to you first in the mind, when you think about the Turkish culture?

My Sohn.

Why?

Because the children are the closest.

But you must have to tell me...

Also, the mother is a Turkish.

In so far is that a child is also Turkish.

Even if they are German or both are German.

This video is a cooperation with Easy Turkish.

This is Damla.

Hello.

She is the moderator of Easy Turkish.

She asks similar questions in Berlin, but to the Turkish people who live here.

She asks them also about the relationship.

What do you miss in Turkey?

If you want to watch this video on Turkish, look up here.

What comes to mind when you hear the word Turkish culture?

Many things actually.

Tell me.

My family, for example, lives in Turkey.

Wow.

But are you themselves

Turkish or are those

Germans who are in Turkey? from Turkey?

No, I'm not Turkish.

My mother is half German, half Turkish, my father is Turkish.

Fantastic.

My neighbor is also from Turkey. And her friends also.

And what are you?

I'm German -Türkish.

I grew up here and grew up in Turkey, but I'm a lot of in my family to see it.

Actually family, love, together together, together living together, over all generations, often.

A delicious food.

Yes, delicious food.

Moshees.

Very beautiful Moshees.

Were you already in a mosque?

In Germany not, in Istanbul.

I also, in Germany not, but in Istanbul?

It was like that, I came to the 12th Diense to come home and thought, if I had to close the door,

I would have to close the door.

I closed the door and there was to eat there.

I was really excited about it.

She had a key to me.

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if someone can do something up, so that they can do something.

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So you can take the shoes from me, what they need.

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That's super nice, friendly, empathic.

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There are other people also important.

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What is not so for the Germans, no need to help.

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Always help me.

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I think the first time I was in Turkey,

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I was on a course in Turkey and I had to meet many wonderful people.

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I think that's the best.

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What did you experience in Turkey?

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What did you like?

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I found the love and openness of people very nice.

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Man will be very open arms, the faces are all very much smiley.

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And people are a bit more friendly.

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Yeah, I mean, yeah, I mean,

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yeah, I mean, yeah, yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah for you.

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Yeah, that's just amazing.

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That's a great offer!

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I'm falling to the ground.

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What cultural differences are there between the German culture and the Turkish culture?

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I think there are big differences between the family constructs.

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From what I've heard, Turkish families are often closer together.

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There is a lot of value in families, together.

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It's a clear hierarchy that parents have a lot of people with their children.

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At least with the friends I have.

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I feel that at least in my family is that a bit different.

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But we are not so super -eng together.

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They are connected to each other.

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I would say, generally, allgemein speaking, are the Turkish people a bit chaotic.

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But on a sympathetic way.

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Also, on a sweet way.

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And the Germans can sometimes be very focused on the outside, I think that's the way I can get it.

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I think that's the way I can get it.

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But it's good to be it.

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I think it's good to have the two cultures mixed up.

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It's a bit of a bit of a locket.

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I'd say that the Turkish -Deutser community is very much on the gas -freundity.

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I think that's not the case for the Germans.

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If you're at home, it's a bit of a drink, a bit of tea.

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And you can't get out of it.

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You can stay as long as you want.

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German is a bit cooler, a bit introvertierter.

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100 %!

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I would say that holidays are bigger, more and louder. And...

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Yeah, there are different religions.

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Primarily you have to think about Islam in Turkey.

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I was invited to a holiday.

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There were a few people.

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The city was used to use the city of Herford.

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What I found was that there was no alcohol.

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There was no alcohol.

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There was no alcohol.

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There was no alcohol.

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There was no alcohol.

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There was no alcohol.

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There was no alcohol.

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There was no alcohol.

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There was no alcohol.

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There was no alcohol.

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There was no alcohol.

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There was no alcohol.

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There was no alcohol.

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There was no alcohol.

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Now, I think that's really cool cultural differences.

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I wanted to say the together.

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Yes.

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Both have something to do with.

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But I would say a Turkish person, with whom I'm talking about.

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We Germans have our heart in the head.

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And Turkish people are also intelligent, but they have their heart...

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...their heart in the head.

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That means it feels very happy.

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There are also

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Germans, but fewer.

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Could you say something about what you have done in the future?

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I would just refer to the historical general knowledge,

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how many people with migration history after the war have lived here, worked here and are like all the others.

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Of course, they helped to make a war again the war, I think, is the obvious.

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And it's probably a variety of ways.

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Like eating, music, with the festival.

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I think it brings a lot to what we can profit here.

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Probably from a way, from a sense of belonging to a neighborhood.

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For example, at our old居.

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That's also a sense of belonging to my neighborhood.

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So it's a need for, man helps, man is there.

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Of course, in the past, you can talk a lot about the workers, that they brought a lot of the German industry and the construction.

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But I'm very proud of you, because that's the most important thing.

