Pratica di Shadowing: American English Connected Reading | Complaining About the Road - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

Creazione lezione...
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Hey, what's up?
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It's Alex.
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Today, let's talk about the connected sounds in the short text
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where you're complaining about the quality of the road in your town.
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Let's take a look.
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I live in a place where they care about bikes a lot.
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I live in a, live in a.
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So this i in in basically gets reduced, and the uh gets connected to in.
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I live in a place where they care about bikes.
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Care about bikes.
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That T in about turns into a glottal stop.
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Where they care about bikes a lot.
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That T in lot also turns into a glottal stop because it's the end of the sentence.
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I live in a place where they care about bikes a lot.
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The roads are wide and flat and they're paved smooth.
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The roads are wide and flat.
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So here the road sir, we don't write apostrophe re but we do take out
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that ah sound in our the roads are sir the roads are wide
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and flat now here wide and Flat if I say
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that really quickly you don't really hear any of the individual sounds in a Md
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and gets reduced to a single nasal release release n.
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Widen flat.
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Widen flat.
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Now if I slow down a little bit I'll say widen flat.
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Widen flat.
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Widen flat.
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Widen flat.
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So I have a little bit of a hint of that vowel but that D is definitely gone.
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Widen flat and they're paved smooth. And there.
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So now I'm starting a section of the sentence with and so I'll say the eh vowel there. And there.
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I won't say the D though.
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And they're paved smooth.
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That D in paved gets reduced quite a bit before the S.
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And they're paved smooth.
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Paved smooth.
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There's a lot of space on the side of the road.
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There's a lot of.
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There's a lot of space.
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So a lot of, you can just think of it as combining into a lot of.
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There's a lot of space.
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There's a lot of space on the side of the road. On the. On the.
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We connect the N and the TH. On the. On the.
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My tongue goes between my teeth when I say on the instead of behind the teeth, which is what we normally do for an N sound.
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On the side of the road.
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Side the. Of the.
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There's no v in of anymore.
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Side the.
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Side the road.
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Space on the side of the road to ride your bike.
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Road d-d-d.
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The word to gets reduced right here very, very much.
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Road to.
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Road to ride your bike.
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Now, ride your turns into ride j-er.
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The vowel in your changes.
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Ride j-er.
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And the consonant y-er turns into a j-er after this d.
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Ride your bike.
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There's a lot of space on the side of the road to ride your bike.
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The only thing I don't like.
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The only, yonly.
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I add a little yuh sound there.
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The only.
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The only thing I don't like.
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Don't, don't like.
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I have a glottal stop there for the T in don't.
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If I say it really quickly, I could say don't like.
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The only thing I don't like.
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Don't like.
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Don't like.
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And in that case, there's no glottal stop or T.
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It just goes don't like.
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However, if you say this a little slower, it sounds strange, because we're used to hearing no glottal stop, no T, only in very fast speech.
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So if you say don't like, don't like, and stretch it out and say it very slowly, it can sound a little bit strange.
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The only thing I don't like, or don't like, the only thing I don't like is how many rocks and nails.
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Rocks and nails.
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So here we take off the D in and and reduce that first vowel.
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Rocks and nails there are on the road.
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Rocks and nails there are on the road.
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Now here I'm stressing there are, there are.
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I don't, the only thing I don't like is how many rocks and nails there are, there are on the road.
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I can never connect this into there-er.
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I can in other types of sentences, but in this sentence pattern, the only thing I don't like is how many blah blah blah there are.
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The only thing I know is how many blah blah blah there are.
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In this situation, I can never connect there-er.
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The only thing I don't like is how many rocks and nails there are, there are, on the road.
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On the road.
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On the road.
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Seriously, it's crazy.
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There must be dozens of nails.
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There must be dozens of nails. Must be.
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There's no T there.
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Must be turns into must be.
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There must be dozens of nails along the roads.
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Dozens of nails.
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Now that of nails could be of nails or a nails.
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You could reduce it and take out that v sound.
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There must be dozens of nails along the roads I ride on.
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The roads I ride on.
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ZI.
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Connect I to roads.
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Along the roads I ride on.
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I've gotten two flat tires.
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I've gotten.
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Gotten.
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I've gotten.
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There's a glottal stop there.
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Gotten.
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It's not a T.
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It's not gotten.
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It's gotten.
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I've gotten two flat tires.
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Flat tires.
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The T in flat and the T in tires connects together.
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I've gotten two flat tires in two months riding here.
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Months is a difficult word for a lot of people to say.
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All you need to do is take out the TH.
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Months.
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Months.
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That's how we say it every day.
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Months.
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Two months riding here.
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If you ride fast, if ya. If ya.
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So here U turns into ya.
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If you ride fast, there's no way to see the nails.
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No way to, d, d.
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That too, when it's used as part of a verb, reduces down to d.
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There's no way to see the nails until it's too late.
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Late.
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We finally end with a glottal stop T.
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Late normally ends with a T, but at the end of the sentence, we turn it into a glottal stop.
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Too late.
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If you like this kind lesson, remember I've got even longer and even more detailed pronunciation lessons
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that break down all the different rules I've discovered in many years of research.
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These lessons are available at the links below and in the comments.
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I'll see you there.
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All right, now I'll read the whole thing slowly but still with all the natural connected speech rules.
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It sounds a little funny because these rules only ever happen in fast, natural speed speech, but you can still practice with the slower version.
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After that, I'll read it at a normal speed.
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There must be dozens of nails along the roads I ride on.
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I've gotten two flat tires in two months riding here.
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If you ride fast, there's no way to see the nails until it's too late.
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Alright, here we go with normal speed.
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I live in a place where they care about bikes a lot.
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The roads are wide and flat and they're paved smooth.
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There's a lot of space on the side of the road to ride your bike.
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The only thing I don't like is how many rocks and nails there are on the road.
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Seriously, it's crazy.
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There must be dozens of nails along the roads I ride on.
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I've gotten two flat tires in two months riding here.
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If you ride fast, there's no way to see the nails until it's too late.

