Pratica di Shadowing: 10 Questions for Reese Witherspoon - Impara a parlare inglese con i video
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Reese Witherspoon is an Academy Award winning actress, a mother of two and a woman who has been romanced on screen by both Wilson brothers.
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Reese, welcome.
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Thank you.
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So you're the honorary chair of the Avon Foundation and one of its big issues is breast cancer.
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Is there something that we're not doing in the fight against breast cancer?
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There's so much that's being done.
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There's so much research and progress that has been made but as with anything that is you know a a global epidemic,
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I think it needs to be dealt with continually.
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And when you talk about every three minutes a woman is diagnosed worldwide,
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I think it's still a situation where we have to create research and funding is always necessary and education.
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Being an advocate and being in movies and also probably donating to causes, which do What do you find to be,
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for the celebrity, the most effective way of effecting change?
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Fundraising is of utmost importance, especially when you're talking about new technologies and new sciences and education.
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But, you know, it's wonderful to see my colleagues making movies about breast cancer, you know, and really showing the psychological parts of it
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that are so important for women to understand and families to sort of talk about.
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She said once that the, this is a quote, the battles we face in this business aren't financial, but they are moral.
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And I wonder how much those two things are intertwined, that the reason people suspend their morals is because there's so much money on the line.
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Well, I think certainly when you talk about any amount of money, I mean, there's morality involved.
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And I think every day you make choices that you have to live with for the rest of your life.
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And I think, you know, it's just like any other life situation.
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You just have to make choices that, you know, hopefully reflect your true character.
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And I hope to be doing that in the movie industry.
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Although it's always dangerous territory when you're talking about morals and character.
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It's really the sign of a fall to come, usually.
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You've made some incredibly successful movies and you've made some that were disappointing in the box office.
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Do you feel differently about that afterwards?
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Yeah, of course.
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When movies are disappointing, it's more than just the financial sort of disappointment.
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It's a real emotional experience because you've carried that with you
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and you put a lot of effort and energy into the movie and all of the people that you've worked with.
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But it makes It makes all the successes that much better.
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But yeah, I've had disastrous Saturday mornings where you're like, oh really?
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That movie is not going to do well, is it?
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So, you survive.
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Can you ever tell?
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Nope.
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I'm really bad at that.
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I can't ever prognosticate what people are going to like or not like.
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So I just try to go with what I would want to see and try to bear in mind, you know, people have very difficult lives.
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They want to go and enjoy themselves at the movies.
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it's easier to just go to a movie and not think for a while.
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Did you ever think Legally Blonde would take off as hugely as it did?
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No, I had no idea it was going to be so successful.
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I really loved that character.
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I loved Elle Wood so much.
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She was just really interesting, one of those sort of great innocents in the world, you know.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione di livello B2 si basa sul video “10 Questions for Reese Witherspoon”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: movie, breast, moral, cancer, character. Questo video contiene 46 frasi e 595 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 3:18. Chi parla va veloce, circa 180 parole al minuto: aspettati suoni legati e ridotti. Il 87% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è facile da seguire. 7 delle sue 46 frasi sono domande: un buon esercizio per l’intonazione interrogativa e le risposte brevi.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
Le 13 parole più avanzate del video, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| disappoint verbo | /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnt/ | deludere, dispiacere |
| diagnose verbo | /ˈdaɪ.əɡˌnoʊs/ | diagnosticare |
| intertwine verbo | /ˌɪntəɹˈtwaɪn/ | intrecciare |
| hugely avverbio | /ˈhjuːd͡ʒli/ | vastamente |
| honorary aggettivo | /ˈɑn.əˌɹɛɹ.i/ | onorativo |
| suspend verbo | /səsˈpɛnd/ | sospendere |
| epidemic sostantivo | /ˌɛpɪˈdɛmɪk/ | epidemia |
| fundraising sostantivo | /ˈfʌndˌɹeɪzɪŋ/ | raccolta di fondi |
| utter verbo | /ˈʌtəɹ/ | articolare, biascicare |
| morality sostantivo | /məˈɹælɪti/ | moralità |
| colleague sostantivo | /ˈkɒliːɡ/ | collega |
| disappointment sostantivo | /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪntmənt/ | delusione, disappunto |
| donate verbo | /ˈdoʊˌneɪt/ | donare |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Significato |
|---|---|
| take off verbo | togliere |
Frasi da ripetere
Frasi brevi e complete del video che puoi riutilizzare nella conversazione di tutti i giorni:
- Do you feel differently about that afterwards?
- Can you ever tell?
- I'm really bad at that.
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | has been romanced · being done · has been made |
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | has been romanced · has been made · You've made |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 13 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come you're, you've, aren't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: prognosticate /pɹɒɡˈnɒstɪkeɪt/, honorary /ˈɑn.əˌɹɛɹ.i/, epidemic /ˌɛpɪˈdɛmɪk/, morality /məˈɹælɪti/, continually /kənˈtɪnjuəli/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: disappoint /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnt/, diagnose /ˈdaɪ.əɡˌnoʊs/, prognosticate /pɹɒɡˈnɒstɪkeɪt/, suspend /səsˈpɛnd/, disastrous /dɪˈzæs.tɹəs/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: disastrous /dɪˈzæs.tɹəs/, morality /məˈɹælɪti/
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 disappoint, diagnose, intertwine.
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.