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But many people forget that you helped to build Germany.

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Right, especially in West -Deutschland.

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But nowadays, people like all the others, they bring something to every society,

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at music, culture, in art, in other jobs.

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So today it's much more.

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And, as I said, my best friend comes from the country.

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I'm very thankful for her.

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I live in Neukölln.

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And the whole restaurants, the holidays on the street.

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The whole Läden.

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The kitsch -like Läden, which I really like.

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I think that's cool.

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And of course, culture, music, everything.

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I remember the situation where we were laid in the last year.

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My little children were very intensively used this building.

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There were also over -the -art workers.

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They were very friendly to the children, they had to go to the children and let them go to the children.

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or when the gas pump comes, the children are always greeted.

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It's a bit of a surprise that the foreign workers are more than the German.

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In Germany there are many

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Turks, in Berlin there are super many Turks.

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What have the Turkish culture for the German and German society? to bring to society?

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I think that all cultures bring to society.

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I don't come from Germany.

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I think that's so beautiful in Berlin, that it's such a multikulture society.

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I can't say what the Turks bring to society.

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This is probably one of the biggest groups of people, who have foreign heritage have a great experience.

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Many are now German.

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Of course, they are here, but we are now in the Pflenslauer Berg near Mauerpark.

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And there are many

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Turkish people who do barbecue and play music.

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I think it's very nice.

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Now we want to know what you say about the German -Türkian together in Germany and Berlin.

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We always like to see your comments.

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And we invite you to watch the video from Easy Turkish.

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Our partners are in Berlin today and have made interviews with Turkish Turkish.

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This video is here.

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Thank you for the time.

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And thank you also to Pauline, your co -moderator, who also made interviews for this video,

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but was not yet with this video because she was sick.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Good luck.

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Good luck, Pauline.

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Good luck.

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Good luck, Pauline.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “What Germans Think About Turks”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: Turkish, German, culture, alcohol, Turkey. This video has 248 sentences and 1864 words to shadow. The speech runs for 14:36. The speaker talks at a steady 128 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 84% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

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

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
worker noun	/ˈwɝ.kɚ/	One who works: a person who performs labor for a living; traditionally, especially, manual labor.
everyday adjective	/ˈɛvɹiˌdeɪ/	Appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions.
belong verb	/bɪˈlɒŋ/	To have its proper place.
delicious adjective	/dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/	Pleasing to the sense of taste; tasty.
cooperation noun	/koʊˌɑ.pəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/	The act of cooperating.
invite verb	/ɪnˈvaɪt/	To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something.
neighbour noun	/ˈneɪbɚ/	A person living on adjacent or nearby land; a person situated adjacently or nearby; anything (of the same type of thing as the subject) in an adjacent or…
primarily adverb	/ˈpɹaɪ.mə.ɹə.li/	Of a primary or central nature, first and foremost.
refer verb	/ɹɪˈfɜː/	To direct the attention of (someone toward something).
connect verb	/kəˈnɛkt/	To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object.
heritage noun	/ˈhɛɹ.ɪ.tɪd͡ʒ/	An inheritance; property that may be inherited.
fewer	/ˈfjuː.ɚ/	Less; a smaller amount of something non-integral commonly expressed as an integer
intelligent adjective	/ɪnˈtɛlɪd͡ʒənt/	Of high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright.
pump noun	/pʌmp/	A device for moving or compressing a liquid or gas.
shoe noun	/ˈʃu/	A protective covering for the foot, with a bottom part composed of thick leather or plastic sole and often a thicker heel, and a softer upper part made of…

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
get out of verb		To leave, exit or escape from; to become free of.
grow up verb		To mature and become an adult.
look up verb	/ˌlʊk ˈʌp/	To have better prospects.
mix up verb		To mix or blend thoroughly and completely.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

I'm excited about this episode.
Do you have one?
Have you any experience with it?
Have you a few examples?
Were you already in a mosque?

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 already spoken · I've heard · have done
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	be biased · are connected · was invited
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	people who live · people who do

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 23 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, you're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: thankful /ˈθæŋkfəl/, sympathetic /ˌsɪm.pəˈθɛt.ɪk/, empathic /ɛmˈpæθɪk/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: delicious /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/, cooperation /koʊˌɑ.pəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, shoe /ˈʃu/, migration /maɪˈɡɹeɪʃ(ə)n/
Long words — get the stress right: cooperation /koʊˌɑ.pəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, primarily /ˈpɹaɪ.mə.ɹə.li/, intelligent /ɪnˈtɛlɪd͡ʒənt/, sympathetic /ˌsɪm.pəˈθɛt.ɪk/, hierarchy /ˈhaɪ.ə.ɹɑː(ɹ).ki/

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 worker, everyday, belong.

What is the Shadowing Technique?

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