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Chapter 1 Thieves in the Forest
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Chapter 1 Thieves in the Forest
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Our story is about Ali Baba.
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A poor woodcutter in Persia.
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Ali Baba's brother is a rich merchant.
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His name is Kasim.
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One day, Ali Baba is working in the forest.
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Suddenly, he hears some men.
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They are coming nearer.
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He quickly goes behind a tree before the men arrive.
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There are 40 of them.
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He sees some treasure in their bags.
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They're thieves, he thinks.
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The thieves stand near some rocks.
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Their chief says, Open sesame!
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A door in the rock opens,
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and the men go into a cave.
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Later, the thieves come out.
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They say, Close, Sesame!
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And the door closes.
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Hmm, interesting.
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What's in that cave?
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Arlie Bubba thinks.
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I'd like to see.
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After the thieves leave, Ali Baba goes to the rocks.
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Open Sesame, he says.
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The door opens and he walks in.
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Wow! he cries in the treasure cave.
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What beautiful things!
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He takes some gold coins and leaves.
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Close sesame! he says.
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The cave door closes behind him.
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Back home, Ali Baba tells everything to his wife and son, Murad.
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Look at these coins!
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We're rich!
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He cries.
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How rich?
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His wife asks.
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She runs to Kasim's house.
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Can I borrow your scales?
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I want to weigh something.
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She tells Kasim's wife.
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Of course.
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Kasim's wife smiles.
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But what are you weighing?
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Oh, nothing important.
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Ali Baba's wife answers her.
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Kasim's wife thinks, That's not true.
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She quickly puts some wax on the scales.
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Later, Ali Baba's wife takes back the scales.
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Kasim's wife finds a gold coin on the wax.
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They're weighing gold, she thinks.
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They're richer than us.
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She tells Kasim.
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My brother's a poor woodcutter!
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Kasim cries angrily.
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How can he have lots of gold?
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I must learn more.
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Chapter 3.
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Kasim visits the cave.
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At Ali Baba's house, a young woman opens the door to Kasim.
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She's Morjana, Ali Baba's new servant.
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Kasim asks his brother, Where's this gold coin from?
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Ali Baba explains.
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Later, Kasim visits the cave.
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Open sesame, he says, and goes in.
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It's my treasure now, he cries.
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The cave door closes behind him.
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Open salt, he says when he wants to leave.
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But the cave door doesn't open.
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When the thieves arrive, they find Kasim.
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They kill him angrily.
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Cut his body into four pieces, their chief, Arshad, says.
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Do more people know about our cave?
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This dead body can scare them and stop their visits.
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Later, Ali Baba finds Kasim's body.
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He takes it back home.
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Perhaps the thieves can find and kill me now.
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He says.
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Help!
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What can I do?
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Kasim's very ill.
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Tell everybody.
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Morjana says.
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The cobbler, Baba Mustafa, can come and sew up Kasim's body.
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Then we can bury it.
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So, Morjana blindfolds Baba Mustafa.
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She brings him to Ali Baba's house.
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He sews up Kasim's body.
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Then Morjana blindfolds him and takes him back home.
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After that, the family buries Kasim.
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Now the thieves can't find me, Ali Baba thinks happily.
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Or can they?
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Chapter Four A thief in town.
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The next day, the thieves go back to the cave.
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Where's the dead body?
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They ask.
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A friend of his knows about our treasure cave and has the body.
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Ashard, their chief, says.
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We must find him at once.
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Go into town.
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Ashard tells Najid, one of the thieves.
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Perhaps you can learn something about the dead man there.
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In town, Najid visits the cobbler's shop.
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Baba Mustafa is speaking to a friend.
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So, she puts a blindfold on me,
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and we go to a house,
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and I sew up a dead body in four pieces there, he says.
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Najid gives two gold coins to the cobbler.
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Take me to the dead man's house, he says.
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Baba Mustafa is clever.
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He closes his eyes and remembers his steps.
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In the end, they arrive at Ali Baba's house.
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Here we are, the cobbler says.
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Najid puts a white mark on the door.
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I must tell Ashad about this,
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he thinks, and he leaves.
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Baba Mustafa walks slowly back to his shop.
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Soon after that, Mojana comes out.
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She sees the mark on Ali Baba's door.
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Hmm, somebody wants to mark our house, she thinks.
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Perhaps it's the thieves.
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What shall I do?
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Chapter 5 The Chief Arrives
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Mojana marks every door in the street.
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When Ashad arrives, he can't find Ali Baba's house.
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He visits the cobbler's shop and gives three gold coins to Baba Mustafa.
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The cobbler takes him to Ali Baba's house.
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Ashad looks carefully at it.
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He doesn't mark it.
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Mojana is watching through the window.
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Later, Ashad comes back in different clothes.
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He knocks on Ali Baba's door.
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I'm an oil merchant.
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I'm taking my oil to a town far away.
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Can I sleep here tonight?
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He says.
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Ali Baba is a good man.
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Of course, he answers.
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Leave your oil jars behind my house and come in.
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Ashad leaves the forty jars behind the house.
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One jar has oil in,
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but there are thieves in thirty-nine of the jars.
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When I knock on the jars,
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Ashad tells his men quietly,
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Come out and kill Ali Baba.
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Then he goes into the house.
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Later, Mojana visits the jars.
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She needs oil for her lamp.
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Is it time?
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The thieves ask.
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No, wait!
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She answers.
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She puts hot oil in the jars.
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and the thieves die suddenly.
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When Arshad comes and knocks on the jars, nobody answers him.
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Hey, my men are all dead!
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He cries.
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He leaves very quickly.
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Chapter 6 Pleather Morjana
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Some weeks later, Ashad comes back to town.
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Now he's wearing the clothes of a rich gold merchant.
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Ashad opens a new shop.
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Ali Baba's son, Murad, has Kasim's old shop across the street.
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Ashad and Murad are soon friends.
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Father, can my new friend come for dinner?
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Murad asks Ali Baba one day.
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Of course, Ali Baba says.
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Ali Baba doesn't recognize Arshad when he comes to the house for dinner.
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But when clever Mojana brings the dinner,
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she recognizes him at once.
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After dinner, Mojana dances for them.
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Suddenly, Arshad attacks Ali Baba with a knife.
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Morjana quickly attacks Ashad, and she kills him.
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After that, she explains everything.
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Morjana, you're the cleverest servant in all Persia.
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Persia, Ali Baba says.
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You must marry Murad and have some treasure too.
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Thank you, father, Murad and Morjana say.
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The two of them marry and they move into the next house in the street.
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In time they have many children,
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and they live there very happily for many years.

