Pratica di Shadowing: 01.a Earthquakes Conversation - Effortless Real English - Impara a parlare inglese con i video
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hey check this out you know what eric asked me when i got into work this morning
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i have no idea what do you ask you he asked me if i felt the earthquake last night
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earthquake you've got to be kidding i didn't feel an earthquake
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i know that's what i said he told me it actually
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woke him up last night you know what yeah it was like it went it happened at like, uh, four 42 in the morning.
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So we must've been sleeping, but I mean, it's possible that, you know, even if we had been awake, we might not have felt it because, you know, maybe it, uh,
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wasn't felt, you know, this far North, but, uh, I mean, I thought he was pulling my leg when he first talked about it.
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Well, I guess that's not so far fetched considering we live on a major fault line here.
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Yeah.
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But actually I think this earthquake was, uh, on a different fault line um
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because you know eric lives uh just uh south of san jose yeah
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and uh the earthquake he said was due east of san jose
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so he was obviously a lot closer to the epicenter than we were
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so i don't i'm not even sure it was felt here yeah
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that makes sense well you know i've experienced quite a few earthquakes in the past several years
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but i've been living here now a little over two years I think I've only experienced one here.
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It was really strange, too.
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I should say each earthquake has been a completely different experience.
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But the one I felt here, I was standing outside a restaurant talking to AJ and another friend, and all of a sudden,
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it just felt like this shift.
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It's really hard to explain, but it made me think of like a cartoon, like how in the cartoon, like buildings might just shift to the right and then shift right back.
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Yeah, without falling.
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Yeah, without falling.
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And I had no idea what was going on for a few minutes afterwards.
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And then I realized, oh, that must have been an earthquake.
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Yeah, you know what I usually notice? the times
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that i've been at home here and uh there's been an earthquake it's almost as
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if there's this really big train or like a gigantic mac truck going by
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and uh suddenly i start to hear the heater shaking
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and um it's like the noise is like uh is loud for like a second and then it's gone. So it's really weird.
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You know, it's almost like the first couple of times I felt it, I wasn't even aware it was an earthquake while it was happening.
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Well, that's so funny you say that because one that I experienced in Bangkok, it actually was after the tsunami.
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And so later I found out that it was, it was aftershock from the tsunami.
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But anyway, I was in a building up on the ninth floor and suddenly there was all this rattling.
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And I'm thinking to myself, it just, it was so irrational.
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I'm thinking to myself, God, there's like a train going by and I can't believe that this building is shaking so much from the train.
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And of course a train wouldn't have made a building
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or at least me up on the ninth floor feel something to that effect.
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And I think it happened about two times.
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And that one wasn't until several days later when I was talking to people and they were like, oh, did you feel the earthquake?
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Then it dawned on me, oh, that was an earthquake.
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Yeah, I know.
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It's crazy how when you're not used to feeling them, you could think it's something else.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, totally.
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I've been living here for a while now and I've definitely felt my share of earthquakes.
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I mean, when you live here, it's a given that you're going to experience earthquakes.
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You just hope that you're not going to be here for the big one.
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Right.
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When I first moved here, it was five years after the Loma Prieta earthquake, which was a very big earthquake here.
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And there are a lot of people who lived here who
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I met who had actually been living in the area when the earthquake hit.
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So it was interesting to get their perspective.
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And it also like made me remember where I was when I heard about the Loma Prieta earthquake.
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I was watching the World Series on TV and, you know, it was taking place in San Francisco go.
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So as I'm watching it, suddenly the announcer starts saying, wow, I think we're feeling an earthquake here.
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And the cameras started shaking.
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And all of a sudden, the TV coverage cut out.
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So, you know, I wanted to get a rundown of what happened.
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So I turned to the news station and within a few minutes, they were discussing this gigantic earthquake.
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That had hit San Francisco, and they started showing pictures,
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maybe 30 minutes later, of these people who were trying to weed through the rubble of these buildings that had been, like, coming down.
