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Rapunzel in German - TRAILER - The Fable Cottage

German shadowing practice · 14 sentences · 0:48 long · 70 words

Rapunzel in German - TRAILER - The Fable Cottage

About this practice session

This page turns the YouTube video “Rapunzel in German - TRAILER - The Fable Cottage” into a German shadowing exercise. The recording is split into 14 short sentences that you can play one at a time, repeat after the speaker and record your own version for automatic pronunciation scoring.

The speaker talks at about 107 words per minute, a slow pace, with an average of 5.0 words per sentence. That makes it a good choice for beginners and for working on individual sounds.

How to practise with this video

  1. Play the first sentence and listen while reading the transcript. Notice the stress, the pauses and where the intonation rises or falls.
  2. Replay it and speak along with the speaker, copying the rhythm rather than reading word by word.
  3. Record yourself straight after the original. ShadowEcho scores each word for accuracy, fluency and completeness.
  4. Compare your recording with the original, retry the words marked in red, then move on to the next sentence.
  5. Practise 10–15 minutes a day. Coming back to the same video after a few days is an easy way to measure progress.

Transcript (German)

  1. Es war einmal ein Mädchen namens Rapunzel.
  2. Rapunzel lebte in einem großen Turm im Wald.
  3. „Rapunzel! Lass dein Haar herunter!”
  4. Die Hexe war Rapunzels einzige Freundin.
  5. „Rapunzel! Rapunzel! Lass dein Haar herunter!”
  6. Es war ein fremder Mann!
  7. „Wer bist du? Was willst du?
  8. „Ich bin gekommen, um dich zu retten…?”
  9. „Willst du fortlaufen?”
  10. „Da war ein Mann…”
  11. „EIN MANN?”
  12. „Was für ein Unglück!”
  13. „Vertrau mir!
  14. — Ich bin ein Held!”

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