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In questa lezione impariamo l'inglese attraverso la storia di Ali Baba e i Quaranta Ladri. Vivrete un'avventura in Persia con Ali Baba, un povero taglialegna che scopre un tesoro segreto. Praticando le espressioni e il lessico di questa storia, migliorerete la vostra pronuncia e comprensione dell'inglese. L'obiettivo principale è conoscere nuovi vocaboli e frasi utili, e praticare la vostra abilità di shadow speak ascoltando il video e imitandone il ritmo.

Vocabolario e Frasi Chiave

  • Thieves - ladri
  • Forest - foresta
  • Treasure - tesoro
  • Open sesame - apriti sesamo
  • Close sesame - chiuditi sesamo
  • Woodcutter - taglialegna
  • Coins - monete
  • Cave - caverna

Consigli per la Pratica

Per rendere la vostra esperienza di apprendimento più efficace, provate a shadowing mentre guardate il video. Dato il ritmo deciso della narrazione, è fondamentale concentrarsi sulle pause e sul tono dell'oratore. Ecco alcune strategie per migliorare la vostra pratica:

  • Ascoltate attentamente il video almeno una volta senza interromperlo. Questo vi darà una sensazione generale della storia e del modo in cui le frasi sono costruite.
  • Rivedete alcune parti più velocemente. Il shadowspeak può aiutarvi a abituarvi alla pronuncia, quindi ripetete dopo l'oratore, cercando di imitare il suo ritmo e la sua intonazione.
  • Utilizzate le frasi chiave che avete appreso e cercate di crearne delle vostre in contesti diversi, magari improvvisando delle conversazioni o dei dialoghi che includano i vocaboli appena studiati.
  • Non abbiate paura di fermarvi e riascoltare le sezioni che trovate difficili, in modo da affinare la vostra pronuncia.

Con l'approccio corretto, imparare l'inglese con YouTube può essere un modo divertente e coinvolgente per migliorare le vostre abilità linguistiche. Ricordate, la chiave sta nell'impegno e nella pratica costante!

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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