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Hi, my name is Marissa, and welcome to my source materials.
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Have you guys ever seen this?
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Okay, this looks like just a regular box, but it's not.
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This is a vanity.
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Growing up, I wanted one of these so badly, but my mom wasn't really into buying me girly things,
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so I would just grow up playing cards with my little brother.
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Now that I have adult money, I just want myself one.
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I just love all the little compartments.
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There's a drawer, and then you just keep opening.
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There's this, it keeps going.
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I don't know who approved of this many drawers, but it's great.
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I love the little surprises.
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Like, you guys would not believe this. And here, too.
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I just really love objects that like reveal themselves.
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And I think as a designer, good interfaces don't always reveal themselves at once.
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Like they kind of reward curiosity.
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I love designing moments where people are like, wait, there's something else.
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Wait, there's another layer to it.
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It's like a little good like Easter egg moment.
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It's the anticipation.
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That's what it is.
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I love a good buildup.
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I first got this book because I just really like the green.
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Very performative of me, I know.
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But it turned out to be one of my favorite books.
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I really like this book because there have always been women building cool things in tech.
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Mindy is such an amazing person.
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I love that she cares about the internet culture enough to just document everything.
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Most of us women don't always end up in history books and I love that this book is the opposite of that.
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Okay, next item.
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This has a very special place in my heart.
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So this is my elementary school lunchbox, and it's called Pinto in Thai, which means like three -tiered lunchbox.
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There was this sense of like surprise and like anticipation.
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What do I get to eat today?
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And it kind of just depends on my grandma, and I just love the sound of this rice and stir -fried as a top.
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And then the middle one, sometimes she would pack soup or noodles or a side of vegetables.
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Bottom layer is my favorite.
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She would pack a sweet treat on my lucky days.
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I realize I don't like my food touching because of this.
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Yeah.
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And then this next book is The Tree of Coats.
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This book couldn't exist as a PDF file, and that's the reason why I love this book so much.
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There are words cut out, and it's so delicate.
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You have to be so gentle flipping through the pages.
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It's also such a fun take on negative space as well.
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So I've been into hardware recently.
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This is a makeup cyber deck.
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I put grass on here just so that, you know, touch grass.
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It has a keyboard, a mouse, and I'm gonna put a screen on here.
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So just imagine there's a screen here for now.
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Cyberdeck is kind of like an upcycled computer.
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You take apart the computer that you know, and then you put it into an unexpected medium.
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It's like a little eyeshadow palette inspired by that little vanity box.
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And then I also have a drawer with all the makeup brushes.
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I've just been seeing so many cool girls building Cyberdex.
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I'm like, I want to learn how to do that.
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Once I figure out the electronics, which is the hardest part, this is the brain of the Cyberdex.
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It's a Raspberry Pi.
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It's the brain of the operation.
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So I need to figure out how I want to mount it on.
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I'm going to put a Zoom meeting on here.
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I can do my makeup and like take my meetings at the same time.
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I also started watching like
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Totally Spies not too long ago.
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And they have like a little makeup compact and I would call their boss on their makeup compact.
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So I was like, why not?
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Why don't I?
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Yeah.
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I love it though.
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Like I just needed a break from like vibe coding.
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I want to be able to touch things again and like get my hands dirty again.
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Don't mind me, I'm just gonna plan my next side quest on here.
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This book is about how to wrap five eggs.
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It really changed my perspective on like packaging design.
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You have to solve so many problems at once.
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Like how do you keep something cool?
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How do you keep something warm?
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Like how do you make sure it commutes well?
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I just love flipping through these pages.
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It's just... So pretty.
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All of these packaging are like natural materials too.
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Mostly bamboo, like wood and ceramics.
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Yeah, I'm such a hoarder when it comes to like packaging.
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And that's when I know it's good packaging design because I don't want to throw them away.
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Let me introduce you to my pencil case.
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Every button does different thing.
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This one opens a pencil sharpener.
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You can sharpen your pencil.
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And then this is also a compartment.
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Sometimes I would put like tringets in here, friendship bracelet necklace situation.
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And this would be my class schedule.
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But then sometimes I would put like cheat codes on here.
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This is my favorite book of all time.
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I read it every time I need a good cry.
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This one is about enabling the dreams of others by Randy Pouch.
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He was a professor at Carnegie Mellon.