Contesto e Sfondo

Nel video di oggi, l'insegnante Alex esplora l'uso di suoni connessi nel contesto delle lamentele riguardanti la qualità delle strade in una città americana. Il dialogo evidenzia non solo l'importanza della comunicazione quotidiana in inglese, ma anche come la pronuncia e l'intonazione possono variare in situazioni reali. L'approccio dinamico di Alex rende questo argomento molto accessibile, fornendo spunti utili per chi desidera migliorare la propria pratica di conversazione in inglese.

Top 5 Frasi per la Comunicazione Quotidiana

  • I live in a place where they care about bikes a lot. (Vivo in un posto dove si prendono molto cura delle bici.)
  • The roads are wide and flat and they're paved smooth. (Le strade sono larghe e piatte e sono asfaltate in modo liscio.)
  • There's a lot of space on the side of the road. (C'è molto spazio ai lati della strada.)
  • Care about bikes. (Prendersi cura delle bici.)
  • On the side of the road. (Ai lati della strada.)

Guida Passo dopo Passo per il Shadowing

Per affrontare le difficoltà di questo video e migliorare la tua abilità linguistica, segui questa guida passo dopo passo per il shadowing in inglese:

  1. Ascolta attentamente: Prima di tutto, ascolta il video senza ripetere. Concentrati sui suoni connessi e sull'intonazione di Alex.
  2. Ripeti frasi chiave: Esegui il shadow speech ripetendo le frasi chiave, come "I live in a place where they care about bikes." Presta attenzione ai dettagli come la riduzione dei suoni.
  3. Pratica la connessione dei suoni: Usa una tecnica chiamata shadowspeaks per connettere le parole come "a lot of" in "a lot of space," unendo i suoni fluidamente.
  4. Fai attenzione ai dettagli: Nota come i suoni finali delle parole si connettono o si riducono, ad esempio, il 'D' in "paved" diventa meno pronunciato. Allenati a farlo in modo naturale.
  5. Registra e ascolta: Registrati mentre pratichi e poi riascolta le tue registrazioni. Questo ti aiuterà a identificare dove puoi migliorare.

Utilizzando queste tecniche, puoi rendere la tua pratica di conversazione in inglese più efficace e molto più naturale. Non dimenticare che la costanza è fondamentale per migliorare nel shadowing in inglese.

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.