Pratica di Shadowing: 3 tháng 10, 2026 - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

Creazione lezione...
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A family wedding.
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I'm Kim.
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I'm with my family.
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It's a nice day.
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This is my sister.
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She's beautiful.
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This is my brother.
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He's eight.
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He's tall.
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This is my dad.
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He's tall too.
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And that's my grandma.
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She's funny.
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Look at my big flowers.
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Purple flowers, blue flowers and white flowers.
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Oh no, the wind, my flowers.
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Look, my grandpa, my mom, my dad and my grandma.
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Hooray!
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Thank you, grandpa.
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Now it's time for the wedding.
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Thank you.

Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This video has 21 sentences and 80 words to shadow. The speech runs for 1:02. The speaker talks slowly, about 78 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound.

Key vocabulary in this video

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

WordPronunciationMeaning
flower noun/ˈfloʊɚ/A reproductive structure in angiosperms (flowering plants), often conspicuously colourful and typically including sepals, petals, and either or both stamens…
grandma noun/ˈɡɹænmɑː/Grandmother.
grandpa noun/ˈɡɹæm.pɑː/grandfather.
purple noun/ˈpɝ.pl̩/A colour between red and blue; violet, though often closer to magenta.
tall adjective/tɔl/Having great vertical extent (usually reckoned from the bottom of the feet to the very top of the head) when standing. (For instance, somebody with a height of…
wedding noun/ˈwɛdɪŋ/A marriage ceremony; a ritual officially celebrating the beginning of a marriage.
sister noun/ˈsɪs.tɚ/A daughter of the same parents as another person; a female sibling.
wind noun/ˈwɪnd/Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure.

How to practise with this video

  1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
  2. Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
  3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like flower, grandma, grandpa.

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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