Pratica di Shadowing: AC/DC Drummer Chris Slade Believes in One God for all Religions - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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Hello this is Chris Slade, drummer from ACDC and you're watching Bending Reality TV.
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So what's been your experience of life from the perspective of being a rock drummer?
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You know I've traveled a lot and especially on buses
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and things and planes and I've been doing this for about 45 years
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and the great thing with that is that you can read.
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So I used to read all sorts of esoteric books.
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I started off with martial arts in the mid 60s And that philosophy from the martial arts took me into meditation.
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I used to meditate on the road.
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I was also a vegetarian.
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I'm not anymore, but I was right through the 70s.
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And that meditation, anything that was Zen meditation,
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anything that was a mystery appealed to me.
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I did lots of martial arts such as Karate, Aikido, Jodo, Iaido which is sword drawing.
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I did Kyudo for about 12 years which is Japanese archery.
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And in the last few years I've done Tai Chi,
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which is a really fantastic, complete system.
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I was just talking about it to one of my friends who's thinking I've started it
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and I couldn't recommend that more highly.
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Tai Chi or Qi Gong is a wonderful practice.
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And that brings with it a different perspective to the rock world, if you like.
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Anything cosmic seems to be the huge mystery.
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And for many years I didn't know why I was doing it, but I was also interested on a very,
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very layman level in quantum physics.
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And I had no idea why I like quantum physics and spirituality.
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I just.. and today, these days, they're just coming together like that.
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quantum physics and spirituality, especially say Kabbalah said, that's where I met Michael by the way,
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was at the Kabbalah Center in Los Angeles.
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I've investigated many, many pathways.
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Kabbalah said 5,000 years ago, and it was written down, that there are 10 dimensions to reality.
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And I think it was five years ago that quantum physics agreed with that.
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So then I went, bingo!
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Now I know why I've been interested in quantum physics.
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The first book I read on quantum physics was The Dancing Wu Li Masters.
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Gary Zukov, I think, was the writer.
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And that explained it beautifully.
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So those sort of books I've been reading all my life.
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The first thing I saw, I'll never forget, was in Liverpool when I was about 18 or 19 is my guess.
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And it was late at night and I looked in the book and this word, this book was turned the wrong way around and I looked at this word and I thought, What is that word?
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And the word was Zen.
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And it was a book written by Christmas Humphreys, a British judge actually, who was head of the Buddhist society.
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And that word just absolutely fascinated me.
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What Zen?
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It doesn't even make sense.
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What is it?
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And that was my first taste of thinking.
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You can almost say I was attracted to that book because of past lives or something. Who knows?
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But in those days Zen was not a very popular subject.
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Nobody knew what Zen was back then.
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Mid 60s, you know, no way.
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I was brought up as a Christian in the Church of England.
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I would call myself more of a Buddhist today.
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And I think it doesn't matter what religion we should all get on anyway there is one God it's
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that God it doesn't matter whether you're Jewish or Afghani that
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that God is there and we can see it as we look into the universe I think.
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I went to Afghanistan actually and I looked up at the sky,
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this was about three years ago and I couldn't believe what I saw.
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I've sailed a little bit and I've seen the sky
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and sea on the mountain top was just unbelievable there wasn't
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a point between the stars it was like an ocean of
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stars unbelievable I've never seen anything like it not even in the movies
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so I'm sort of waffling on a little bit here
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but the Zen thing led me into meditation as I said I used to meditate twice a day.
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I've done a lot of self work.

Perché esercitarti a parlare con questo video?

Questo video è un'ottima risorsa per chi vuole migliorare l'inglese con i video, grazie al contesto autentico e alla lingua parlata naturalmente di Chris Slade. La conversazione tratta di argomenti personali e filosofici, offrendo un mix di vocabolo colloquiale e concetti più complessi, perfetto per esercitarsi nella shadowing in inglese. Attraverso la ripetizione delle frasi e l'imitazione dell'intonazione, potrai rafforzare la fluidità e la confidenza nel parlare, oltre a capire come le emozioni e le riflessioni si esprimono verbalmente.

Grammatica e espressioni nel contesto

Ecco alcuni punti chiave da analizzare:

  • "I used to read all sorts of esoteric books": L'uso di "used to" per descrivere abitudini passate è fondamentale. In italiano, si traduce con "solito/a fare", e è utile per parlare di esperienze passate che non continueranno. Esercitati a ripetere frasi come questa per memorizzare la struttura.
  • "I've been doing this for about 45 years": Il present perfect continuous esprime un'azione iniziata nel passato e ancora in corso. Qui, Slade sottolinea la durata della sua carriera, e questa forma è essenziale per descrivere progetti o abitudini lunghe. Prova a ripetere la frase, concentrandoti sulla pronuncia di "been doing".
  • "I couldn't recommend that more highly": L'espressione "couldn't recommend... more highly" è un modo raffinato per dire che qualcosa è estremamente consigliabile. È utile in contesti formali o informali per esprimere apprezzamento, e il shadowing ti aiuterà a capire l'intonazione enfatica.

Trappole di pronuncia comuni

Nel video, alcuni vocaboli possono creare difficoltà: "esoteric" (pronunciato /ˌiːsəˈterɪk/) ha una "e" lunga all'inizio e una "t" soft, facile da confondere con "exotic". "Kabbalah" (/kəˈbɑːlə/) ha una "a" aperta alla fine, diversa dalla pronuncia italiana. Inoltre, l'accento britannico di Slade influisce su parole come "about" (/əˈbaʊt/), dove la "ou" si pronuncia come "au". Per migliorare la pronuncia inglese, esercitati a ripetere queste parole seguendo l'intonazione del speaker, usanto la tecnica del shadowspeak per imitare il ritmo e la melodia.

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.