Pratica di Shadowing: 27 tháng 8, 2026 - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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So, Sarah, what can you tell me about your hometown?
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My hometown?
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Well, my hometown is called Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and it's a really great city.
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There are about 80,000 people.
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There are lots of things to do.
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There are three movie theaters.
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I love to watch movies.
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Me too.
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There's lots of shopping.
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You can find anything you want there.
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There are lots of malls and stores. Are there many restaurants?
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Yes.
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The thing I like is you can eat any type of food.
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There are Chinese restaurants and Korean restaurants, Italian restaurants.
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There is a big variety of restaurants and they're all good.
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That sounds great.
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What about parks?
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Are there many places to see nature in your town?
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Yes.
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We have a lot of rivers and lakes and hills.
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My hometown has four seasons.
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So in summer, it's great because there are lots of lakes to swim in, lots of forests to play in.
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In winter, there is a lot of snow.
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So you can go ice skating or ice fishing or even skiing.
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Wow, that sounds really fun.
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Yeah, it's a really nice city.
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It's also really safe.
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There are lots of nice people there.
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Good.
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Is there much to do at night?
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Hmm.
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Well, maybe, maybe not.
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There's not many things to do at night.
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There aren't any nightclubs.
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There aren't many bars.
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so actually maybe there isn't much nightlife.
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That's okay.
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It sounds like a nice place to have a family.
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Yeah, it is.
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It's a great place to have a family.
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There's lots of good schools and libraries.
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So John, where are you from?
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My hometown is very small.
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It's a little town in the countryside outside in Wisconsin.
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There are only 5,000 people there.
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Wow, there aren't very many people.
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No, it's very small.
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There aren't very many businesses.
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There isn't a shopping mall.
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There are a lot of grocery stores.
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And there are a lot of gas stations.
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But there isn't much to do there.
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Oh, really?
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Are there any movie theaters?
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Well, there is one movie theater, so that's a nice thing to do.
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In fact, there are many screens in the theater.
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There are eight different movies showing.
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How about at night?
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What's fun to do?
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How about at night?
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Is there very much nightlife?
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yeah there's not so much but there is a bowling alley
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it's fun to go bowling with friends there's a bowling alley
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and the movie theater there's one restaurant where you can go for
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tacos and burritos and there's one more restaurant for pizza and spaghetti Ah.
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But during the daytime, you can go to the park.
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There's a river that goes through the town.
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So, in the middle of town, there's a river, and there's a park that goes along both sides of the river.
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And at the park, there is a tennis court and a disc golf course.
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Disc golf?
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Yeah.
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I like to play disc golf with my friends.
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It's really fun.
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And after we finish playing disc golf, we usually go to the pizza restaurant.
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Oh, I see.
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How about schools?
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Are there very many schools?
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Let's see.
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No, there aren't very many.
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There is only one elementary school, one junior high school, and one high school.
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That's it.
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Interesting.
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Yeah, there aren't very many schools, but the town doesn't need more schools because there aren't very many people there.
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I see.
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Are there any mountains?
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No, the whole area is very flat.
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There are no mountains, but there are a lot of trees.
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In fact, there are trees on my town's sign, because my town is famous for all the trees on every street.
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Oh, wow!
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It sounds like a great city.

Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione

Questa lezione di conversazione di livello B1 si basa sul video “27 tháng 8, 2026”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: restaurant, movie, town, hometown, theater. Questo video contiene 90 frasi e 621 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 5:41. Chi parla lo fa lentamente, circa 109 parole al minuto, quindi c’è tempo per imitare ogni suono. Il 84% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare. 17 delle sue 90 frasi sono domande: un buon esercizio per l’intonazione interrogativa e le risposte brevi.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

Le 12 parole più avanzate del video, con pronuncia e significato:

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
hometown sostantivo/ˈhoʊmˌtaʊn/città di origine
disk sostantivo/dɪsk/disco
nightlife sostantivo/ˈnaɪtˌlaɪf/vita notturna
alley sostantivo/ˈæl.i/vicolo, calle
mall sostantivo/mɔːl/centro commerciale
burrito sostantivo/bəˈɹi.toʊ/burrito
nightclub sostantivo/ˈnʌɪtklʌb/notturno, night club
daytime sostantivo/ˈdeɪtaɪm/giornata, dì
skate sostantivo/skeɪt/pattina
countryside sostantivo/ˈkʌn.tɹiˌsaɪd/campagna
ski sostantivo/skiː/sci
swim verbo/swɪm/nuotare, natare

I phrasal verb che sentirai

ParolaSignificato
go through verboattraversare

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 12 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come aren't, isn't, doesn't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

  • Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: disk /dɪsk/, nightlife /ˈnaɪtˌlaɪf/, nightclub /ˈnʌɪtklʌb/, skate /skeɪt/, countryside /ˈkʌn.tɹiˌsaɪd/

Come esercitarsi con questo video

  1. Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
  2. Fai shadowing frase per frase a velocità normale, ripetendo ognuna finché il tuo ritmo coincide con quello di chi parla.
  3. Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come hometown, disk, nightlife.

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.

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