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So, I mean, it was pretty scary, I'll tell you what.
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Yeah, well, you know, the three months I was living in Japan, I experienced two.
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Both of those were very different, very different from the one I'd experienced here and also very different from the one in Bangkok.
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But one of them, I was actually up in my apartment, which was on the fifth floor of a building, and I was woken up at about five o 'clock in the morning to the building swaying.
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And because earthquakes are like a dime a dozen in Japan, they've built a lot of their buildings to absorb the shock.
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So that's why it was swaying.
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It was really, it's a very surreal feel.
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Hi, this is Kristen Dodds, and this is Joe Weiss,
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and we just wanted to let you know that this material is copyrighted in the year 2008 by Learn Real English,
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LLC, www .learnrealenglish .com.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione di livello B1 si basa sul video “01.a Earthquakes Conversation - Effortless Real English”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: earthquake, felt, experienced, train, san. Questo video contiene 72 frasi e 1024 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 6:03. Chi parla ha un ritmo naturale di circa 169 parole al minuto, vicino a una conversazione quotidiana. Il 82% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
Le 15 parole più avanzate del video, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| earthquake sostantivo | /ˈɝθkweɪk/ | terremoto, sisma |
| shake verbo | /ˈʃeɪk/ | scuotere, agitare |
| tsunami sostantivo | /(t)suːˈnɑːmi/ | tsunami, maremoto |
| gigantic aggettivo | /d͡ʒaɪˈɡæntɪk/ | gigantesco, colossale |
| sway verbo | /ˈsweɪ̯/ | agitarsi, scuotersi |
| ninth aggettivo | /naɪnθ/ | nono |
| cartoon sostantivo | /kɑɹˈtun/ | vignetta |
| aftershock sostantivo | /ˈæftɜɹʃɔk/ | scossa di assestamento |
| epicentre sostantivo | /ˈɛpɪˌsɛntɚ/ | epicentro |
| rattle sostantivo | /ˈɹæ.təl/ | sonaglio |
| rubble sostantivo | /ˈɹʌb.əl/ | calcinacci, macerie |
| rundown sostantivo | /ˈɹʌndaʊn/ | punti salienti |
| heater sostantivo | /ˈhitɚ/ | riscaldatore, radiatore |
| irrational aggettivo | /ɪˈɹæʃ.(ə.)nəl/ | irrazionale |
| announcer sostantivo | /əˈnaʊnsɚ/ | annunciatore, annunciatrice |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Significato |
|---|---|
| cut out verbo | smetterla, finirla |
| find out verbo | scoprire |
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — un’azione iniziata prima e ancora in corso | i've been living |
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | i've experienced · I've only experienced · has been |
| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | wasn't felt · was felt · was woken |
| Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosa | earthquake, which was · people who lived · people who were |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 26 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come I've, I'm, wasn't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “th”: earthquake /ˈɝθkweɪk/, ninth /naɪnθ/
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: shake /ˈʃeɪk/, aftershock /ˈæftɜɹʃɔk/, irrational /ɪˈɹæʃ.(ə.)nəl/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: epicentre /ˈɛpɪˌsɛntɚ/, irrational /ɪˈɹæʃ.(ə.)nəl/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: earthquake /ˈɝθkweɪk/, shake /ˈʃeɪk/, gigantic /d͡ʒaɪˈɡæntɪk/, ninth /naɪnθ/, aftershock /ˈæftɜɹʃɔk/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: gigantic /d͡ʒaɪˈɡæntɪk/, aftershock /ˈæftɜɹʃɔk/, rattle /ˈɹæ.təl/, irrational /ɪˈɹæʃ.(ə.)nəl/, absorb /æbˈsɔɹb/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Inizia a velocità 0,75×, fai shadowing frase per frase e torna alla velocità normale quando diventa facile.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come earthquake, shake, tsunami.
Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?
Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.