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He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in his 40s.
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Before he passed, he gave his last lecture, which is also the title of the book.
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It turned out that this whole lecture was for his children to hold on to before he passed.
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It's so emotional, but not in a depressing way.
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I always feel like hopeful after I finish reading it.
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Have a good cry and then go on and like design
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and build like the most ridiculous idea I've had in my head for a long time.
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This tear off calendar, my grandparents always had one in their house.
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Every day they would tear off a page.
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It's so satisfying.
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I just feel like it's so special that you get to hold a day in your hand.
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Everything is on Google Calendar, and it's just another day.
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It just disappears into the land of Google Calendar.
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When I wake up in a really bad mood, sometimes I would tear it off.
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I would demonstrate.
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I would tear it off.
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I would be like this.
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I would crumble the page.
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I would toss it. so
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione si basa sul video “9 Designs That Inspired Meshtimes, One of Tech's Most Creative Minds”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: makeup, packaging, tear, page. Questo video contiene 115 frasi e 1101 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 7:22. Chi parla ha un ritmo naturale di circa 150 parole al minuto, vicino a una conversazione quotidiana. Solo il 79% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è impegnativo.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| package sostantivo | /ˈpæk.ɪd͡ʒ/ | pacco |
| tear verbo | /tɛɹ/ | strappare, dilaniare |
| calendar sostantivo | /ˈkæl.ən.də/ | calendario |
| pencil sostantivo | /ˈpɛnsəl/ | matita, lapis |
| drawer sostantivo | /dɹɔɹ/ | cassetto |
| reveal verbo | /ɹɪˈviːl/ | rivelare, gettare la maschera |
| layer sostantivo | /ˈleɪ̯ɚ/ | strato |
| grass sostantivo | /ɡɹɑːs/ | erba, graminacea |
| flip verbo | /flɪp/ | capovolgere, spadellare |
| lecture sostantivo | /ˈlɛk.t͡ʃə/ | conferenza, lezione |
| compact aggettivo | /kəmˈpækt/ | compatto |
| anticipation sostantivo | /ænˌtɪs.əˈpeɪ.ʃən/ | anticipazione |
| vanity sostantivo | /ˈvænəti/ | vanità |
| egg sostantivo | /ɛɡ/ | uovo |
| ridiculous aggettivo | /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/ | ridicolo |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Significato |
|---|---|
| figure out verbo | scoprire, rendersi conto |
| grow up verbo | crescere |
| cut out verbo | smetterla, finirla |
| turn out verbo | risultare |
Frasi da ripetere
Frasi brevi e complete del video che puoi riutilizzare nella conversazione di tutti i giorni:
- Have you guys ever seen this?
- There's a drawer, and then you just keep opening.
- What do I get to eat today?
- How do you keep something warm?
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | have always been · I've been · I've had |
| Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosa | Thai, which means · electronics, which is · lecture, which is |
| Verbo + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — i verbi seguiti dalla forma in -ing | keep opening · love designing · started watching |
| Superlativi the -est / the most … — il massimo o il minimo di un gruppo | the hardest · the most ridiculous |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 19 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come don't, I'm, I've. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: anticipation /ænˌtɪs.əˈpeɪ.ʃən/, friendship /ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/, brush /bɹʌʃ/, sharpen /ˈʃɑɹpən/, sharpener /ˈʃɑː(ɹ)pənə(ɹ)/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: anticipation /ænˌtɪs.əˈpeɪ.ʃən/, ridiculous /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/, elementary /ˌɛləˈmɛntəɹi/, unexpected /ʌnɪkˈspɛktɪd/, electronics /ɪˌlɛkˈtɹɑ.nɪks/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: hardware /ˈhɑɹdˌwɛɹ/, hopeful /ˈhoʊpfl̩/, hoarder /ˈhɔɹdɚ/
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: package /ˈpæk.ɪd͡ʒ/, grass /ɡɹɑːs/, flip /flɪp/, compact /kəmˈpækt/, compartment /kəmˈpɑɹtmənt/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: package /ˈpæk.ɪd͡ʒ/, calendar /ˈkæl.ən.də/, compact /kəmˈpækt/, anticipation /ænˌtɪs.əˈpeɪ.ʃən/, vanity /ˈvænəti/
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 package, tear, calendar.
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.