Pratica di Shadowing: سافرت إلى أكثر جزيرة مزدحمة بالعالم - بدون قوانين 🇰🇪 - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

Creazione lezione...
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An island located in the largest lake in Africa.
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The police took us...
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A thousand people live on this island.
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Do you see this island?
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It is the cause of a major dispute between two countries, Kenya and Uganda, and may cause war between them.
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Everyone is claiming this island.
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On the map you can see that the border between the two countries is very close to this island, which makes both Uganda and Tanzania claim it.
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Britain drew the borders.
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But why does everyone want this island and not the entire lake?
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We arrived in the capital, Nairobi.
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We are going to a small town called Kisumu.
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We are going to the city of Kisumu, and from there we will drive for 4 hours to reach this island, which is located on the border with Uganda and causes conflict there.
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Then we drove for 4 hours to reach the shore of the lake, where we would search for a boat to take us to this island.
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We will take a boat ride for another 2 hours to reach Migingo Island.
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This lake is the source of the Nile.
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This entire village works in fishing.
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This is Lake Victoria, named after the Queen of Britain.
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This lake is the source of the Nile River, which starts from here and symbolizes the lifeline of Egypt and Sudan.
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We are going there and we will sleep there.
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They say there are pirates, pirates who come from Uganda.
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In the name of Allah.
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You can see it from afar like a mirage.
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There are huge waves.
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I don't know if this boat will hold up.
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Turns out it's very far, 26 km away.
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Okay, guys, we've reached the island now, this is it.
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It's getting dark, so I don't know how they'll welcome us.
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They say there is Kenyan police here.
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There are more than 1000 people living on this island.
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It's very small.
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I don't know how they live like this.
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You will see lights around the island, these are traps that attract small fish.
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Oh, we have arrived!
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When we stepped onto the island, they made us turn off the cameras, took us back to the boat, and sent us to another security island next to Migingo, whose residents are Kenyans and Ugandans, occupying it and controlling who enters and who leaves.
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We paid $250 just to enter this island.
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There is another island next to it used just for security.
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This money is divided between the island's leaders, who are Kenyans and Ugandans.
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Look, they're having a night party.
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They live here alone.
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There are 1000 people on this island.
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They are Ugandans and Kenyans, all living together here.
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They have a DJ.
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These are mostly fishermen, but where will we sleep tonight?
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This is a supermarket, and they say it's not the only one, there are more here.
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Did you see how they cook? They’re all one community, Ugandans and Kenyans united against the government and taking money from the people who come here.
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We will sleep here.
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There are storms here all around you, water and the sound of strong winds!
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Okay, these are our neighbors from Tanzania.
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Welcome. Look, it's by the lake!
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It's so deep!
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This is the real travel experience!
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Look at this room!
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It's a storm that will continue all night long, the sound of the sea is loud.
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Look, this is a pool hall.
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Ugandans occupy the island.
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It's too late, it's 10 o'clock now.
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We will sleep now because tomorrow morning the fishermen will come here.
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You won’t guess what happened to us.
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We docked the boat outside but then we couldn’t find it, it’s gone!
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it vanished!
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We'll try to look for it tomorrow.
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His boat is lost, and there’s no way of knowing which country it’s in now: Tanzania, Uganda, or Kenya!
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Here... is the men's section where they shower every morning, and there is the women's section.
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The island's area is 200 square metres, about half a football field.
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Now we are waiting for the fishermen to come, as they have all left the island and they will now return with today's catch.
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They call it the floating turtle, it’s made of corrugated metal huts stuck together.
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This island has no laws, they make their own laws, and you don’t need a visa to come here!
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Everyone has their own business here.
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God bless. Our boat was lost and he came here to the police station to file a report.
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Let's see what happens, apparently we'll be stuck here and won't be able to leave.
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Hey, Abdulrahman!
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-Peace be upon you. -Peace and Allah's mercy be upon you.
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Abdulrahman has a company.
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Everyone who comes here has a company, they don't come alone or with one boat.
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Abdulrahman!
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He owns a company and he is Somali.
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This large Nile fish is exported for millions of dollars, and its price has increased by 50% in recent years and is estimated at $300 per kilogram in international markets...
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They brought today’s catch.
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which is the reason why everyone is fighting for this fish.

Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione

Questa lezione di conversazione di livello B2 si basa sul video “سافرت إلى أكثر جزيرة مزدحمة بالعالم - بدون قوانين 🇰🇪”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: island, boat, lake, Ugandans, Kenyan. Questo video contiene 79 frasi e 841 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 15:17. Il 88% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è facile da seguire.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

Le 15 parole più avanzate del video, con pronuncia e significato:

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
fisherman sostantivo/ˈfɪʃ.ɚ.mən/pescatore, pescatrice
occupy verbo/ˈɑkjəpaɪ/occupare
locate verbo/ˈloʊˌkeɪt/localizzare
pirate sostantivo/ˈpaɪɹət/pirata, corsaro
corrugated aggettivoondulato
kilogram sostantivo/ˈkɪləɡɹæm/chilogrammo, chilo
mirage sostantivo/mɪˈɹɑːʒ/miraggio
symbolize verbo/ˈsɪmbəlaɪz/simbolizzare
vanish verbo/ˈvænɪʃ/sparire, svanire
metre sostantivo/ˈmiːtəɹ/metro
supermarket sostantivo/ˌsupɚˈmɑɹkət/supermercato
hut sostantivo/hʌt/capanna
turtle sostantivo/ˈtɝtl̩/tartaruga, testuggine
float verbo/fləʊt/galleggiare
dock sostantivo/dɑk/molo

I phrasal verb che sentirai

ParolaSignificato
hold up verboritardare, rallentare
turn off verbospegnere
turn out verborisultare

Frasi da ripetere

Frasi brevi e complete del video che puoi riutilizzare nella conversazione di tutti i giorni:

  • Do you see this island?
  • I don't know if this boat will hold up.
  • I don't know how they live like this.
  • These are mostly fishermen, but where will we sleep tonight?
  • Did you see how they cook?

La grammatica di questo video

Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:

StrutturaNel video
Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fais located · is divided · is lost
Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosaisland, which makes · island, which is · people who come
Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adessowe've reached · have arrived · has increased

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 14 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come don't, they're, we'll. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

  • I suoni “sh” e “zh”: fisherman /ˈfɪʃ.ɚ.mən/, mirage /mɪˈɹɑːʒ/, vanish /ˈvænɪʃ/

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 fisherman, occupy, locate.

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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